I was so honored to be the inaugural speaker kicking off this series of lectures! Here’s iFoundry’s post:
Cory Levy, an 18-year-old entrepreneur from Houston, Texas, spoke to iFoundry students and other guests about his experiences with entrepreneurship at the first in the WOW student development series on Friday, 16 October 2009 in NCSA auditorium. Levy emphasized the importance of networking, professionalism and embracing failure to learn for future opportunities. After Levy’s presentation, a panel of young entrepreneurs (U of I students and alum), spoke of their experiences with entrepreneurial ventures.
The WOW Student Development Series is a collaborative initiative of iFoundry, theTechnology Entrepreneur Center, the Undergraduate Programs Office in the College of Engineering and Engineering Career Services. This new series is dedicated to helping students develop the intellectual, creative, and entrepreneurial capacity necessary for success in the engineering profession.
Pictures of Levy’s presentation can be found on iFoundry’s Facebook page here.
I have partnered up with Daniel Brusilovsky at Teens in Tech Networks to produce the 2009 NextGen Conference. NextGen is a one-day conference at Stanford University in the heart of Silicon Valley. NextGen’s mission is to help you succeed, by providing lectures, panels and networking opportunities on areas that are vital in building and maintaining your business.
We’ll have a business plan competition, where startups and entrepreneurs can go on stage, and pitch some investors of their idea. The panel of judges will then go over the business plan, and pick a winner. So far, we have Kevin Hartz, co-founder/CEO of Eventbrite, Ann Miura-Ko, Partner at Maples Investments, David Lee, a partner at Ron Conway’s investment firm, SV Angel, LLC, and Skye Lee and Brian Phillips (early PayPal employees and co-founders of Thread).
If you are interested in sponsoring, or speaking, please contact Daniel or myself through the contact page. You can go ahead and register for a ticket today.
