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FIFPE Events

The Twaalfhoven Entrepreneurship Center holds seminars and events for all Fordham students, alumni and guests of the Center. Past events includes:

Date: Friday 4/16/2010   
Time:     10:00am-2:00pm
Location: 113 West 60th Street, Lowenstein Building, 12th Floor Lounge
Event: "The Art of Pitching to Angel Investors: Top NYC Angel Investors Are Pitched By Several Startups & Award $10,000 in Prize Money"

  1. This event is a must attend for anyone interested in learning more about pitching business ideas, venture capital/angel investing, and starting their own business. And for those who are Fordham Students or Alumni, come cheer on your peers in the final round of the Fordham Business Plan Competition!

  2. RSVP: Click Here
  3. For more details on the competition please visit the Fordham TEC website
Date:    Thursday 3/11/2010
Time:     6:00-8:00pm
Location: 113 West 60th Street, Lowenstein Building, 12th Floor Lounge
Event: "What do Investors Look For in Startups"
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Date:   Thursday 3/4/2010
Time:     6:30-9:00pm
Location: Sun Microsystems, 101 Park Avenue,4th floor, New York, NY 10017
Event:  "Search Engine Optimization for New Websites"
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Date:    Thursday 11/19/2009
Time:     8:00-10:00 pm
Location: 113 West 60th Street, Lowenstein Building, 12th Floor Lounge
Event: Structuring Financial Projections for Business Plans, Raising Capital & More
  1. Business plan composition strategies
  2. Finding capital to fund your ideas
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Workshop conducted by Fordham Accounting Professor Christine Tan, who is also an entrepreneur, experienced business plan advisor, and integral contributor to the Fordham Business Plan Competition Program. See her bio here!

View Notes: Presentation and Excel File Example

Date:    Wednesday 12/2/2009
Time:    5:00-8:00 pm
Location: McNally Amphitheatre, Fordham Law School, 140 West 62nd Street New York , NY 10023
Event: Pharma: Key Legal and Business Issues
  1. This program to be held in conjunction with the Fordham Intellectual Property Law Institute.
    Meet the speakers at a reception from 5:00 - 6:00 p.m. in the Platt Atrium.
    The discussion will begin at 6:00 p.m. in the McNally Amphitheatre.
  2. Registration is encouraged but not required: Corporatecenter@law.fordham.edu or (212) 636 -7985
  3. Learn more: http://law.fordham.edu/corporatecenter.htm
Date: Monday 12/7/2009   
Time:     9:00-10:30pm
Location: 113 West 60th Street, Lowenstein Building, 12th Floor Lounge
Event:Part 2. Advanced Structuring Financial Projections for Business Plans, Raising Capital & More
  1. Advanced Structuring for Business Plans
  2. Securing capital for your Business Plan
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Workshop conducted by Fordham Accounting Professor Christine Tan (Kindly see above

Date:    Monday 10/5/2009

Time:     6:30 pm
Location: McNally Amphitheatre, Fordham Law School, 140 West 62nd Street New York , NY 10023
Event: Lecture by William C. Dudley, President, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
  1. Everyone is welcome to attend: the program is open to the public without charge and followed by a reception in the Atrium.
  2. Registration is encouraged but not required: Corporatecenter@law.fordham.edu or (212) 636 -7985
  3. Learn more: http://law.fordham.edu/corporatecenter.htm
Date: Wednesday 10/14/2009   
Time:    6:30-8:00pm
Location:  113 West 60th Street, Lowenstein Building, 12th Floor Lounge
 Event: Food E-Night!
  1. Fordham Entrepreneur Society (FES) in conjunction with Bert Twaalfhoven Entrepreneurship Center (Fordham TEC) invites you to join us at our first Food E-Night of the semester with Seb Rametta, founder of ‘The Original SoupMan’ restaurants.
  2. Come hear Seb tell his story of how he founded and grew the restaurant. Samples of the delicious soup from ‘The Original SoupMan’ and bread will be served!

  3. Please contact fordham_es@yahoo.com if you have any questions.  Looking forward to seeing you!

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Event conducted by Fordham Director of Entrepreneurship Elizabeth Ingrassia & Fordham Entrepreneurship Society President Ritu Bhushan

Date:    Wednesday 10/28/2009
Time:     6:30 pm
Location: McNally Amphitheatre, Fordham Law School, 140 West 62nd Street New York , NY 10023
Event: Lecture by Commissioner Elisse B. Walter; U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
  1. Everyone is welcome to attend: the program is open to the public without charge and followed by a reception in the Atrium.
  2. Registration is encouraged but not required: Corporatecenter@law.fordham.edu or (212) 636 -7985
  3. Learn more: http://law.fordham.edu/corporatecenter.htm

 

Date: Monday 9/14/2009   
Time:    4:00-10:00pm
Location:  113 West 60th Street, Lowenstein Building
Event: MEET Successful Fordham Entrepreneurs. LEARN How To Turn Ideas Into Business!
  1. 4:00 – 5:30 pm Lowenstein Plaza Level South Lounge
    Entrepreneur Tune Up Shop– get your ideas into the right gear with this powerful, interactive forum where your plans are tested and improved through interaction with peers and experts. Rated by entrepreneurs as one of the most effective business and presentation-shaping workshops available.
  2. 6:00 – 8:00 pm Lowenstein 12th Floor Lounge
    Selected Entrepreneurs pitch their business plans to investors.
    Submit your plan to make a presentation to a panel of Angel VCs. With over $40 million raised nationally, this is one of the best opportunities available to entrepreneurs to reach the Investor community and begin the process that can get you funded. For those just getting started – watch this process an learn!
  3. 8:00 - 8:30-- Fordham Business Plan Competition Information Session and Hear From Last Year's Winners and other enterpreneurs how they turned their ideas into businesses
  4. 8:30 - 10:00 pm Student Pitching- Pitch your plan and let our experts give their response
  5. Meet prominent Venture Capitalists such as Mark Davis, DFJ Gotham Ventures and Stephen Brotman, Greenhill & Co. LLC.
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Event conducted by Fordham Director of Entrepreneurship Elizabeth Ingrassia & Fordham Entrepreneurship Society President Ritu Bhushan.

Date:    Tuesday 4/23/2009
Time:     6:00-8:00pm
Location:  Harvard Club of New York City, 27 West 44th Street New York, NY 10036
Event:  Learning Forum: Detailed Succession Planning

  1. Detailed Succession Planning- FIFPE (Fordham Institute for Family and Private Enterprise), in an interactive setting, will present critical and current issues regarding succession planning and its consequences

  2. Topics include; Selecting and grooming the successor, Leadership training and transfer, Timing of relinquishing roles, Issues that must be addressed, Right-sizing your business for the personalities and number of family members involved over time
  3. Event includes cocktail and networking hour
  4. More information can be found here
  5. RSVP to this event by e-mailing ingrassia@fordham.edu

Date:    Tuesday 4/20/2009
Time:     6:00-8:00pm
Location: 140 West 62 Street, Fordham Law School, Room 430 B and C
Event:  Learning Forum: Responding to the Crisis in Capitalism
  1. Responding to the Crisis in Capitalism: High Performance with High Integrity; featuring Ben W. Heineman, Jr. Former Senior VP and General Counsel, General Electric. Senior Fellow, Harvard Law School and Kennedy School of Government. Senior Counsel, Wilmer Hale
  2. After nearly two decades as a GE executive, where he built what is universally regarded as one of the most innovative and responsible corporate legal departments in the world, Heineman distilled his wide-ranging expertise on multinational corporations in the global economy and in society into his successful book, High Performance with High Integrity. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear his insights
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Date:    Tuesday 3/31/2009
Time:     6:00-8:00pm
Location: Greenberg Traurig, LLP, The MetLife Building- 200 Park Avenue , 15th floor
New York , NY 10166
Event: Learning Forum: Growing your business in a down economy
  1. Growing your business in a down economy-Some business wags say "flat" is the new "up", but our panel will give you practical strategies for INCREASING sales and profits - even in a recession!
  2. The U.S. economy is experiencing its worst crisis since at least 1982, and some say perhaps even since the Great Depression. Companies across the industry spectrum are struggling to manage these difficult times and the outlook for 2009 is highly uncertain. Private equity and venture funds are rationing capital and performing triage on their portfolios. While many businesses will founder, however, others will take advantage of the current environment to grow stronger and distance themselves from their competitors, positioning their companies for possibly significant outperformance when the economy improves.
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Date:    Tuesday 3/31/2009
Time:     6:30-8:00pm
Location: 140 West 62 Street, Fordham Law School, McNally Ampitheatre 
Event:  Learning Forum: "Is Chapter 11 Dead"
  1. Staurt M. Bernstein '75, Chief Judge United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York presents; "Is Chapter 11 Dead?"
  2. As Chief Judge of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, Stuart M. Bernstein ’75 has been involved in some of the most high profile bankruptcy cases in the country—including Musicland, Fabrikant, and Dreier LLP. Chief Judge Bernstein is uniquely positioned to speak on issues relating to bankruptcy and reorganization, including post-petition litigation involving lenders, professionals, and other third parties that dealt with the debtor prior to bankruptcy.
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Date:    Thursday 3/12/2009
Time:     6:00-7:30pm
Location: 140 West 62 Street, Fordham Law School, McNally Ampitheatre 
Event:  Learning Forum: David Rose- Pitching to Picking
  1. David Rose Presents…everything from pitching to picking.
  2. David Rose is Chairman of NY Angels , an investment group of 66 member who are entrepreneurs, CEO's, venture capitalists and business leaders who mentor and coach the entrepreneurs in whom they invest, serve on their boards, provide contacts and assist with team building, strategic planning and fundraising. David is an entrepreneurial executive and investor with extensive experience in high technology and communications, angel investments, finance and government. He was named by Inc. magazine to the 1998 Inc 500 list as CEO of one of the fastest growing private companies in America. Red Herring magazine has described him as "a patriarch of New York's Silicon Alley" and Crain's New York Business named him one of the City's 25 most influential technology executives. During the course of his career, Mr. Rose has supervised the creation of an intellectual property portfolio of issued patents appraised at over $100 million and negotiated both domestic and international corporate acquisitions. He was a prime author of the new data messaging protocols for the personal communications industry, and lectures frequently on issues relating to the development of the international information infrastructure.
  3. This event will be moderated by Charlie O'Donnell.
Date:    Thursday 11/20/2008
Time:     5:30-8pm
Location:  113 West 60th Street, Lowenstein Building, 12th Floor Lounge
Event: Learning Forum Workshops: Entreprenuerial Strategies
  1. How to Evaluate a Business Idea
  2. Structuring Projections For Venture Capital
  3. Pick-up Business Plan Evaluation Criteria & Guides.
Workshop conducted by Fordham Accounting Professor Christine Tan; Fordham Management Systems Professor Rachel Wells;  Fordham Professor and former VC Charlie O'Donnell; MCOB Law Partner Charles McCormick & Fordham Director of Entrepreneurship Elizabeth Ingrassia.
 
Slides from this Event are found here.