Office Hours - Venture Café Cambridge

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Will is a widely recognized and followed expert in digital marketing, gaming, public relations, and crowdfunding. For the past 17 years, Will Brierly has run Snowrunner Productions. He has worked with Grammy Award-winning artists, Emmy Award-winning TV shows, NY Times best selling authors, international government agencies, video games and more.

You built something? It solves a problem. Great. You think you understand your market. Do you? Let's figure out together where you're at and what needs to be done to turn your product into a functioning company.

Melissa DiPalma

Melissa DiPalma

Messaging consulting, story refinement and pitch preparation for entrepreneurs, innovators and leaders

Talk strategy with a fellow innovator and founder who maintains an active IP Legal practice. Bob Donahoe focuses on “getting to yes” – assisting founding teams achieve their business goals with a strategic and efficient approach. He currently represents startups and global companies in technologies such as medical device, wearables and software. Bob recently led the development and business team that created a top-ranked (and patented) mobile sports app.

Ed seeks to help individuals developing innovative technologies build world class companies. Through Investors Collaborative (iC) he provides venture capital to select early stage companies in a wide range of industry sectors including software, IT, biotechnology, clean technology, healthcare, energy, communications, hardware, and professional services.

Bill is a Director with The CFO Center, the largest international provider of CFO resources, services, and solutions to the small and medium sized enterprise sector. Bill was previously a Partner of KPMG. He has experience in high tech, manufacturing and retail and distribution industries.

Chuck Goldstone

Chuck Goldstone

Startups often falter, not because their technologies aren't good, but because the stories they tell about them aren't. It's about content and intent: Finding your Core Story...the right message that says who you are. Making it clear/ engaging. Finding and articulating a compelling story. Creating strategies for any audience. Movings investors and markets to action. You'll chat with Chuck Goldstone, who for more than two decades has helped organizations find their voice.

Former venture-backed executive and VC, now coaching founders for dynamic growth.

Stephanie Lustgarten

Stephanie Lustgarten

Stephanie has nearly 15 years of experience in clinical development in the life sciences/biotech/pharma industry with a focus in oncology. Additionally, she has experience in phase I through phase III clinical trials and has lead global regulatory submissions from a clinical data sciences perspective, including New Drug Applications (NDA) and Marketing Authorization Application (MAA).

Thomas McGauley

Thomas McGauley

Tom is a Director in the Accounting Advisory Practice at CBIZ & MHM. He has more than 20 years of experience working with life science and technology companies, including more than 10 years as the CFO or senior financial executive of both publicly-traded and early-stage privately-held companies. Tom has helped companies from start-up through IPOs, up-listing to the Nasdaq, and numerous fundraisings and convertible debt offerings.

CPA with breadth of knowledge helping entrepreneurs with forecast preparation, fund raising support, outsourced CFO and more.

George is an active consultant, mentor and angel investor in the Harvard, MIT, and Boston entrepreneurial communities. With degrees in computer science and business, George co-founded a biotech market research company, acquired by a global bio-pharmaceutical service provider in 2008. If you are seeking feedback on your business concept, come prepared with high-level materials to explain your idea, including information on the market, team, and how you are addressing the problem/opportunity.

Jessica Manganello

Jessica Manganello

New Leaf Legal, focuses on creatively developing Corporate, Entertainment, and IP infrastructures for their start-up clients as well as helping established companies embark on new and entrepreneurial paths.

Hands-on enterprise B2B Go-to-Market expert, focused on increasing revenue and deal size.

Our Advisors volunteer their time to add value to those seeking guidance and we want to be respectful of their time as well as yours. We understand that schedule changes will happen, but last minute changes keep others from being able to take advantage of our experts.

Building people strategies and organizational cultures

Research and design for your users, their needs and wants, and their journeys through your app, before you code it. Not after.

Energetic & Experienced engineering + innovation leader in infrastructure tech and building clouds.

Marcus recently left IBM after more than 20 years of services to join force with an IBM Watson business partner and a predictive software startup. He sees the future as one of predictive. Any startups or enterprises that process the predictive capabilities will have the competitive edge. He specializes in strategic and sales process consulting to shorten sales cycles to customers. In 2015, he was on a team that works with startups, entrepreneurs, enterprises, developers, incubators, and VCs.

Are you new to the Greater Boston startup scene or would you like some personal guidance on navigating the community? Melissa Yee's insight and knowledge of the ecosystem will help give you the confidence to move forward, build connections, & make things happen!

Le is the founder and CEO of Squadle, an IoT platform company that helps automate multi-unit restaurant operations for the likes of Sonic Drive-In and Chick-fil-A. Squadle is backed by 500 Startups, Bolt VC, Accomplice, Walnut Ventures, and more. He is named in several patents in the IoT field.

Marty Sack has mentored more than 200 start-ups and is a regular business mentor at the Venture Cafe. As a certified SCORE Mentor he brings resources of more than forty additional successful executives, Venture Capitalists, Marketing and Digital Marketing experts, and small business owners from diverse areas of business and non-profits–all volunteers offering free business advice and mentoring services.

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