ENET: Alternative Sources of Funding
WHEN
- October 7, 2008 5:15 PM - 10:00 PM
WHERE
- Emerging Enterprise Center at Foley Hoag
- Bay Colony Corporate Center, North Entrance
- 1000 Winter Street - Suite 4000
- Waltham, MA 02451
- Map
DESCRIPTION
This panel will focus on getting initial money from non-traditional sources when VCs and angels will not help and friends and family are tapped out. The panelists will speak from experience to show you how they have used SBIRs and governmental grants, strategic partnering and customer funded development.
Investors want to see something before they invest. Yet it takes money to make your company into something to interest investors. It is a catch-22. This panel offers techniques to show you how to break out of that conundrum - to take your company from nothing to something, and to do so without VC or angel funding.
5:15 PM Pre-meeting Dinner at Bertucci's Restaurant, 475 Winter St., (exit 27B off Route 128), Waltham, MA ("pay-as-you-go")
7:00 - 10:00PM Meeting Presentation at Emerging Enterprise Center
PANELISTS:
John Davis, General Manager, SBIR Resource Center
Richard W. DeVaul Ph.D., President & CEO, AWare Technologies
Xiaoyu Tian, Ph.D., Co-Founder, BioHermes www.biohermes.com
MODERATOR: Michael S. Chester, Chairman of the IEEE Boston Entrepreneurs' Network, Serial Entrepreneur, President, International Manufacturing Consultants
COST: The meetings are free for ENET members and $20.00 for nonmembers