Open Mic Night – Entrepreneurs Share Startup Stories

Entrepreneurs’ Network, Cambridge Meeting

Open Mic Night – Entrepreneurs Share Startup Stories

Back by popular demand is the annual Open Mic Night, where entrepreneurs share startup stories to help fellow entrepreneurs! Share your startup success story or your invaluable lessons learned from a setback or failure, all in a good faith effort to pay it forward to other founders, startup team members, and entrepreneurs.

Open Mic Night gives you up to three minutes to present your story in front of a panel of expert judges and an engaged audience. Entrepreneurs get an opportunity to practice their presentation skills in front of an unknown audience, get feedback from the panel of experts, and network with attendees. There is ample time to network over pizza and beverages before and after the event. You just never know who you will meet … really! The event will be held right in the heart Cambridge’s innovation hub, Kendall Square, at Microsoft Technology Center.

To celebrate Boston ENET’s 25th year of educating and empowering entrepreneurs, a silver desktop organizer will be awarded to winners in the following categories: 1) Audience Favorite, by vote of the audience, 2) Titanic, a startup that was doomed from start, but gives life saving lessons, 3) Unicorn, a magical surprise, and 4) Rising Phoenix, despite all odds, the startup or team that rose out of the ashes to become a success.

Sign up now to share your startup story at the annual Boston ENET’s Open Mic Night! To pitch at Open Mic Night, please email maureenmansfield@post.harvard.edu or call/text 781-369-2020 or 857-333-1876.

Panelists: Our panel of experts will be announced before Open Mic Night. These panelists are drawn from our community of pitch coaches, angel investors, VC investors, entrepreneurs whose startups have scaled, and service providers and business consultants who work in the entrepreneurial space.

Check for Updates: Boston Entrepreneurs’ Network Website at ( http://www.boston-enet.org )

Meeting Co-Organizer: Maureen Mansfield, ALM, Chief Contract Officer, MANSFIELD LAW, MANSFIELD LAW, Twitter: @MaureenManALM.

Maureen Mansfield, ALM, is a business development, corporate development, and strategy professional for companies in the the private and public sectors. Currently, Maureen is at Mansfield Law where she works with entrepreneurs, inventors, artists, startups, and emerging growth companies. Previously, she cofounded a boot strapped startup that has progressed to a $10 million term sheet agreement. She currently serves as an advisor and mentor for several startups and related entrepreneurial ventures. She is a member of the Executive Board of The Boston Entrepreneurs’ Network (Boston ENET), where she leads Alliance Partnerships.

Prior to joining Mansfield Law in 2009, Maureen was a New England Director of Business Development for the award-winning firm Syska & Hennessy, Inc., With S&H, she focused on business development and corporate management strategy for major accounts locally, nationally, and internationally. After helping to bring in its most successful year, Maureen was awarded a seat on the board of directors. Previously, Maureen was a Senior National Accounts Manager at Abbott Laboratories where she focused on contract compliance, increasing revenues, and sales. She initiated and innovated contract management and auditing procedures that resulted in a new nationwide cost center the produced annual savings of over $1 million. She also helped cofound two holiday charities that continue today.

Maureen received two BAs from the University of Iowa., one in Journalism and one in Communication. Maureen also received a Master of Liberal Arts (ALM) in Management with a Concentration in Finance & Control from Harvard University.

Meeting Co-Organizer: Dr. Nathalie Goletiani, MD, Founder and CEO, POWERFEM Therapeutics http://www.powerfemtherapeutics.com

Dr. Goletiani is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of POWERFEM Therapeutics, a company devoted to novel, networked treatment methods for the care of those suffering from substance abuse and mental illness. Her extensive clinical research into the hormonal effects of nicotine, opioid and cocaine use lead her to new concepts and mechanisms in understanding and treating psychiatric disorders, in particular, disorders experienced by underserved female populations. At Harvard’s McLean Hospital, she was charged with rebuilding and responsible for all the operations of Clinical Research Program, including simultaneously running multiple clinical trials. Based on her patented work, she founded POWERFEM Therapeutics, an independent company devoted to creating new treatments and healthcare solutions. POWERFEM incorporates novel disease concepts and treatments to design cost-effective, integrated mental and substance abuse care solutions across multiple provider networks.

Dr. Goletiani has received numerous national and international awards including most recently the Harvard Livingston Award for the investigation of complex underlying mechanisms in the neurobiology of women. She also received a Harvard University Zinberg Fellowship specifically to support her research on alcohol and drug use disorders. Her research provides a valuable basis for psychotherapeutic public policy decision making on issues of substance abuse and the integrated treatment of mental illness. She has extensively published the results of her research in peer reviewed journals.

Nathalie completed basic and clinic fellowships at the Harvard School of Public Health and at Harvard Medical School. In addition, she has been trained at and conducted medical research at Tbilisi State Medical University, University of Amsterdam and King’s College in London.

E-Minute Presentations will be given at the start of the meeting. These very short presentations enable young startup entrepreneurs to gain experience in presenting their summary business plans to expert panels and audiences.

Where: Microsoft Technology Center, 255 Main Street /One Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA. 02142 Phone: (781) 487-6400 The One Cambridge Center GENERAL ENTRANCE is on 255 Main Street, Cambridge, 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 One Cambridge Center entrance is located next to the Boston Properties entrance. Enter through the glass revolving door and proceed to the Microsoft facilities on the second floor. Note: There is also a direct Microsoft entrance across from the rotary at the confluence of Main Street and Broadway. See also: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/mtc/locations/boston_directions.aspx

PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION: Travel Mass RT 2 East from RT 128 Exit 29A directly to the Alewife MBTA garage. Park at the Alewife Garage ($7.00) on the MBTA subway Red Line. Take the inbound train (the only one available there) for 15 minutes to Kendall / MIT. The entrance to the Microsoft Technology Center is directly across the street from the station.

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