InSITE Georgetown Fellows take 1st Place at VCIC
InSITE DC Fellows and Georgetown MBA students Sara Zulkosky and Sherief Khalil teamed with three Georgetown MBA colleagues Neal Foley, Ryan Hill and Selman Altun, to claim the International Championship this past weekend at the 2013 Venture Capital Investment Competition (VCIC) at UNC. The team analyzed startup companies, interviewed Entrepreneurs, structured a deal and negotiated the terms. After a question and answer session with the panel of venture capitalist judges, they were voted the team that did the best job playing the role of venture capitalists. Sixty of the best business schools...
Read MoreNY’s top VC’s and startups bowl for InSITE
On Monday night, the InSITE fellows hosted the first ever ‘Kingpins of Silicon Alley‘ at Bowlmor-Union Square, an InSITE fundraiser and friendly competition for the entrepreneurial community in NYC. It was an amazing night of fun, games, meeting old friends and making new ones, informal pitches and exchanging business cards. Most of NY’s top VC’s and Angels were there (RRE, Union Square Ventures, IA Ventures, David Tisch, Tribeca VP, Greycroft, Flybridge, NYA, Contour Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Canaan, Boxgroup), as well as law and professional services firms...
Read MoreWHAT’S FRED WILSON THINKING?
There is disagreement over what makes a VC successful. But there is definitely consensus on one point: Fred Wilson, co-founder of Union Square Ventures and an early investor in Twitter, Foursquare, Etsy, Zynga or Tumblr, is one of the best. I don’t know any entrepreneur who wouldn’t want him on his board. So when Fred speaks, the InSITE fellows listen. And yesterday, in the seventh annual fire chat with fellows and alumni, we listened again. There are 2 trends that Fred is thinking about right now: · ‘Pervasive computing’ revisited · Machine Learning Pervasive...
Read MoreInSITE Spring 2013 Company Announcement
Tonight, InSITE Fellows will kick off their projects with six amazing startups from NYC. As we do every semester, we spoke with a ton of really awesome companies and had the difficult task of narrowing that list down to just a few that we have capacity to work with pro bono this semester. Our extensive research into the NY tech scene has left us excited about the future of our home turf. We wish that we had more time and resources to provide to our companies and entrepreneurs. Thank you to every company that applied. We enjoyed reading your applications, speaking with you, and testing out...
Read MoreInSITE Fellows take on Silicon Valley & SF
Several New York InSITE Fellows (Brian Ballan, Brian Galgay, Nir Sandbank, Craig Wilson, and myself) had the opportunity to visit the Square office in San Francisco. The company is known for its credit card reader used with smartphones and tablets. Square, founded in 2010, has changed the way small businesses accept payments and entrepreneurs think about payment platforms (the reason why there are so many new startups in the space!). The company has captured three million merchants in over two years and has processed over $10 billion dollars in payments. For reference, Visa and...
Read MoreSteve Blank Chats with InSITE about the Importance of Being Lean
“A startup is an organization formed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.” - Steve Blank On Wednesday, January 16th, InSITE Fellows were treated to an evening with Steve Blank. During the fireside chat hosted by InSITE chairman Paul Tumpowsky, Mr. Blank walked the fellows through his uncanny record of successes in the tech firm. In over 20 years of service, 4 of Blank’s 8 startups have gone public; leaving little room to suggest that he is anything other than an authority in the space. In addition to highlighting some of his unique experiences working in Silicon...
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