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10 more days left to apply to Pitch at WAMVentures Forum in NYC. Apply by June 12, 2016 (Sunday, 12 midnight EST). Apply at: contact “at” wamventures.com.  Submit 1-page Executive Summary with subject: Pitch at WAMVentures Forum 6/16/16

WAMVentures Forum: Equity Crowdfunding & Alternative Funding Models

Join WAMVentures Forum and meet the women leaders & experts focused on equity crowdfunding and alternative funding models.

Meet the women leaders & experts focused on Equity Crowdfunding & Alternative Funding Models in NYC, Pelli Wang - Principal, SeedInvest; Erica Duignan Minnihan - Managing Partner, I000Angels and Georgia P. Quinn - Co-Founder, iDisclose. You’ll learn the dynamics, compliance and investors’ tips regarding equity crowdfunding and how investment-ready businesses are selected to connect with networks of accredited investors. Network with the inclusive WAMVentures community!

Meet the SPEAKERS:

Pelli Wang, Principal, SeedInvest - investor & startup enthusiast. SeedInvest is a leading equity crowdfunding platform and early-stage VC fund. Prior to joining SeedInvest, she worked at Lean Startup Machine, which is a NYC startup that was part of the TechStars accelerator. She led their business development efforts in Asia/Greater China and built key partnerships with tech leaders and influencers. She also spent time in various investing roles at Capmark and Barclays Capital and graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with concentrations in Finance, Management and Accounting with a minor in East Asian Studies.

Erica Duignan Minnihan, Managing Partner, 1000 Angels.  Erica is Managing Partner at 1000 Angels, a private venture investment network for select accredited investors, family offices, and venture funds. 1000 Angels enables accredited investors to build a high-growth venture portfolio free of management fees, carried interest or capital commitments. Erica graduated from Columbia University Business School and University of California - Los Angeles (UCLA).

Georgia P. Quinn, CEO & Co-founder, iDisclose.  iDisclose is an  adaptive web-based application that enables entrepreneurs to prepare customized institutional grade disclosure documents for crowdfunding and private financings a fraction of the time and cost. Like TurboTax, iDisclose empowers entrepreneurs to do it themselves, because companies shouldn’t spend all their money raising money. Heralded by Thomson-Reuters as a Top Female Attorney in NYC, Georgia also serves as of counsel at the leading firm in crowdfunding, Ellenoff, Grossman & Schole, specializing in facilitating financial transactions and compliance with the JOBS Act regulations. A foremost expert in corporate finance, she has worked on over $1 billion in business transactions over the course of her legal career. Georgia is a graduate of Columbia Law School and New York University.

HOST & Moderator: Veronica Guzman, Founder, WAMVentures Group LLC

WHEN: June 16, 2016 (Thursday), 5:30pm-9pm

REGISTER EARLY

Pitch Session: invited entrepreneurs; preference for companies that demonstrate strong traction including scalable revenues, well-formed teams, investment-grade, solid customer base, achieved MVP or unique technology or unique business solution. Presenting team must have at least one female founder/co-founder.

* * APPLY to PITCH at: contact “at” wamventures.com. Submit your 1-page executive summary by June 12, 2016 (12pm midnight EST).  * *

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WAMVentures Forum: Equity Crowdfunding & Alternative Funding Models

June 16, 2016 in NYC (5:30-9pm)

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WAMVentures Forum: Equity Crowdfunding & Alternative Funding Models

June 16, 2016 in NYC (5:30-9pm)

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WAMVentures Forum: Equity Crowdfunding & Alternative Funding Models

Join WAMVentures Forum and meet the women leaders & experts focused on equity crowdfunding and alternative funding models.

Meet the women leaders & experts focused on Equity Crowdfunding & Alternative Funding Models in NYC, Pelli Wang - Principal, SeedInvest; Erica Duignan Minnihan - Managing Partner, I000Angels and Georgia P. Quinn - CEO &Co-Founder, iDisclose. You'll learn the dynamics, compliance and investors' tips regarding equity crowdfunding and how investment-ready businesses are selected to connect with networks of accredited investors. Network with the inclusive WAMVentures community!

Meet the SPEAKERS:

Pelli Wang, Principal, SeedInvest - investor & startup enthusiast. SeedInvest is a leading equity crowdfunding platform and early-stage VC fund. Prior to joining SeedInvest, she worked at Lean Startup Machine, which is a NYC startup that was part of the TechStars accelerator. She led their business development efforts in Asia/Greater China and built key partnerships with tech leaders and influencers. She also spent time in various investing roles at Capmark and Barclays Capital and graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with concentrations in Finance, Management and Accounting with a minor in East Asian Studies.

Erica Duignan Minnihan, Managing Partner, 1000 Angels.  Erica is Managing Partner at 1000 Angels, a private venture investment network for select accredited investors, family offices, and venture funds. 1000 Angels enables accredited investors to build a high-growth venture portfolio free of management fees, carried interest or capital commitments. Erica graduated from Columbia University Business School and University of California - Los Angeles (UCLA).

Georgia P. Quinn, CEO & Co-founder, iDisclose.  iDisclose is an  adaptive web-based application that enables entrepreneurs to prepare customized institutional grade disclosure documents for crowdfunding and private financings a fraction of the time and cost. Like TurboTax, iDisclose empowers entrepreneurs to do it themselves, because companies shouldn't spend all their money raising money. Heralded by Thomson-Reuters as a Top Female Attorney in NYC, Georgia also serves as of counsel at the leading firm in crowdfunding, Ellenoff, Grossman & Schole, specializing in facilitating financial transactions and compliance with the JOBS Act regulations. A foremost expert in corporate finance, she has worked on over $1 billion in business transactions over the course of her legal career. Georgia is a graduate of Columbia Law School and New York University.

HOST & Moderator: Veronica Guzman, Founder, WAMVentures Group LLC

WHEN: June 16, 2016 (Thursday), 5:30pm-9pm

REGISTER EARLY

Pitch Session: invited entrepreneurs; preference for companies that demonstrate strong traction including scalable revenues, well-formed teams, investment-grade, solid customer base, achieved MVP or unique technology or unique business solution. Presenting team must have at least one female founder/co-founder.

* * APPLY to PITCH at: contact "at" wamventures.com. Submit your 1-page executive summary by June 12, 2016 (12pm midnight EST).  * *

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WAMVentures Thanks Supporters & Community

WAMVentures thanks our past speakers:

Jeanne M. Sullivan, Sullivan Adventures and StarVest Partners

Tereza Nemessanyi, Microsoft

Lori Hoberman, Hoberman Law Group PLLC

Sarah Miyazawa LaFleur, M.M. LaFleur

Nathalie Molina Nino, Self-Made LLC & Entrepreneurs@Athena

Milena Berry, Power to Fly

Ivory Chafin-Blanchard, Ivory Digital

Stephanie Joy Benedetto, Queen of Raw

Tamar Donikyan, Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP

Olga Vidisheva, Shoptiques.com

Jan Mercer Dahms,  6-Figures and Swig (Sealed with Intentional Goodness)

Leslie Grossman, Leslie Grossman Leadership and Women's Leadership Exchange

Natalia Oberti Noguera, Pipeline Angels (formerly Pipeline Fellowship)

Stacey Ferreira, AdMoar, MySocialCloud and 2 Billion Under 20

Heidi Sieck, Civic Hall and formerly with Democracy.com

Kate Berg, Verse.com and Stamford (CT) Innovation Center

Lois Bruu, Social Enterprise Executive and formerly with Concero Connect

Bob Knorpp, The Cool Beans Group & Host - The Bean Cast

Sonali Anoush Pillay, Zola and formerly with Browsy

Arthur Tu, Elemental Path, CogniToys and LearnBop

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WAMVentures also thanks its Community Partners:

ThoughtWorks

Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP

General Assembly

Stay tuned for updates. See you soon and keep building incredible businesses!

CONNECT with the WAMVentures community!

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WAMVentures advances entrepreneurship for women & diverse founders and welcomes high impact leaders!

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WAMVentures: Women Game-Changers Lead!

WAMVentures celebrates Women's History Month on March 5, 2015 (Thursday evening) in NYC, our theme: Women Game-Changers Lead!

Meet leading women who support women entrepreneurs and share the challenges of entrepreneurship & winning strategies such as: structuring your business, raising capital, leveraging technology and scaling your business.

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:

Jeanne M. Sullivan, Chief Inspiration Officer - Advisor, Speaker, Connector (Co-Founder, StarVest Partners, a leading NYC-based venture capital firm with $400MM under management, Board of New York Venture Capital Association, Board Member Women's Leadership Council at Harvard Kennedy School, Astia Global Board of Trustees, Executive Team at eProvStudio)

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Tereza Nemessanyi, Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Microsoft (East Region); leading Microsoft's work with Startups in New York; passionate about women in high-growth entrepreneurship. As Founder/CEO of web startup Honestly Now, she was named one of the Forbes "Ten Female Entrepreneurs to Watch". She earned a dual MA/MBA at The Wharton School and Lauder Institute & was the first employee of CETV (IPO in 1995).

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Lori Hoberman, Founder, Hoberman Law Group PLLC (Co-Founder of IMG Labs, a new innovation incubator, Chair of MIT Enterprise Forum in NYC and a Mentor with 37 Angels; named by AlleyWatch as one of the "20 Awesome People to in the New York Tech Scene You Need to Know". 

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Sarah Miyazawa LaFleur, Founder & CEO, M.M. LaFleur (Raised $2MM in venture capital. M.M. LaFleur is a new fashion label for professional women. Sarah serves on the Junior Board at International Rescue Committee and is a Harvard College graduate. As MM grows, its ethos remains the same: to make the purposeful woman look and feel beautiful, without having to work too hard at it.

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HOST:

Veronica Guzman, Founder, WAMVentures

OPEN FORUM: For women entrepreneurs seeking to raise capital, WAMVentures prefers entrepreneurs who have achieved some traction: loyal customer base, revenues, MVP, unique technology or unique business solution. For social entrepreneurs, focus on triple bottom-line impact (profit, purpose, people/planet). Send your 1-page executive summary for review to: contact "at" wamventures "dot" com

SPONSORS: email: contact "at" wamventures "dot" com

* Light refreshments during networking *

* *  REGISTER EARLY for entry : NO door registrations  PRIOR WAMVentures Forums have SOLD OUT*  *

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Are you launching your business or need to freshen up your brand? This is the must-attend forum to kick-off your 2015 initiatives!

Focus on how media & design are shaping businesses. Meet influential & innovative women guiding the next generation and designing memorable brands.

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WAMVENTURES FORUM: WOMEN IN MEDIA & DESIGN (2/5/15 in NYC)

Are you launching your business or need to freshen up your brand? This is the must-attend forum to kick-off your 2015 initiatives!

Focus on how media & design are shaping businesses. Meet influential & innovative women guiding the next generation and designing memorable brands. As in prior WAMVentures Forums, this is a curated forum with invited investors, advisors, mentors & influencers committed to advance women entrepreneurs.

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS: Nathalie Molina Niño, Co-Founder of Entrepreneurs@Athena, Athena Center for Leadership Studies at Barnard College. (Involved in the launch & growth of Lionbridge (NASDAQ: LIOX) into a $100 million operation in 6 years)

Ivory Chafin-Blanchard, Chief Digital Officer, Ivory Digital. (ID, Ivory Digital is a rated as a top NYC web design agency in 2014 for small business solutions.)

Milena Berry, Co-Founder and CEO, PowerToFly (Closing the gender gap in tech & helping millions of women around the world find innovative jobs)

Stephanie Joy Benedetto, CEO and Founder, Queen of Raw ((Advocate for women in business and sustainable fashion; Stephanie was recently nominated as a Founder to Watch by Women 2.0 and was a Finalist for the $1M Verizon Powerful Answers Award) 

HOST & MODERATOR: Veronica Guzman, Founder, WAMVentures

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PITCH SESSION: WAMVentures invites select attendees to pitch their business ideas and gain constructive feedback. Presenters are invited to focus on team recruitment and core business needs such as building digital presence.

For women entrepreneurs seeking to raise capital, WAMVentures prefers entrepreneurs who have achieved some traction: loyal customer base, revenues, MVP, unique technology or unique business solution. For social entrepreneurs, focus on triple bottom-line impact (profit, purpose, people/planet). Send your 1-page executive summary for review to: contact "at" wamventures "dot" com

Check-in & Networking: 6pm - 6:45pm Panel Start Time: 6:45pm

* Light refreshments during networking *

* REGISTER EARLY . Seating is limited and NO door registration. Prior forums have SOLD OUT. *

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WAMVentures advances entrepreneurship for women & diverse founders and welcomes high impact leaders!

WAMVentures is the trade name of WAM Ventures Group LLC

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WAMVentures sends Thanks and Happy Holidays!

Thank you to all those supporting the WAMVentures mission of advancing entrepreneurship for women & diverse founders and welcoming high impact leaders!

Team WAMVentures thanks the speakers from the 12/16/14 event in NYC: Women Entrepreneurs: Own Your Voice - Be Indy Jane!

Olga Vidisheva, Founder & CEO, Shoptiques.com

Leslie Grossman, Leslie Grossman Leadership & Co-Founder, Women's Leadership Exchange

Tamar Donikyan, Partner - Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP

Jan Mercer Dahms, Managing Director, PlumAlley.co and Founder, 6-Figures

We thank attendees and the women entrepreneurs who pitched their ideas & businesses.  It takes courage to get up & share business ideas & aspirations. WAM Ventures encourages more women entrepreneurs to pitch, gain constructive feedback & raise venture capital.

WAM Ventures also thanks experts, investors and influencers from 37 Angels, Cooper Union, DreamIt Ventures, Eisner Amper, Entrepreneurs Organization and Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses.

WAM Ventures thanks our community partners, ThoughtWorks and Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP.  For those who want to learn to code, visit our community partner, General Assembly and ask about the Opportunity Fund, a scholarship program aimed at providing hands-on education and career opportunities in technology to under-represented groups; remind General Assembly you heard from WAMVentures.

As we approach the New Year, WAM Ventures encourages all women & diverse founders to grow, raise capital and build meaningful & profitable companies. For social entrepreneurs, keep refining your impact strategies and focus on the 3Ps (profit, purpose and people/planet).

Team WAMVentures wishes you Happy Holidays and continued opportunities to celebrate prosperity & good health!

Follow WAMVentures on Twitter: @wamventures

Be connected to the WAMVentures community

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To Pitch or Sponsor email WAM Ventures: contact "at" wamventures "dot" com

For Pitch Candidates, preference for women-led and diverse-led companies with traction, i.e. customers, revenues, loyal viewers, MVP, unique technology or unique business solutions. For social entrepreneurs, focus on triple bottom-line impact.

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WAMVentures advances entrepreneurship for women & diverse founders and welcomes high impact leaders!

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WAMVentures Forum: Women Entrepreneurs - Own Your Voice - Be Indy Jane !

Join fellow entrepreneurs, mentors, advisors, investors & technology professionals / developers who support entrepreneurship for women!

December 16 (12/16), Tuesday, is Jane Austen's and Margaret Mead's birthday... a genius day.

WAM Ventures features independent women who have built sustainable businesses and are leaders moving women entrepreneurs forward.

Be Indy Jane with the WAMVentures community!

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Meet the Indy Janes of Today:

Jan Mercer Dahms, Managing Director at Plum Alley and Founder at 6-Figures

Tamar Donikyan, Partner at Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP

Leslie Grossman, Leslie Grossman Leadership and Co-Founder of Women's Leadership Exchange

Olga Vidisheva, Founder & CEO - Shoptiques.com

HOST & MODERATOR: Veronica Guzman, Founder - WAMVentures

LOCATION: NEW YORK CITY

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* *  REGISTER SOON - SPACE IS LIMITED * *

TO PITCH OR SPONSOR email:  contact "at"wamventures "dot" com

For Pitch Candidates, preference for those women-led companies with traction, i.e. customers, MVP, loyal viewers or unique technology. For social entrepreneurs, consider your triple bottom-line impact (profit, purpose, people).

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CONNECT. ENGAGE. ACT!

WAMVentures invites forward-thinking professionals, entrepreneurs, advisors, mentors & investors who support entrepreneurship for women founders. Meet inspiring, dynamic & action-oriented entrepreneurs & experts who will drive you toward ACTION!

* Host and...

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7 Inspirations

Quotes:  What Words Make You Fly? Dream: Lead with Your Imagination Champions: Who Inspires You? Create Freely: The Power of Creativity at the Moment Focus: What Do You Want to Accomplish? Share: Be Social Connect: How do the Pieces Fit Together?

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Wow & Delight

Wow Your Employees & Delight your Customers

These are 2 critical success factors while building your business. Do both and you will prosper!

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Focus on Goals

Stay focused on your goals.  Let go of distractions. Doing so will help you execute.

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Time is Gold and Life is Precious… use both well.

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4Ls: Learn… learn… learn for life The world favors the prepared mind. Enrich your mind every day… the person who enriches his mind brings forth abundance in life and enriches the minds of people he comes in contact.

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"Power of Play to Engage" Visit a technology or natural history museum… watch the kids play with the learning tools … and take some time to engage your mind too… play actively engages all our minds… young and adult minds can learn together.

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