If you had the opportunity to sit next to really successful entrepreneurs, what would you ask them? That is the challenge and the opportunity being presented on October 26th at 11am when Jean Anne Booth, CEO of UnaliWear, Kim LaLande of Key.co and Joy Marcus, Entrepreneur, Investor and Princeton University Lecturer take part in a panel hosted by American Entrepreneurship Today® in partnership with angel group Keirestu Forum Mid-Atlantic.
Booth, a serial entrepreneur with multiple exits, has raised over $100 million in venture capital funding. LaLande is currently raising funds for her startup, while being mentored by a top venture capitalist and Joy Marcus is an entrepreneur, investor and lecturer at Princeton University. The three have a wealth of experience any entrepreneur would want to tap into.
Also panelists Howard Lubert, founder of Keiretsu Forum Mid-Atlantic and David Stengle, founder of Board++ join in the discussion, offering their insight on funding. Howard will share how entrepreneurs can better engage with angel groups, while offering his angel group’s experience in funding women entrepreneurs. David draws on his career of building enterprise software startups and why his startup is timely for advancing women and minorities.
Jeanne Gray, founder and publisher of American Entrepreneurship Today®, is the panel moderator. She believes that the panel presents a unique opportunity for both male and female entrepreneurs to gain direct insight on establishing their own path to success. Also, those seeking funding will learn how to gain the attention of investors—the holy grail of entrepreneurship that less than 3% of all startups achieve.
“I have moderated panels before, but this panel in particular brings together a group of high caliber of entrepreneurs and investors that one becomes almost anxious to draw out of them all of the factors that made them so successful,” says Gray. “Of the approximate 3% of startups that are funded, women entrepreneurs receive about 2% of that small amount! Women who receive funding have accomplished something very special—so they have a lot to offer other entrepreneurs who can learn from their success.”
So, when we sit down next to people who have accomplished so much, we ask “How did they become so successful?” and “How can one gain the attention of investors?”, but often the follow-on questions yield the tidbits of advice that help entrepreneurs overcome their own entrepreneurial challenges and hurdles to obtaining capital.
Registration is now open for the free event.
Jeanne Gray is a serial entrepreneur and is founder and publisher of American Entrepreneurship Today®. She has been honored by the US SBA as New Jersey Journalist of the Years and a NJBIZ Top 50 Women in business. She may be reached at pr@AmericanEntrepreneurship.com and will review any questions posed for possible inclusion in the panel discussion.
