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What Investors Really Want to See In Your Business Plan
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Meeting Overview:
The business plan is your primary vehicle for conveying an organized thought process to investors about your business, team, and pathway to success. Entrepreneurs need well-conceived business plans to raise capital and grow their businesses.
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Jerry Bird,
VP MTDC
Massachusetts Technology Development Corporation |
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Joe Caruso,
Angel Investor with Common Angels, Walnut,
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David Hendren,
Managing Director/Founder of Catalyst Health
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Alan Silver,
Part-time CFO for 50 tech start-ups over
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Meeting Site and Cost:
5:15 PM Pre-meeting Dinner
Bertucci's Restaurant
475 Winter St.,(exit 27B off Route 128), Waltham, MA ("pay-as-you-go")
7:00 - 10:00PM Meeting Presentation
Conference Center
Forefront Center for Meetings and Conferences
404 Wyman Street, Waltham, MA
There is a $20.00 fee, non ENET members.
No reservations are necessary for either the meeting or dinner
Click here for directions and a map to the dinner and meeting
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Jerry Bird, VP - MTDC www.MTDC.com
MTDC is an early-stage VC firm for Massachusetts technology start-ups. Since 1980 it has invested over $60 million in over 114 companies. Investments are typically in the $250K-$500K range.
Jerry Bird has over 19 years of investing and financial experience. Prior to joining MTDC he was President of Claflin Capital Management and a partner at Brook Venture Partners and Nova MedVentures. He was on the boards of e-Travel which was sold to Oracle, Andover.net which went public in 1999 and then merged with VA Linux, LinkSoft Technologies which was purchased by Quadramed, Nexcen Technologies which was purchased by UCMS, and Bitpipe which was recently purchased by TechTarget. He received an MBA degree from the Tuck School at Dartmouth.
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Joe Caruso, Angel Investor and coach for CEOs www.BantamGroup.com
Joe Caruso is a principal in Walnut Ventures, a member of Common Angels, and a Managing Partner of Brookwood Partners – all angel investments groups for early stage companies. He has served as mentor, coach, and personal advisor for CEO’s and entrepreneurs for the last 17 years at Bantam Group. He was CEO at Cyborg Corporation and has served as interim CEO for companies in need of strategic change. He has been a Director and active investor in Boston MicroMachines, Metrisa, MicroE Systems, and TimeBlaster. He has an MBA degree from Harvard University.
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David Hendren, Managing Director/Founder � Catalyst Health and Technology Partners www.CatalystPartners.com
Catalyst is an early-stage VC firm for health care, life sciences, and technology ventures.
David Hendren co-founded Catalyst in 1999 and focuses on healthcare investments. He has led investments in EndoVia Medical, Seedling Enterprises, GI Dynamics, and LumeRx. He also serves on the Board of the Slater Center for Biomedical Technology. Prior to co-founding Catalyst, Hendren was a corporate lawyer, most recently as a partner of Peabody & Arnold, where his clients included start-ups involved with health care and technology. He received a law degree from Northwestern University.
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Alan Silver, Partime CFO, www.PartimeCFO.com
Alan Silver has been the part-time CFO for 50 technology start-ups over the last 10 years. At Andover.net he was the part-time CFO from when the company had fewer than 10 employees until just 5 months before the company went public. He has an MSM degree from the MIT Sloan School of Management, is Treasurer of the IEEE Boston Entrepreneurs� Network, and is an occasional panelist at MIT Enterprise Forum Start-up Clinics.
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