NY’s Venture Challenge Is Tomorrow—Last Chance to Get Tickets

Xconomy Forum: New York's Venture Challenge—Building Big to Last

We’re really excited about tomorrow morning’s Xconomy Forum—New York’s Venture Challenge: Building Big to Last. Tickets have been selling fast, and today is the last chance to get yours without paying the walk-in rate. The event starts at 9:30 am, with networking and coffee beginning an hour before that. So grab those last tickets and we will see you there.

It should be a lesson-filled morning packed with insights about how entrepreneurs and investors can work together to build great companies. The event takes place at AppNexus headquarters at 28 West 23rd Street in Manhattan. You can get your tickets and see the detailed agenda here.

The event will feature a trio of entrepreneur-investor stories from three of New York’s most interesting and exciting startups.

Neil Blumenthal, a co-founder of super-hot online designer frames and eyeglasses company Warby Parker, will be teamed with Joel Cutler of General Catalyst Partners, one of Warby Parker’s lead investors. Ben Wolin of Everyday Health, a rising media company specializing in online information about health, will be joined on stage by Habib Kairouz from Rho Capital Partners.

And opening the morning will be an entrepreneur-VC story from Tumblr, with founder David Karp chatting with one of his main venture capital backers, Bijan Sabet of Spark Capital. As a special treat, their interviewer is Roger Ehrenberg of IA Ventures, himself a well-known and very astute investor.

The goal of these sessions is to bring out insights about how VCs and entrepreneurs can team up to build great companies designed to last for the long term, and not just to be flipped. There’s plenty of time for audience questions, and for networking before, during, and after the event.

And the three founder-investor stories are not all that’s on tap for tomorrow’s event. To round things out, we will be featuring short “burst” presentations from other startups and initiatives affecting the startup community. They include: NY Angels chairman Brian Cohen; Frederick Cook, co-founder and CEO of Moveline; Samantha Saturn from comiXology; and 
Nate Westheimer, president of NY Tech Meetup.

There isn’t much time left. So, again, get your tickets here. And I hope to see you tomorrow!

Author: Robert Buderi

Bob is Xconomy's founder and chairman. He is one of the country's foremost journalists covering business and technology. As a noted author and magazine editor, he is a sought-after commentator on innovation and global competitiveness. Before taking his most recent position as a research fellow in MIT's Center for International Studies, Bob served as Editor in Chief of MIT's Technology Review, then a 10-times-a-year publication with a circulation of 315,000. Bob led the magazine to numerous editorial and design awards and oversaw its expansion into three foreign editions, electronic newsletters, and highly successful conferences. As BusinessWeek's technology editor, he shared in the 1992 National Magazine Award for The Quality Imperative. Bob is the author of four books about technology and innovation. Naval Innovation for the 21st Century (2013) is a post-Cold War account of the Office of Naval Research. Guanxi (2006) focuses on Microsoft's Beijing research lab as a metaphor for global competitiveness. Engines of Tomorrow (2000) describes the evolution of corporate research. The Invention That Changed the World (1996) covered a secret lab at MIT during WWII. Bob served on the Council on Competitiveness-sponsored National Innovation Initiative and is an advisor to the Draper Prize Nominating Committee. He has been a regular guest of CNBC's Strategy Session and has spoken about innovation at many venues, including the Business Council, Amazon, eBay, Google, IBM, and Microsoft.