Speaking Panel: Thursday, 9/22, 4 pm: Questrom Room 406
Learn how to prepare your company for entrepreneurial growth and financing. How do entrepreneurs, financiers and consultants approach the challenges of raising capital and scaling their businesses? Panel discussion moderated by Questrom faculty, one of Boston’s leading law firms and outside experts. 4 – 7 pm on September 22nd. Additionally, discussion will be followed by a reception in Questrom’s Ground Floor Atrium. Sponsorship provided by Gesmer Updegrove LLP and BU’s BUzz Lab. Open to all BU students.
Moderator: Steve Snyder, Gesmer Updegrove
Panelists:
- Ryan Traeger, Entrepreneur
- John Murphy, Venture Capitalist
- Barry Horwitz, Questrom School of Business
Speaking Panel: Thursday, 9/22, 4 pm: Questrom Room 406
About Gesmer Updegrove
The word “unique” is the most misused word in the English language. By definition, it means “one of a kind or without equal.” Yet we hear the word used over and over and over again.
One of the things that makes our firm unique is that approximately 80% of our clients are tech companies. So while other firms may see a particular issue 5 or 10 or 15 times a year, we typically see that same issue 25 or 50 or 75 times a year. We additionally have worked with several thousand early stage companies over our 25 year history and have been involved in many hundreds of financings. Furthermore, we probably do more domestic and international licensing and data protection work than any other firm in the area. In short, we live and breathe the life cycles of tech companies.
About BU’s BUzz Lab
You can study entrepreneurship at many places, but you can truly live it at BU.
Furthermore, and as a major, urban research university in the heart of the innovation hub of Boston, BU offers a range of opportunities for all students, from those with a budding curiosity in entrepreneurship, to those with an idea they want to launch. Additionally, and with clubs for undergrad and graduate students, events on and off campus, workshops by industry experts and more, BU will fit your interests no matter how you want to plug into entrepreneurship ecosystem.
