Boston E-Trek

Finally it is coming together... after months of work, co-ordination with other schools, nailing down the schedule with the speakers and so on, our team is now set for the entrepreneurship trek to Boston.

This promises to be a fantastic event. We are being hosted at HBS and will have students from both HBS and MIT Sloan participate.

Take a look at the impressive list, we are fortunate to have such quality speakers.

Paul Conforti, Finale Desserts, www.finaledesserts.com
William Richmond, Broadband Directions, www.broadbanddirections.com
Leon Amariglio, Rhythmia, www.rhythmia.com
Dan Thibeault, Graduate Leverage, www.graduateleverage.com
Ben Campbell, OurStage, www.ourstage.com
Arijit Sengupta, Beyond Core, www.beyondcore.com
Wai Kit Lau, ScanScout,
Phuc Truong, eRecruiting
Furgan Nazeeri, Pivot Solutions. www.pivotsolutions.com
Alexandra Novakovich, Get Connected, www.getconnected.com
Al Kapoor, TiE VC Boston
Colin Mahony, Bessemer Venture Partners, www.bvp.com
Philip Guarino, Arclinea Boston, www.arclineaboston.com
Dan Wittner, Satisfaction Services New England, www.satisfactionservicesinc.com
Steven Papa, Endeca, www.endeca.com
Mike Zhang, Diet.com, www.diet.com
Robert Fleming, Prism Ventures, founder, www.prismventure.com
Stephen Schrodel, Isis Maternity, www.isismaternity.com
Jonathan Roosevelt, My Healthy Fit, www.myhealthyfit.com
Ian Chan, US Genomics / IE Labs, www.usgenomics.com

Stay tuned for news on San Francisco trek that will be a Stanford GSB/Wharton trek. We have some great things brewing...

Speakers at Wharton West tonight

Feng Deng and Jeffrey Lee, the two general partners from Northern Light Venture Capital will be at Wharton West tonight to speak with current students and alums.

Feng and Jeffrey are WEMBA alumni and were classmates. They co-founded Northern Light Venture Capital in 2005, a China focused fund. The firm is backed by leading venture firms in the US such as NEA and Greylock Partners.

 
Before Northern Light, in 1997 Feng co-founded NetScreen Technologies, which has become one of the world's leading network security equipment vendors. NetScreen went public on NASDAQ in 2001 and was acquired by Juniper Networks in 2004 for $4 billion.

Look forward to hearing their thoughs on investment climate in China and on raising a new fund

Something to remember....

"We don't know where have come from, we don't know where we are going, all that matters is the journey" words for wisdom from Bala S. Manian who was guest speaker today at Wharton West.

Bala mentioned he was lucky to have a mentor in Eugene Kleiner the famed founder of Kleiner Perkins. Bala currently is the CEO of ReaMetrix .

Speaking about inspirational leaders, big ideas and sutff like that... check out the videos on BT's Big Thinkers series.

Looking forward to another season...

I have been volunteering with Team Asha, the marathon training part of Asha for Education for a little while now. The coordinators are furiously working to launch yet another successful year of training hundreds of lethargic Indian guys (very much like me) and girls to conquer their first marathon.

Some volunteers have put together a fantastic video, a little longish for my taste but well done.

Go Team Asha!