Startup Experiences

#open4innovation Switchpitch Whitehouse Demo Day at the Department of Commerce in Washington D.C.

With team @MSFTStartups at #ERANYC demo day!!!

.@MSFTVentures city meetup tour across San Francisco, Chicago, Austin, D.C, L.A

Teaching MVP 2.0 at the Heartland Mobile Council Brands+Startups program. Here's what we covered, Minimum Viable Product and the Startup Reference Guide

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An honor to meet and mentor Nermin Saad, Founder of Handasiyat as part of the GIST initiative at 1871. 

Had an amazing day meeting Padmasree Warrior from Cisco. Loved her story about her American dream coming true, the amazing work she has been doing and the new wave of IoT.. an absolute delight and thanks to 1871 for the great experience. 

Sonal Mane, startup portfolio manager for Microsoft, discusses what she looks for in a startup, the value of good board members and advisers, and the intuitive nature of finding a good co-founder.

Here's an interview with Chicago Tribune BlueSky Innovation - discussing startups, Chicago and finding co-founders.

Some pictures from the Ms.Tech Pitch Training Camp Opening day that I hosted at Microsoft Chicago. 

Highlights from the Lightbank Innovation day 2014 including a fireside chat with Mayor Rahm Emanuel, an amazing talk from Sam Yagan and lots of pitches.

A few pictures from Rahul Sood's (GM of Microsoft Ventures) visit to Chicago. We held a startup roundtable and Young VCs panel at Catapult Chicago. The event was co-organized by VentureUP - a community for VCs, by VCs

A few pictures from Rahul Sood's (GM of Microsoft Ventures) visit to Chicago, captured during the 1871 event. Find more pictures on Howard Tullman's blog here. We also announced the Microsoft 1871 partnership during this event. 

Mark Cuban visited 1871. An amazing speaker and a great human being, he stood for hours to make sure everyone had a picture. Here's mine with the 1871 staff! More pictures here.

Mentoring last year @Lean_Chicago after talking about #CustomerDevelopment!!

Mindie Kaplan shares her story at the #Microsoft Women's event #Chicago

.@TroyHenikoff kicks it off @techstars #Chicago development demos pic.twitter.com/k5bBWeT5Dh