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The Reflector, March 2021
Entrepreneur’s Network – 7:00PM – Tuesday, March 2
PIVOTING: WHY, WHEN, AND HOW ONLINE WEBINAR
Registration: https://boston-enet.org/event-3892680/Registration ENET Member: Free Non-Members – $10.00 For the founder and entrepreneur launching a startup company, as well as the CEO and officers in a startup or early stage company, it is important to understand the market for your products or services, the needs of your customers and the value proposition you offer, and to be able to make adjustments and even radical changes of direction as facts and circumstances warrant.
On March 2, 2021, PIVOTING is the topic for our ENET webinar panel. To address this topic, ENET will present three CEO speakers, all with much experience to share from successful pivots they led and achieved in their startup and early stage companies, plus lessons they have learned and will share with us. Some of the experiences shared will include pivoting in the face of COVID-19. Our speakers are all founders and CEOs, one in life sciences, one in tech, and a third with a company that provides a mobile app launching platform for nonprofits. Additionally, one of our three speakers is also an angel investor. Our moderator and chief meeting organizer is Boston attorney and ENET Chair Emeritus Rob Adelson.
That ability to make the needed adjustments and more radical changes to address the current market and customer needs is often called pivoting and the ability to Hope you will join us for this timely ENET webinar pivot. 7-830pm ET on March 2, and perhaps for online netFor angel investors and VCs, generally the most im- working before and after the speakers. The webinar portant thing they look for in a potential startup or early will include 20 minutes of audience and moderator Q stage company investment, is the quality of the CEO and A. In the second round of networking 830-9pm, you and management team. That is true in tech, life science, will have the chance to join tables of four with each of e-commerce and across the board, but most true in the the three speakers and our moderator at four separate evolving world of the innovation economy. And one of tables. This gives you a second chance for follow-on the big reasons investors place so much emphasis on questions and to further get to know our speakers in a the quality of management, is that surprises happen, more personal way. things seldom go according to script. The quality CEO will recognize when the business plan is just not work- Agenda: ing. If mistakes are made, the wise CEO recognizes 5:30 – 6:45 – Networking on Grapevine Network the mistake in timely fashion, then promptly makes the 7:00 - 7:10 PM - ENET Chairperson’s announcements needed pivot before too much time and money is lost – 7:10 - 7:25 PM – eMinute Pitch - Up to 3 Startup comto find the right approach, and to do so more than once panies’ presentations as needed until the company is back on course and 7:25 - 8:10 PM - expert speakers on the night’s topic 8:10 - 8:30 PM – Moderator and Audience Q & A with succeeding in its mission. the speakers Pivoting and its importance to the startup and early 8:30 – 9:00 PM - Networking on Grapevine Network stage companies has become all the more critical in (all times are USA Eastern Daylight time) these fast changing times as result or the enormous A question and answer session will follow the panel changes wrought on business, the economy and every- discussion, and panelists will be available afterward for one lives as result of the COVID-19 pandemic. responses to individual questions.
