NECINA Venture Club

Entrepreneurial Decision Making

Roundtable Discussion led by Michael Gordon

   Time: 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm, March 13th, 2008 
Venue: Deloitte, 1000 Winter St, Waltham, MA
Cost: Free (Invitation Only) to NECINA Venture Club member

& NECINA Business Plan Contest participant

Entrepreneurs face different challenges everyday when starting and growing their business. Making choices is an act of practicing entrepreneurship. Decision making ability is one of the most critical skills differentiating success or failure.

How do you improve decision making skill and make speedy and accurate judgment for complex business matters everyday? How does the business decisions you make impact your partners, employees, investors and families? How do you ensure choices you made could be followed by proper executions?

Join NECINA Venture Club Roundtable Discussion on Entrepreneur Decision Making led by Mr. Michael Gordon, author of Entrepreneurship 101:  How to Turn Your Idea into a Money Machine”.

Agenda

6
:30 - 7:00 Registration & Networking

7:00 - 7:15 Remark by the Organizer & Sponsors

7:15 – 8:15 Case study introduction by Mr. Michael Gordon

8:15 – 8:30 Roundtable discussion

8:30
- 9:00 Networking & Book Signing

RSVP: This is an invitation only event exclusive to NECINA Venture Club Members and NECINA Brown Rudnick Biz-plan Contest participants. For other people who are interested, please fill up the application form (link) and send email to vclub@necina.org

Event Sponsor: Deloitte

About Michael Gordon:

Dr. Gordon has had extensive experience in diverse areas of entrepreneurship, education, public speaking and science. He holds a PhD in Organic, Organo-metallic and Polymer Chemistry from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a BS from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. After twelve years in research, development and management at Polaroid Corporation and Celanese Plastics Company, he pursued a career in entrepreneurship.

Dr. Gordon founded four companies: a plastics injection molding company; a company which made products for the control of static electricity (Plastic Systems, Inc); a network for entrepreneurs and investors (the Venture-Preneurs Network); and a private investment and consulting firm (Quantum Ventures). One of his companies, Plastic Systems, Inc., was sold to a public British company. He is currently building an internet venture, AngelDeals.com, a virtual global network which brings capital resources to emerging ventures.

He holds several patents and publications, and during his career in chemistry, he discovered a unique chemical reaction. He has developed a unique framework for essential entrepreneurial thriving forces and a value chain for competitive advantage for multi-divisional corporations. Dr. Gordon has had extensive teaching/speaking engagements, nationally as well as internationally - Southeast Asia, Latin America and Europe.

About NECINA Venture Club:

NECINA Venture Club is exclusive entrepreneurial community for members to share experience, network and best practice across global economy. NECINA Venture Club organizes advanced workshops and discussion forums specific to challenging issues faced by the executives. Club membership is limited to advisors, established entrepreneurs with mature business operation and selective early stage entrepreneurs with concrete business plan. NECINA Venture Club is the premier business club in New England focus on promoting entrepreneurship and bridging the gap between business in the US and Asia.