Non-Dilutive Funding and Ways to Bootstrap Your Startup Company

Entrepreneurs’ Network – Cambridge Meeting

Are you a founder? Are you trying to start your own business but don’t have a trust fund to get it off the ground? Are you looking for ways to raise capital without giving up a huge chunk of equity? Non-dilutive Funding and bootstrapping could be your solution. As a savvy entrepreneur you have many funding options to choose from. Very few startups actually require VC funding as an initial funding source. If you want to learn about practical methods to finance your startup using creative techniques without giving up equity, this event is for you!

So if you’d like to avoid giving up equity before you have to, come and listen to successful speakers how they did it. This session will bring together experts who have built great companies, who have used non-dilutive funding or bootstrapping techniques to move ahead from bright idea through prototype or minimum viable product, beta, and beyond without giving up equity.

Moderator: Stacey Arbetter, Co-founder & CEO of Mutt Maps, Inc., http:/muttmaps.com/

Stacey is a Serial Entrepreneur of several successful startups including the leading supplier in North America of an industrial product for the transportation industry and, previously, the largest independent exporter of automobiles in the U.S. Excels at identifying market opportunities. She is motivated by new challenges where complex, innovative problem-solving skills and business strategy can bring direct and immediate value to an enterprise. Stacey’s latest startup is Mutt Maps. Mutt Maps is a web app developing a community for pet owners that delivers community-reviewed, geolocated, pet-friendly places, services and products.

Co-Moderator: Dr. Karthik Ganesan, Program Director, Cognizant Technology Solutions, http://www.cognizant.com/

Dr. Karthik Ganesan is the American Program Director for Business Consulting and Enterprise IT at Cognizant Technology Solutions, a NASDAQ listed, Fortune 500 US Corporation. He manages a multimillion dollar portfolio of services for corporate customers, leading globally distributed teams to provide domain knowledge and technical services.

Dr. Ganesan’s experience spans applying optimization and domain knowledge skills to manufacturing, supply chain, logistics and retail operations in large corporations. As a domain leader, he manages teams spread across the USA, Latin America, Europe and India for delivering business and IT projects. He focuses on solving logistics operations and supply chain management and manufacturing problems faced by his customers. He is responsible for leading the business center in implementing full-life cycle solutions to his customers within competitive, time constrained contractual terms. His responsibility extends to internal and external team management, customer satisfaction and securing repeat business for his group. Prior to taking this industry position, he spent over a decade in graduate level teaching and research in both engineering and business schools.

Where: Microsoft Technology Center, One Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA. 02142 Phone: (781) 487-6400. MTC is across from the Kendall Square Post Office. Exit Kendall Square T Station to Main Street. Once you exit the station, head down the Marriott side of Main Street going in the direction of Boston/the Longfellow Bridge. The Technology Center entrance is located across from the new park at the confluence of Main Street and Broadway. See also: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/mtc/locations/boston_directions.aspx

Admission: General admission is $10. Free to ENET members. Free Pizza and soft drinks will be served. Advanced registration is requested but not necessary.

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