BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230312T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231105T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20231108T194841Z UID:796FEB7E-D7B6-4FEC-8CE2-74B0D6BF347C DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230418T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230418T203000 DESCRIPTION:Grants & Non-Dilutive Funding\n\nApril 18\, 2023 | 7:00 pm - 8: 30 pm ET | CIC\, One Broadway\, Cambridge\, MA\n\nAttendees will have the option to join us in-person at the Cambridge Innovation Center (CIC) in Ke ndall Square\, Cambridge\, MA or online via Zoom.\n\nAre you trying to lau nch or grow a startup business?\n\nDo you need money but just can’t find it?\n\nNot ready for angels or VC investors? Or already turned down?\n\nN eed to build your company and need money to do it – but how to do that?\ n\nThis panel will address these questions and help you understand:\n\n- H ow to build your company from nothing to something.\n- How to do it withou t VC or angel money.\n- How to get non-investor first funding and further cash equivalents\n- What are SBIR grants? How they can help …how to get them?\n- Other sources of non-dilutive funding\n\nThis panel will focus on getting initial money from non-traditional sources when VCs and angels wi ll not help\, and friends and family are tapped out. A key advantage of th is funding for the founder is that unlike VC or angel funding\, you don’ t give away any of your stock – there is no dilution of your founder’s stock position. The panelists will speak from experience to show you non- dilutive sources of finding including SBIRs and governmental grants\, stra tegic partnering and customer-funded development\, and venture debt.\n\nAn other key advantage of this non-dilutive funding is that it may make it ea sier to later get a seed or A-round of VC or angel funding. Investors want to see something before they invest. Validation that comes from an SBIR g rant or money already invested from non-dilutive sources is a pleasing thi ng for investors to see.\n\nYet it takes money to make your company into s omething to interest investors. It is a catch-22. This panel offers techni ques to show you how to break out of that conundrum – to take your compa ny from nothing to something\, and to do so without VC or angel funding\, using grants and non-dilutive funding.\n\nCo-sponsored by: Boston Entrepre neurs’ Network (ENET)\n\nSpeaker(s): \, \, \, \n\nAgenda: \nEvent Schedu le\n\nApril 18\, 2023\n\n6:00 pm ET\nIn-person Registration\nIn-person reg istration and networking\n\n7:00 pm ET\nIntroduction\nENET Chairperson's a nnouncements\n\n7:10 pm ET\neMinute Pitch\nUp to 3 Startup pitches\n\n7:25 pm ET\nExpert Panel\n4 expert speakers on the night’s topic\n\n8:10 pm ET\nQ & A\nModerator and Audience Q & A with the speakers\n\n8:30 pm ET\nN etworking\nPanelists will be available afterward for responses to individu al questions.\n\nBldg: CIC\, One Broadway\, Cambridge\, CIC\, One Broadway \, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, Massachusetts\, United States\, 02142\, Vir tual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/358669 LOCATION:Bldg: CIC\, One Broadway\, Cambridge\, CIC\, One Broadway\, Cambri dge\, Massachusetts\, Massachusetts\, United States\, 02142\, Virtual: htt ps://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/358669 ORGANIZER:karthiganesan@yahoo.com SEQUENCE:3 SUMMARY:Grants & Non-Dilutive Funding URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/358669 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><h1>Grants &amp\; Non-Dilutive Funding</h1>\n <p><span class="date-loc">April 18\, 2023 | 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm ET | CIC\, O ne Broadway\, Cambridge\, MA</span></p>\n<p>Attendees will have the option to join us in-person at the Cambridge Innovation Center (CIC) in Kendall Square\, Cambridge\, MA or online via Zoom.</p>\n<p>Are you trying to laun ch or grow a startup business?</p>\n<p>Do you need money but just can&rsqu o\;t find it?</p>\n<p>Not ready for angels or VC investors? Or already tur ned down?</p>\n<p>Need to build your company and need money to do it &ndas h\; but how to do that?</p>\n<p><strong>This panel will address these ques tions and help you understand:</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>How to build your c ompany from nothing to something.</li>\n<li>How to do it without VC or ang el money.</li>\n<li>How to get non-investor first funding and further cash equivalents</li>\n<li>What are SBIR grants?&nbsp\; How they can help &hel lip\;how to get them?</li>\n<li>Other sources of non-dilutive funding</li> \n</ul>\n<p>This panel will focus on getting initial money from non-tradit ional sources when VCs and angels will not help\, and friends and family a re tapped out.&nbsp\; &nbsp\;A key advantage of this funding for the found er is that unlike VC or angel funding\, you don&rsquo\;t give away any of your stock &ndash\; there is no dilution of your founder&rsquo\;s stock po sition. &nbsp\;The panelists will speak from experience to show you non-di lutive sources of finding including SBIRs and governmental grants\, strate gic partnering and customer-funded development\, and venture debt.</p>\n<p >Another key advantage of this non-dilutive funding is that it may make it easier to later get a seed or A-round of VC or angel funding.&nbsp\; Inve stors want to see something before they invest. &nbsp\;Validation that com es from an SBIR grant or money already invested from non-dilutive sources is a pleasing thing for investors to see.</p>\n<p>Yet it takes money to ma ke your company into something to interest investors. It is a catch-22. Th is panel offers techniques to show you how to break out of that conundrum &ndash\; to take your company from nothing to something\, and to do so wit hout VC or angel funding\, using grants and non-dilutive funding.</p><br / ><br />Agenda: <br /><h2>Event Schedule</h2>\n<p><span class="date-loc">Ap ril 18\, 2023</span></p>\n<div class="event-index">\n<div class="row">\n<d iv class="col-sm-3">6:00 pm ET</div>\n<div class="col-sm-3">In-person Regi stration</div>\n<div class="col-sm-6">In-person registration and networkin g</div>\n</div>\n<div class="row">\n<div class="col-sm-3">7:00 pm ET</div> \n<div class="col-sm-3">Introduction</div>\n<div class="col-sm-6">ENET Cha irperson's announcements</div>\n</div>\n<div class="row">\n<div class="col -sm-3">7:10 pm ET</div>\n<div class="col-sm-3">eMinute Pitch</div>\n<div c lass="col-sm-6">Up to 3 Startup pitches</div>\n</div>\n<div class="row">\n <div class="col-sm-3">7:25 pm ET</div>\n<div class="col-sm-3">Expert Panel </div>\n<div class="col-sm-6">4 expert speakers on the night&rsquo\;s topi c</div>\n</div>\n<div class="row">\n<div class="col-sm-3">8:10 pm ET</div> \n<div class="col-sm-3">Q &amp\; A</div>\n<div class="col-sm-6">Moderator and Audience Q &amp\; A with the speakers</div>\n</div>\n<div class="row"> \n<div class="col-sm-3">8:30 pm ET</div>\n<div class="col-sm-3">Networking </div>\n<div class="col-sm-6">Panelists will be available afterward for re sponses to individual questions.</div>\n</div>\n</div> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR