InNUvation

Founder and Managing Director of Illinois Innovation Accelerator Fund a $10M seed stage VC fund
Jacobs 160
Monday April 7th from 5:15-6:15

Come listen to Kellogg alumnus, David Weinstein ‘00, talk about his journey to helping found and serve as the managing director for the Illinois Innovation Accelerator Fund, a $10MM seed stage venture capital fund in Chicago.  David will talk about some of the lessons he learned along the way and also offer advice to aspiring entrepreneurs and students trying to maximize their school experience.  David will also discuss the importance of having sales experience and a strong network, and how they proved invaluable in his career.

Northwestern’s university-wide entrepreneurship competition presents…

Entrepreneurship Social
When: Tuesday, February 26, 6pm-8pm
Location: Cohen Commons (L482), Tech Institute
Looking to be part of a winning business plan? Searching for people to help launch your business plan? Meet other students interested in entrepreneurship at this event!

Speaker Series: Daphne Mazarakis (Founder of Tula Foods)
When: Thursday, February 28, 5:15pm-6:15pm
Location: Jacobs 165 (Kellogg)
Hear Daphne’s story about starting a food company. She will talk about her decision to become an entrepreneur and her recent experiences with fundraising.

Selling Skills Workshop
When: Saturday, March 1, 10am-12pm
Location: Jacobs 101 (Kellogg)
Learn how to pitch your business idea to gain investors and customers.

Come meet, hear, and chat with Steve Olechowski, an NU alum whose company, Feedburner, was recently acquired by Google. Learn about how his struggles, how he did, and how you can do it, too!

This event is to promote the new Principles of Entrepreneurship Class being offered this Spring in a joint effort between the Business Institutions Program and the Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences Department (IEMS395 & BIP390). This class will cover the main principles and basics of entrepreneurship and of starting a business.

This event is being co-sponsored by BIP, IEMS, InNUvation, and ISBE (the Institute for Student Business Education).

This even is open to both undergraduates and graduate students alike.

Food will be available.

When: Wednesday, February 20, 2008, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Where: Ford Building, ITW Auditorium (1-350)

Northwestern’s university-wide entrepreneurship competition presents…

Team Building Event

LOOKING to be part of a winning business idea?
SEARCHING for people to join your team?

When: Wednesday, January 30, 7:30-9:30PM
Where: Prairie Moon, 1502 Sherman Ave, Evanston, IL

Light appetizers provided.

We’ll have booths set up by interest to help you find the ideal group:
Hi-tech, Retail, Clean Energy, Biotech, & Social Entrepreneurship

http://nuvc.innuvation.org

Northwestern’s university-wide entrepreneurship competition presents…

Finance Workshop

Taught By
Bhavan Suri

Learn how to build sound financials for your business plan.

Bhavan is an exciting and experienced entrepreneur, having co-founded Elytics, an enterprise software company and worked with Answerthink and OCA Ventures. He also is on the Board of Advisors of Next Step Technologies, CoboTech Inc, the Aspire Group, Liquid Pixels, and the One Acre Fund. Bhavan is a graduate of Kellogg and Brown University, and currently is an Associate Analyst at William Blair.

When: Saturday, Februrary 2, 10am-12pm
Where: Jacobs Center (Kellogg), Room 101

Free lunch provided.

http://nuvc.innuvation.org