2009 NECINA Entrepreneurship Case Study Seminar
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Harry Gao
Oct 23, 2009, 1:35:46 PM10/23/09
to NECINA Excubator
Date and Time: Tuesday, October 27, 2009, 6:30 pm – 8:50 pm
RSVP (Online Registration required): http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=192024
Venue: IBM Innovation Center, 404 Wyman Street, Waltham, MA
02451-1280
Sponsor: IBM INNOVATION CENTER
Greetings everyone! NECINA continues its series of dynamic events with
a seminar featuring case studies of two start-ups – Solar Engineering
Solutions (SES) and WebNotes. In this session, these two
entrepreneurial teams will discuss their ideas and products, share
their experience in dealing with challenges of building their
companies, and raise questions and solicit input from panelists and
the general audience. There is a twist of the seminar format in that
we encourage all audience to play a more active role in offering their
perspective of how they would handle the challenges themselves.
The seminar will also feature an esteemed group of experienced, well-
qualified panelists including John Manning of Deloitte & Touche, Jo
Tango of Kepha Partners and Eric Apse of IBM, who will provide
feedback on these two presentations. The panel discussion will be
moderated by Joseph Perry of IBM. Following moderator’s questions, the
panelists will use the studies as a springboard to a more general
discussion over best practices that will hopefully be helpful to all
aspiring, current and future entrepreneurs. In short, the seminar
will provide an opportunity for all audience members to learn the
basic principles of being a successful entrepreneur.
Agenda
6:30-7:00 pm: Networking
7:00-7:05 pm: Introduction of NECINA, Excubator Program, Venture Club
7:05-7:10 pm: Introduction of IBM Innovation Centers
7:10-7:30 pm: Presentation by Solar Engineering (including 5 minute Q
& A)
7:30-7:50 pm: Presentation by Webnotes (including 5 minute Q & A)
7:50-8:30 pm: Panel discussion with panelists led by Moderator
8:30-8:40 pm: Q &A session
8:40-8:50 pm: Closing Remarks & Survey Description of Teams
Descriptions of Teams
Solar Engineering Solutions (SES)
SES offers a solar solution for cooling and heating needs in large
commercial buildings. It harnesses clean solar thermal energy and
delivers to buildings at a greater energy savings than any other
solutions. This solution also enables peak-time electricity demand
shaving.
Their Solar Air Conditioning System (SACS) utilizes solar energy to
heat up water to both drive the air-conditioning system and satisfy
hot water demands for large buildings. Customers will benefit from
energy savings of up to 80%, with a payback period of 3-5 years; this
payback period can be further reduced to 1-2 years with tax incentives
and rebates from government.
SES has been awarded laboratory space on an MIT building for
demonstration purposes. They have discussed with potential customers
who have shown keen interest in their technology and products.
Webnotes
PR firms spend hundreds of hours every week performing online research
to track client coverage, competition, and industry news, tediously
copying and pasting information from the web into Word documents which
are formatted and emailed to clients. By making it easy to capture
and organize content from web pages and PDFs and automatically
generate professional reports, WebNotes (www.webnotes.net) allows
firms to save up to 50% of their time at half the cost of competing
products.
Ryan Damico, WebNotes' co-founder & CEO, graduated from MIT in 2005
with a degree in Computer Science. Prior to founding WebNotes, Ryan
was a Program Manager at Avid Technology.
Moderator
Joseph Perry:
Joseph Perry is the Regional Innovation Center Manager for the North
American Eastern Region and Canada for IBM's ISV & Developer
Relations. Joe was also a member of the IBM Software Group’s Worldwide
Technical Leadership Council for 3 years, Joe has extensive experience
with Internet technology and with business consulting. Joe currently
is a Ph.D. candidate in the Law, Policy & Society Program at
Northeastern University, where he is also an instructor for the on-
line MBA program. He has experience working with Fortune 100 clients.
Joe’s areas of expertise include Internet privacy, health care
technologies and policy, and networked communications. He holds an
M.B.A. (concentration in technology) from Northeastern University and
a B.A. from the University of Massachusetts at Boston.
Panelists
John Manning:
John F. Manning is Partner, Assurance & Advisory Services at Deloitte
& Touche. John has 22 years of public accounting experience,
specializing in multi-national complex businesses, in the media,
technology and life sciences industries. He serves a number of our
office’s largest, fastest growing clients and has extensive experience
in mergers and acquisitions work, public company reporting issues, and
multi-national companies. John is one of the Boston office’s
professional practice directors, having served as a deputy in that
position for 8 years. In addition, he is a frequent speaker at
industry events on topics such as software revenue recognition and
business combinations. John has served or represented more than two-
dozen large companies in New England. He is member of American
Institute of Certified Public Accountant and Massachusetts Society of
Certified Public Accountants.
Jo Tango:
Jo Tango founded Kepha Partners. He has invested in the e-commerce,
search engine, Internet ad network, wireless, supply chain software,
storage, database, security, on-line payments and data center
virtualization spaces.
He has been a founding or first institutional investor in AutoVirt,
Azuki Systems, Bit9, ByLedge, ExaGrid, StreamBase Systems, Vertica
Systems, and Virtual Iron, getting involved nearly always at the
company inception phase. Other investments include Ask Jeeves (Nasdaq:
ASKJ), Digital Market (acquired by Agile Software), and NextCard
(Nasdaq: NXCD).
Jo previously was at Highland Capital Partners for nearly 9 years,
where he was a General Partner. He also spent five years with Bain &
Company, where he was based in Singapore, Hong Kong and Boston, and
focused on technology and start-up projects.
Jo attended Yale University (B.A., summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa)
and Harvard Business School (M.B.A., Baker Scholar). He serves on the
board of NECINA (New England Chinese Information and Network
Association) and is very active with the MIT Deshpande Center.
Eric Apse:
Eric Apse is a IBM Venture Capital Group Partner, representing IBM's
ISV and Developer Relations. Eric leads team of Business Development
Executives responsible for developing key new partnerships for IBM
with Venture backed software companies across North America. He has
had over 20 years of combined experience in sales, marketing, pricing
and finance.
Fee:
Member: $5.00
Non-member: $20.00
Contacts: Harry Gao (ha...@gnwLaser.com), Haifei Zhang
(hfaz...@gmail.com)
You are welcome to join NECINA at http://www.necina.org/member.htm.
RSVP (Online Registration required): http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=192024
Venue: IBM Innovation Center, 404 Wyman Street, Waltham, MA
02451-1280
Sponsor: IBM INNOVATION CENTER
Greetings everyone! NECINA continues its series of dynamic events with
a seminar featuring case studies of two start-ups – Solar Engineering
Solutions (SES) and WebNotes. In this session, these two
entrepreneurial teams will discuss their ideas and products, share
their experience in dealing with challenges of building their
companies, and raise questions and solicit input from panelists and
the general audience. There is a twist of the seminar format in that
we encourage all audience to play a more active role in offering their
perspective of how they would handle the challenges themselves.
The seminar will also feature an esteemed group of experienced, well-
qualified panelists including John Manning of Deloitte & Touche, Jo
Tango of Kepha Partners and Eric Apse of IBM, who will provide
feedback on these two presentations. The panel discussion will be
moderated by Joseph Perry of IBM. Following moderator’s questions, the
panelists will use the studies as a springboard to a more general
discussion over best practices that will hopefully be helpful to all
aspiring, current and future entrepreneurs. In short, the seminar
will provide an opportunity for all audience members to learn the
basic principles of being a successful entrepreneur.
Agenda
6:30-7:00 pm: Networking
7:00-7:05 pm: Introduction of NECINA, Excubator Program, Venture Club
7:05-7:10 pm: Introduction of IBM Innovation Centers
7:10-7:30 pm: Presentation by Solar Engineering (including 5 minute Q
& A)
7:30-7:50 pm: Presentation by Webnotes (including 5 minute Q & A)
7:50-8:30 pm: Panel discussion with panelists led by Moderator
8:30-8:40 pm: Q &A session
8:40-8:50 pm: Closing Remarks & Survey Description of Teams
Descriptions of Teams
Solar Engineering Solutions (SES)
SES offers a solar solution for cooling and heating needs in large
commercial buildings. It harnesses clean solar thermal energy and
delivers to buildings at a greater energy savings than any other
solutions. This solution also enables peak-time electricity demand
shaving.
Their Solar Air Conditioning System (SACS) utilizes solar energy to
heat up water to both drive the air-conditioning system and satisfy
hot water demands for large buildings. Customers will benefit from
energy savings of up to 80%, with a payback period of 3-5 years; this
payback period can be further reduced to 1-2 years with tax incentives
and rebates from government.
SES has been awarded laboratory space on an MIT building for
demonstration purposes. They have discussed with potential customers
who have shown keen interest in their technology and products.
Webnotes
PR firms spend hundreds of hours every week performing online research
to track client coverage, competition, and industry news, tediously
copying and pasting information from the web into Word documents which
are formatted and emailed to clients. By making it easy to capture
and organize content from web pages and PDFs and automatically
generate professional reports, WebNotes (www.webnotes.net) allows
firms to save up to 50% of their time at half the cost of competing
products.
Ryan Damico, WebNotes' co-founder & CEO, graduated from MIT in 2005
with a degree in Computer Science. Prior to founding WebNotes, Ryan
was a Program Manager at Avid Technology.
Moderator
Joseph Perry:
Joseph Perry is the Regional Innovation Center Manager for the North
American Eastern Region and Canada for IBM's ISV & Developer
Relations. Joe was also a member of the IBM Software Group’s Worldwide
Technical Leadership Council for 3 years, Joe has extensive experience
with Internet technology and with business consulting. Joe currently
is a Ph.D. candidate in the Law, Policy & Society Program at
Northeastern University, where he is also an instructor for the on-
line MBA program. He has experience working with Fortune 100 clients.
Joe’s areas of expertise include Internet privacy, health care
technologies and policy, and networked communications. He holds an
M.B.A. (concentration in technology) from Northeastern University and
a B.A. from the University of Massachusetts at Boston.
Panelists
John Manning:
John F. Manning is Partner, Assurance & Advisory Services at Deloitte
& Touche. John has 22 years of public accounting experience,
specializing in multi-national complex businesses, in the media,
technology and life sciences industries. He serves a number of our
office’s largest, fastest growing clients and has extensive experience
in mergers and acquisitions work, public company reporting issues, and
multi-national companies. John is one of the Boston office’s
professional practice directors, having served as a deputy in that
position for 8 years. In addition, he is a frequent speaker at
industry events on topics such as software revenue recognition and
business combinations. John has served or represented more than two-
dozen large companies in New England. He is member of American
Institute of Certified Public Accountant and Massachusetts Society of
Certified Public Accountants.
Jo Tango:
Jo Tango founded Kepha Partners. He has invested in the e-commerce,
search engine, Internet ad network, wireless, supply chain software,
storage, database, security, on-line payments and data center
virtualization spaces.
He has been a founding or first institutional investor in AutoVirt,
Azuki Systems, Bit9, ByLedge, ExaGrid, StreamBase Systems, Vertica
Systems, and Virtual Iron, getting involved nearly always at the
company inception phase. Other investments include Ask Jeeves (Nasdaq:
ASKJ), Digital Market (acquired by Agile Software), and NextCard
(Nasdaq: NXCD).
Jo previously was at Highland Capital Partners for nearly 9 years,
where he was a General Partner. He also spent five years with Bain &
Company, where he was based in Singapore, Hong Kong and Boston, and
focused on technology and start-up projects.
Jo attended Yale University (B.A., summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa)
and Harvard Business School (M.B.A., Baker Scholar). He serves on the
board of NECINA (New England Chinese Information and Network
Association) and is very active with the MIT Deshpande Center.
Eric Apse:
Eric Apse is a IBM Venture Capital Group Partner, representing IBM's
ISV and Developer Relations. Eric leads team of Business Development
Executives responsible for developing key new partnerships for IBM
with Venture backed software companies across North America. He has
had over 20 years of combined experience in sales, marketing, pricing
and finance.
Fee:
Member: $5.00
Non-member: $20.00
Contacts: Harry Gao (ha...@gnwLaser.com), Haifei Zhang
(hfaz...@gmail.com)
You are welcome to join NECINA at http://www.necina.org/member.htm.
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