5th Annual HBS and Harvard Entrepreneurship Summit

Microsoft SV Campus
1065 La Avenida
Mountain View, CA

5th Annual HBS and Harvard Entrepreneurship Summit



Best Investment NVC 2014


Most Innovative NVC 2014


Most Impactful NVC 2014

.....Come join us at our annual largest gathering of HBS and Harvard Alumni Entrepreneurs in Northern California 

-  Learn about and meet the most promising HBS and Harvard alumni startups including the winners of the 2014 HBS Northern California New Venture Competition- best investment, most innovative, and most impactful and the 2014 Growth Startups. 

-  Connect with fellow entrepreneurs, investors, and potential partners

-  See promising startups present with feedback from a senior HBS and  Harvard alumni venture panel. 

6pm-9pm on Monday, April 21st 

Microsoft SV Campus 1065 La Avenida, Mountain View

Agenda

5pm-6pm (Cooley Office Hours- prescheduled)
6pm-7pm

Company Presentations and Venture Panel (Prompt start at 6pm) 

7pm-7:15pm Special Presentation by HBS Professor Andrei Hagiu
7:15pm-7:30pm HBS New Venture Competition and Growth Startup Award Ceremony
7:30pm-9pm Dinner and Entrepreneurs Reception and Showcase


Venture Panel
Dan Ahn, Harvard College '90, HBS '97, Managing Director, Voyager Capital (Panel Moderator)
Professor Andrei Hagiu, Strategy, Harvard Business School
Patrick Chung, HLS and HBS '04, Partner, NEA
Jean Kovacs, HBS '85, President, HBS Angels Northern California
Charles Moldow, HBS '93, General Partner, Foundation Capital
Parker Conrad, Harvard College AB '02, Co-Founder and CEO, Zenefits

Event Chairs:  Ping Hao, HBS '97, Aurin Bhattacharjee, HBS '10

24+ Startup Companies Attending/Showcasing to include and more:

Alterante
Blissby
C2 Therapeutics
Cargo Chief
Connect
Contastic
Dapper
E-Yearbook.com
FLYR
Folsom Labs
Hippo Reads
HobNob Connect
LivBlends
Magnet
Mavrx
ModuleQ
Muse Factory, Inc.
Nailed Kit
PandoraBots
ReinCloud
The Reset Foundation
WhizMaps

Registration:  $45 (member and their one guest, $45 each), $65 (non-member and guests) .  The registration deadline is Friday, April 18th.  

Refunds require a 72 hour notice!

REGISTRATION CLOSED!

Andrei Hagiu
Associate Professor of Business Administration

Andrei is an Associate Professor in the Strategy group at Harvard Business School. Andrei's research focuses on multi-sided markets, which feature platforms/intermediaries serving two or more distinct groups of customers, who value each other's participation. He is studying the business strategies used by such platforms and the economic structure of the industries in which they operate: videogames (e.g. OnLive, PlayStation, Wii), e-commerce (e.g. Amazon, eBay, Gazelle, Rakuten), smartphones (e.g. Android, iPhone), personal computers (e.g. Windows, Mac OS), shopping malls (e.g. Roppongi Hills), intellectual property (e.g. Intellectual Ventures, Ocean Tomo, RPX), payment systems (e.g. Edy, PayPal, Suica, Visa), online TV services (e.g. Brightcove, PCCW, PP Live), etc.  Andrei is using the insights derived from this research to advise companies in some of these industries. He is also occasionally involved in competition and industrial policy research and advisory projects in Japan, China, and in the United States.  

Interested in showcasing your startup company or presenting to investors? Interested in recommending an alumni startup? Email Ping Hao at phao@mba1997.hbs.edu for more details.