Topics:
* Strategies for starting up and getting far with little or no money.
* Real-life techniques that are working for other entrepreneurs and founders.
* Why, in today's environment, getting far with little/no money can be the difference between success and failure.
* Equity-strapping: getting people to work for equity.
* Bartering for services,
* Foregoing the office (running a company in the cloud).

Moderator:
* Joe Chin, Founder and CEO of SourcePad (former founder/CEO of Guidester, Diadem, and JEV)

Panelists (alphabetic order):
* Elaine Bolle, President of ClassifEye (former President/CEO of Government Payment Service, and also of Archex)
* Ramesh Haridas, Partner at Russian Hill Ventures (former Founder/CEO of Chintano, and also of PrivacyBank.com)
* Steven Krein, Co-Founder and CEO of OrganizedWisdom.com (former Co-Founder/CEO of Promotions.com and Transformation Ventures)
* Nat Turner, Co-founder and President/COO of Invite Media (former founder of EatNow.com, CertificateSwap.com)

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TWITTER FOR BUSINESS: Brandhacker Meetup (David Berkowitz/Greg Galant Keynote)


How companies are making a big impact with short messages on Twitter with David Berkowitz & Gregory Galant

RSVP Here:

http://www.meetup.com/brandhacker/calendar/10193449/

6:00-6:30 - Pre-Networking/ Pre-Tweeting
6:30-7:30 - Twitter (Dave Berkowitz & Gregory Galant Twitter "Shorty Report" Presentation)
7:30-8:00 - Audience Discussion / Q&A
8:00-8:30 - Post Networking / Post-Tweeting

Our next brandhacker meetup will be Monday, May 11th from 6-9 pm at our new location Legends 33 (at the southern base of the Empire State Building at 6 W 33rd Street - near 5th Avenue...just West of Starbucks) where we will have 360i's Dave Berkowitz and Sawhorse Media's Gregory Galant present the Twitter "Shorty Report" including insights on how to effectively use Twitter to network and solicit communication for your business or brand.

*This is a Tweet-up, so tweet this event referring to #brandhackers

See the Shorty Report here:
http://shortyreport.c...

See Dave Berkowitz here:
David Berkowitz, Director of Emerging Media & Client Strategy, 360i
Blog: MarketersStudio.com
http://twitter.com/dberkowitz.com

See Greg Galant here:
Gregory Galant, CEO, Sawhorse Media
http://api.twitter.com
http://sawhorsemedia.com
Producer, Venture Voice
http://venturevoice.com

The first half hour of the evening will include some offline social networking, then Dave and Greg will present some key take-away insights for an hour. We then return to some post offline social networking after the event.

*This is a cash bar event at Legends33: you can also order delicious food available. See their menu:

Legends 33 Website

See you there
-Brandhackers
http://twitter.com/robbhecht

Brandhackers ia a user-generated marketing professional social networking group with keynotes by industry trend setters on a monthly basis (the second Monday of each month at Legends 33 at 33rd St & 5th Avenue at 6 PM).

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Fridman Law Group "Business Law Basics" Series

Session 1: "Starting Your Company"

Tuesday May 12, 2009, 6:30 PM

287 Spring Street (at the corner of Hudson), Street Level

Admission: FREE

Fridman Law Group, PLLC has created the "Business Law Basics" series to give owners and operators the basic knowledge they need to help build successful businesses and avoid costly mistakes. The first session, "Starting Your Company", will explore the fundamentals of selecting, naming and forming an entity, working with partners or investors, raising seed capital, and hiring and compensating key staff. We will also illustrate common pitfalls and how to avoid them. To learn more about our firm, please visit us at FridmanLawGroup.com.

Attendance is limited so please RSVP by e-mail to info@ifridman.com.

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Pay Per Click (PPC) Summit, premier Search Engine Marketing educational conference teaches online marketers how to make more money with Pay Per Click advertising. During two-days of comprehensive training in cities across the U.S., PPC Summit offers laser-focused educational sessions to help online advertisers increase their ROI and maximize their marketing dollars.

Experts from Microsoft, Google, and others lead hands-on workshops, panel discussions, training sessions and more. Sessions cover keyword development, customer conversions, bidding strategies, web site analytics and tracking, quality score & site rank, search engine copywriting tactics, B2B & B2C ad techniques, web site & landing page development and deployment and more!

REGISTER NOW and save $400! PPC Summits in Chicago: April 22-23, New York: May 13-14 and Los Angeles: Sept. 23-24. Just 160 seats available!

www.ppcsummit.com

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Pay Per Click (PPC) Summit, premier Search Engine Marketing educational conference teaches online marketers how to make more money with Pay Per Click advertising. During two-days of comprehensive training in cities across the U.S., PPC Summit offers laser-focused educational sessions to help online advertisers increase their ROI and maximize their marketing dollars.

Experts from Microsoft, Google, and others lead hands-on workshops, panel discussions, training sessions and more. Sessions cover keyword development, customer conversions, bidding strategies, web site analytics and tracking, quality score & site rank, search engine copywriting tactics, B2B & B2C ad techniques, web site & landing page development and deployment and more!

REGISTER NOW and save $400! PPC Summits in Chicago: April 22-23, New York: June 16-17 and Los Angeles: Sept. 23-24. Just 160 seats available!

www.ppcsummit.com

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Wed-Thur, May 13-14, 8-5 both days

Register Now for Pay Per Click (PPC) Summit, THE Search Engine Marketing Summit of the Year! PPC Summit is the only educational Search Marketing Summit where internet marketers learn how to turbo-charge profits direct from the experts during hands-on workshops, panel discussions, training sessions, personal consulting---all designed to boost your results!

Attend this intensive, hands-on training and learn how to turn your Search Marketing into non-stop money-makers!
>Winning customer conversion strategies
>Profitable for keyword R&D and web analytics techniques
>Improved quality score and site rank for top results
>Killer ad copywriting tactics, web sites & landing pages
>Effective B2B & B2C advertising secrets for success

During two days of in-depth search marketing training sessions, you will be introduced to strategies and skills that are the foundation of successful pay per click marketing.

PPC Summits are designed to help you and the people at your firm become the savvy search engine advertisers you know you must be in order to maximize your pay per click opportunities, out perform your competitors, and build your business.

Who Should Attend Webmasters, Website Owners, Web Marketers, Search Engine Marketers, Internet Consultants and Strategists, CEOs, CMOs, Marketing Execs, Brand Managers, Ad Execs, AMs and AEs, Media Directors, Buyers, Planners, Product Managers, Solution Providers, Creative Directors, Etailers, Retailers, Manufacturers, Lead Generators, Affiliates etc.

"I utilized the PPC Summit strategies and increased my sales goal 7x over. My company's PPC revenue has increased by $1 million after applying these best practices." Michael Florez, Media Director, Ardis Marketing Group.

REGISTER NOW and SAVE $200! PPC Summits in Chicago: April 22-23, New York: May 13-14 and Los Angeles: Sept. 23-24. For more info: www.ppcsummit. Just 160 seats available!

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FundingPost has hosted 150+ sold-out venture events in 17 cities over the past 8 years. At our next NYC event, the panel of investors will focus on Early-Stage Venture Investing - how to meet investors, pitch them, and what it really takes to get them to write you a check! We will be discussing trends in Early-Stage Investing, hot sectors, sectors that these Angels and VCs look at, things that are most important to them when they are considering an Investment, the best and worst things an entrepreneur can do to get their attention, additional advice for entrepreneurs, and, of course, the best ways to reach these and other Investors. There will be plenty of time for networking with the Investor panelists, both before the panel & afterwards!

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Learn more about the role you can play in avoiding the historical challenges associated with provisioning and managing for growth. Today’s computing cloud gives you new techniques for you and your team to focus on differentiators and simplify your operations. And while some components of on-demand are maturing nicely, there are still challenges in meeting the needs of the enterprise. This session will also help you understand the terrain and anticipate and manage the pitfalls that come with this evolving technology suite. This seminar is being held @ The Westin New York at Times Square.

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Though women-owned businesses are facing the same economic difficulties as other businesses across the country but they appear to be coping with the difficulties in such a way that they are surviving and in many cases thriving when other business are not. In fact, according to a recent survey of National Association of Women Business Owners� (NAWBO�) members more than half say they have no plans to reduce employment and nearly 25 percent say they actually plan to add jobs this year. This is not surprising as woman entrepreneurs are use to starting businesses on a shoe-string budget without outside capital, they are known to be overly cautious about hiring full-time employees and often opt to use freelancers, they grow their businesses gradually based on grass roots market demand and not at the instance and pressure of outside forces. The results are strong and sustainable agile companies that are not racked with debt and bogged down with unnecessary employees. They are therefore able to quickly respond to changes in the market.

If they can do it - so can you!

Join MIT-EF of NYC on May 14th, 2009 and our esteemed panel of guests to Learning the secrets of successful women entrepreneurs in a down economy!

DATE:


Thursday, May 14th, 2009

TIME:

5:30pm - 6:00pm: Reception
6:00pm - 7:30pm: Panel Discussion
7:30pm - 8:30pm: Networking

PLACE:

Milbank
1 Chase Manhattan Plaza
New York, NY 10005-1413 - DIRECTIONS

REGISTRATION:

Free to members of MIT Enterprise Forum
$50 non-members, $10 extra at door
All members and guests are welcome.

If you can no longer attend this event, please
open the event announcement from our
Event List, click on the event registration link,
select the Please cancel registration for this event
button and then hit Submit.

For more information on the panel speakers lineup, please go to www.mitef-nyc.org (click on the events)

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Though women-owned businesses are facing the same economic difficulties as other businesses across the country but they appear to be coping with the difficulties in such a way that they are surviving and in many cases thriving when other business are not. In fact, according to a recent survey of National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) members more than half say they have no plans to reduce employment and nearly 25 percent say they actually plan to add jobs this year. This is not surprising as woman entrepreneurs are use to starting businesses on a shoe-string budget without outside capital, they are known to be overly cautious about hiring full-time employees and often opt to use freelancers, they grow their businesses gradually based on grass roots market demand and not at the instance and pressure of outside forces. The results are strong and sustainable agile companies that are not racked with debt and bogged down with unnecessary employees. They are therefore able to quickly respond to changes in the market.

If they can do it - SO CAN YOU!

Join MIT-EF of NYC on May 14th, 2009 and our esteemed panel of guests to Learning the secrets of successful women entrepreneurs in a down economy!

DATE:
Thursday, May 14th, 2009

TIME:
5:30pm - 6:00pm: Reception
6:00pm - 7:30pm: Panel Discussion
7:30pm - 8:30pm: Networking

PLACE:
Milbank
1 Chase Manhattan Plaza
New York, NY 10005-1413 - DIRECTIONS


REGISTRATION:
Free to members of MIT Enterprise Forum
$50 non-members, $10 extra at door
All members and guests are welcome.

If you can no longer attend this event, please open the event announcement from our Event List, click on the event registration link,select the Please cancel registration for this event
button and then hit Submit.

Panel Moderator: Beth Schoenfeldt, CEO Collective-E

Panel Members:
Kylie Sachs, VC, Ascend Venture Group
Tory Johnson, CEO, Women for Hire
Jennifer Hill, VP, Astia
Julie Brown, Founder, Inner Rewards

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In turbulent economic times, it is critically important to understand what opportunities exist to make our businesses run better. The emergence of a new era of technologies, collectively known as Web 3.0, provides this kind of strategically significant opportunity.

The core idea behind web 3.0 is to extract much more meaningful, actionable insight from information. At the conference, we will explore how companies are using these technologies today, and should be using them tomorrow, for significant bottom line impact in areas like marketing, corporate information management, customer service, and personal productivity.

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Ultra Light Startups: Legal Roundtable

The Ultra Light Startups Legal Roundtable is an informal forum in which technology entrepreneurs ask questions on legal topics and have them answered by attorneys from top law firms specializing in fields of interest to tech startups. Attendees will benefit from having their own questions answered and also by listening to the answers provided to others.

Unlike other Ultra Light Startups events there will be no "introductions by elevator pitch" at the Legal Roundtable and anyone can attend. We hope this format will be a great value for entrepreneurs seeking to understand the legal landscape for startups without engaging in costly private consultation. Please come prepared with a list of questions.

Topics:
* Forming a company
o LLC or Delaware C-Corp.? Any difference if not U.S. citizen?
o Separate holding co. outside of the U.S. for I.P. and other digital assets? Parent or subsidiary?
o Can people outside U.S. own U.S. assets/stock in U.S. companies? If so, what limitations or challenges?
o Founder's stock -- restricted stock or options? Vesting or not?
o What else? Consulting versus employment.
* Financing
o Friends and family (includes credit cards) / angels -- common or preferred stock? Valuations?
o What are the pros/cons of a VC-style preferred stock round?
* Intellectual Property
o What's the difference between/among copyrights, patents, trademarks, and trade secrets?
o Can I copy someone's web site? Can I copy an article posted on their web site? Can I link to their web site?
o Terms of use - should I post them ("browsewrap") or have users affirmatively agree to them?
o Privacy policy - do I need one? Why did Sony just pay a $1 million settlement to the FTC when Sony had a very good privacy policy?
o Any issues with third parties advertising on my site?
o Any issues with user-generated content (such as a blog) on my site?

Panelists (alphabetic order):
* Joe Daniels, Sr. Counsel, Fulbright & Jaworski LLP
* Jennifer Morgan, Sr. Associate, Fulbright & Jaworski LLP
* Sue Ross, Sr. Counsel, Fulbright & Jaworski LLP

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An important ingredient in the stimulus package is reducing the cost of healthcare and electronic record keeping for hospitals and doctors. It is imperative that these new methods of collaboration between the IT, Communications and Life Sciences sectors be developed if these goals are to be achieved. Making electronic record keeping a reality for practitioners and hospitals, innovative R&D, and clinical decision support will be critical, and a tremendous opportunity for business growth. Join our panel of experts as we look at how the rules are changing.

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On Thursday, May 21, The New York Media Information Exchange Group will host “The Legal Side of Digital Media,” a breakfast/panel discussion at the Time Warner Center from 7:30 to 9:30 AM.

The event will feature panelists: Fred Benenson: Manager of Outreach/Creative Commons; Ian DiBernardo: Partner/Stroock, Stroock & Lavan LLP; Melinda Lee: Co-Founder/UncensoredInterview.com; and Limor Schafman: President/KeystoneTech Group.

Moderated by Limor Schafman: President/KeystoneTech Group the event will focus on how to sort out the emerging legal issues created by the growth of digital media and the ways entrepreneurs and leaders of digital media businesses handle them.

$50/$30 for members

For registration and more information: http://bsobel.googlepages.com/nymieglegal21may2009

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Henry Stewart Events is recognized as the leading producer of Digital Asset Management (DAM) briefings worldwide and their content-driven DAM briefings are the only events dedicated to Digital Asset Management - all from the user’s perspective.

Digital assets are now pervasive across all industries, in all market segments. These assets need to be stored, searched, retrieved and deployed – easily and efficiently. DAM has become an essential business function, and effective DAM provides cost savings, improved productivity, consistent brand management and increased revenue, profits and shareholder value.

Attended by more than 200 delegates and sponsors, the NY DAM 2009 event is the premier briefing destination for suppliers of systems and services and DAM users who need to know about current happenings and future trends in the industry.

All participants, including executives considering their organization’s first steps into DAM, will benefit from this content-packed program of briefings and case studies presented by world leading experts – all from the user’s perspective.

Register before April 30, 2009 for Early Bird discounts.

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Mediabistro Circus: Extraordinary Impact explores the convergence of digital and traditional media, why it matters, and how it affects the work you do. It’s two days of inspired programming designed to bring together hundreds of top-level professionals from across the media disciplines.

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We're pleased to announce the Startup 2009 conference, which will take place in New York during Internet Week on Wednesday, June 3. The conference is co-hosted by Silicon Alley Insider and New York University's Stern School of Business, with support from founding sponsor General Catalyst Partners. Startup 2009 will showcase 10 top startups competing for bragging rights, buzz, and a $50,000 prize.

http://www.businessinsider.com/startup2009

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***THIS IS A TICKETED EVENT*****

Tickets will sell out. Please purchase now as there are only 300 tickets available:
http://www.92y.org/shop/event_detail.asp?productid=T-MM5LC20

*****
SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING 101
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009 | 6:00-10:00pm

The third Mashable NextUp NYC will provide information and guidance on Social Media Marketing; every successful company, whether it's a small business or a major corporation, can utilize this affordable form of online promotion. The night will comprise of networking and keynotes on the topic by Steve Rubel (SVP, Director of Insights for Edelman Digital) and Pete Cashmore (CEO and Founder, Mashable). Tickets now on sale.

TICKETS:
There are only 300 public tickets available per event. Tickets are on sale now through 92YTribeca, a non-profit organization. No further tickets will be released. Please purchase tickets here - http://www.92y.org/shop/event_detail.asp?productid=T-MM5LC20.


LOCATION:
92Y Tribeca
200 Hudson Street
New York, NY 10013

PRICING:
$20 in advance, $25 at door

FOOD AND DRINK:
Full bar and food menu available.

SOCIALIZE:
Facebook , Upcoming , Meetup

SCHEDULE:
*6:00-7:15 = Open Networking
*7:30-8:00 = Pete Cashmore, CEO/Founder of Mashable
* 8:00-8:45 = Open Networking
* 8:45-9:15 = Steve Rubel
* 9:15-Bar Close = Open Networking

*****
OPENING PRESENTATIONS BY:




Pete Cashmore
Founder and CEO of Mashable.com
http://www.mashable.com

Working as a web technology consultant in mid 2005, Pete Cashmore founded Mashable from an unlikely location: a small town in the north of Scotland. Focusing on up-to-the-minute news on social networks and new websites, it rapidly grew to be one of the top 10 blogs in the world according to the blog ranking service Technorati. The site's writers have been quoted in The New York Times, The Washington Post and hundreds of technology publications. Pete was selected as a Top 25 Forbes Web Celeb in 2007, while Mashable was chosen as a must-read site by both Fast Company and PC Magazine.

*****
CLOSING PRESENTATION BY:




Steve Rubel
SVP, Director of Insights for Edelman Digital
http://www.micropersuasion.com

Steve Rubel is a digital marketer with over 15 years experience. He currently serves as SVP, Director of Insights for Edelman Digital, a division of Edelman - the world's largest independent PR firm. Steve is charged with helping Edelman clients identify key insights, trends and emerging digital platforms that can be applied in marketing programs. He also explores these topics on his well-read Micro Persuasion weblog and in a bi-weekly column for AdAge Digital.

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The event, co-presented by SVASE, Garage Technology Ventures and Microsoft, provides the next generation of emerging technology companies with the opportunity to pitch their products to, and network with, an audience of Silicon Valley's top VCs, Angels, corporate business development executives, prospective customers and partners, bloggers and media.

Launch: Silicon Valley 2009 is designed to uncover and showcase products and services from the most exciting of the newest startups in information technology, mobility, security, digital media, next generation internet, life sciences and clean energy.

As in previous years, Launch: Silicon Valley 2009 will feature new companies that are ready for launch, but are not yet well known. These are companies that have a product or service available (as of June 9, 2009), but have not been out in the marketplace for more than a few months.

Companies that are interested in presenting their products at Launch: Silicon Valley 2009 should send an Executive Summary of no more than 2 pages to Launchsv@svase.org by latest May 8, 2009

Up to 30 of the most interesting companies will be invited to leverage Launch: Silicon Valley 2009 as the springboard to launch their product or service, and to network with the audience of Silicon Valley's top movers and shakers at the Pre-L:SV Event Party on the evening of June 8, as well as at the event itself on June 9.

For more details visit - http://launchsiliconvalley. org/index. htm

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Brandhackers,


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http://www.meetup.com/brandhacker/calendar/10193595/

"War in the Boardroom" - Why Left Brain Management and Right Brain Marketing Don't See Eye-to Eye & What to Do About It" by Laura Ries

6:00-6:30 - Pre-Networking
6:30-7:30 - "War in the Boardroom" - A Laura Ries Presentation
7:30-8:00 - Audience Discussion / Q&A
8:00-8:30 - Post Networking

Our next brandhacker meetup will be Tuesday, June 9th from 6-9 pm at our new location Legends 33 (at the southern base of the Empire State Building at 6 W 33rd Street - near 5th Avenue...just West of Starbucks) where we will have Laura Ries present insights from her best-selling marketing business book "War in the Boardroom" - Why Left Brain Management and Right Brain Marketing Don't See Eye-to Eye & What to Do About It"

See her book here:
War in the Boardroom
http://www.ries.com/b...

Buy "War in the Boardroom" on Amazon

In 1994, Ries & Ries was founded by legendary marketing strategist Al Ries and his daughter Laura Ries in New York. Since 1997, Ries & Ries has been based in Atlanta, Georgia. But they spend most of their time of the road consulting with top corporations around the world from Microsoft, Ford, Disney, Merck and Frito-Lay.

The first half hour of the evening will include some offline social networking, then Laura will present an overview of her book and give some key take-away insights for an hour. We then return to some post offline social networking after the event.

*This is a cash bar event at Legends33: you can also order delicious food available. See their menu:

Legends 33 Website

See you there
-Brandhackers
http://twitter.com/ro...

Brandhackers ia a user-generated marketing professional social networking group with keynotes by industry trend setters on a monthly basis at Legends 33 at 33rd St & 5th Avenue at 6 PM.

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Blogs With Balls is a social and new media gathering focused on the changing face of sports and the people making it happen — sports fans, writers, sites, teams, athletes and the companies who sponsor them — and their ability to maximize new media outlets for promotion and advancement.

Blogs with Balls 1.0 is set to take place with speakers from such notable blogs as Deadspin, Kissing Suzy Kolber, and With Leather, as well as mainstream media outlets like Sports Illustrated and Yahoo! Sports.

Discounted early bird tickets are now available and going fast.

Visit blogswithballs.com to get yours today!

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Starlight Investments, LLC and New York Private Equity Forums presents their 25th mid-stage capital conference.

Principals from 150+ leading investment partnerships, private equity funds and venture capital firms are expected to attend this event to be held at the Yale Club New York. The upcoming event can provide a highly effective and prestigious venue for management to deliver its vision to a captive audience of receptive investors and direct funding sources.

Our forums are among the nation's best attended events with a focus on showcasing fundable companies to an audience of active and highly-qualified investment professionals. These forums are truly unique because of the high concentration of partners and senior level decision makers.

For more information or registration by credit card over the telephone, please call Bryan Emerson at 1 713 225 3028.

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