on entrepreneurship, is assembling top flight entrepreneurs and venture
capitalists to lead a full-day interactive crash course on growing
innovative businesses. The Venture Voice Startup Workshop takes place on
June 26 in lower Manhattan. More information and registration can be
found at http://www.venturevoice.com/workshop/
Speakers include:
- Dick Costolo, the founder and CEO of leading RSS management firm
FeedBurner
- Scott Heiferman, the founder and CEO of Meetup.com, a global
non-partisan platform that helps people organize local real-world
gatherings
- David Hornik of August Capital, $1.3 billion venture capital firm
that's invested in Six Apart and VideoEgg among many others
- Jeanne Sullivan, the founder & co-chairman of StatVest Partners, a
$150 million venture capital firm that's funded NetSuite and BlueStreak
among many others
- Tom Szaky, co-founder and CEO of TerraCycle, producer of the worlds
first product made from and packaged in waste (now distributed by Home
Depot)
The Workshop will highlight the entrepreneurial resurgence currently
occurring in New York while adding the perspective of entrepreneurs
throughout the county. Participants will have the opportunity to
interact with the speakers and work though their business challenges.
It will also address many of the recent shifts in the startup economy,
such as the changing need for venture capital, creative bootstrapping
methods and team building in times of extreme growth.
The Workshop will be moderated by Venture Voice founder and executive
producer Gregory Galant. "We're excited about digging below the surface
and uncovering what it really takes to rapidly grow a startup," said
Galant, who is also the CEO of podcast advertising firm RadioTail.
Venture Voice, just a year old come June, has benefited from the rapid
rise of podcasting and the entrepreneurial passion it has ignited. It
has claimed a spot in iTunes' list of top business podcasts and has
interviewed business mavericks including John Bogle, the founder of The
Vanguard Group.
"Entrepreneurs rely upon Venture Voice to hear how to take their
startups to the next level," said venture capitalist and Workshop
speaker David Hornik. "I look forward to helping young companies grow at
the Venture Voice Startup Workshop."
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Website: http://www.venturevoice.com/workshop/
AndhraNews.net News for May 15, 2006