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Capital Access Experts and Boston Entrepreneurs Gather at BRA Workshop
Nov 27, 2013
Last Friday, November 22, the
Business Development Division
of the BRA sponsored and ran an
Access to Capital Workshop
at the new
District Hall
in the
Innovation District
.
In an effort to provide entrepreneurs and businesses with the information they need to start, grow and succeed, the workshop was intended to assist attendees as they navigate the sometimes complex world of
financial access
. This was the pilot event in what the Business Development Division believes will be a series of workshops offered in different parts of the city over the coming months.
The workshop was planned by Rich Pellagrini,
CleanTech
Senior Manager, who also served as introductory speaker and moderator for the event. The event included four experienced and respected speakers with expertise in different areas of capital access. They were:
Mark Allio, a veteran advisor from the
Small Business Development Center Network at UMass Boston
;
Ben Littauer
, a well known equity investor from
Boston Harbor Angels
and
Walnut Ventures
, @
littweb;
Shereen Shermak, CEO of
Launch Angels
and both an investor and entrepreneur, @Launch_Angels; and
Ted Acworth, former MIT entrepreneur and Founder/CEO of
Artaic Innovative Design
.
The speakers took turns talking about their own piece of the financial access spectrum: Mark discussed bank financing and the importance of a good business plan, Ben outlined the differences between angel and venture investing, Shereen discussed the crowd funding wave and how to participate in it, and Ted talked from the perspective of someone who had used all of these resources to start and grow his company. Significant time was left at the end of the program for one on one discussions with the speakers, and follow up was encouraged.
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