Tufts $100k New Ventures Competition – Finals

Joyce Cummings Center 177 College Avenue, Medford, United States

Join us in person or on zoom to support the Finalists in the Tufts $100k New Ventures Competition Virtual Live Finals! Teams will virtually live pitch in one of 3 tracks - General Technology, Social Impact, or Healthcare and Life Science for opportunity to collectively win over $200k in cash and in-kind services! We are hosting 3 "watch parties" on the 3rd floor of the Joyce Cummings Center. Enjoy some pizza and refreshments and support the Finalists!

Free

New Frontiers ETA Conference

MIT Sandberg Center 50 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA

The MIT Sloan School of Management invites you to join its annual ETA conference: New Frontiers in SMB Acquisition - People, Process & Technology. The conference will serve as a beginner friendly introduction to a career in small business acquisition, and serve as a platform to network with students, searchers, operators, investors, and policy makers.

The conference aims to promote SMB ownership as a catalyst for social impact. We will highlight the success of diverse operators using innovative strategies and technologies.

We will explore small business ownership as a career path regardless of prior experience, skillset, race, ethnicity and gender.

TEN Lunch & Learn: Compliance Culture for Growing Businesses

ArentFox Schiff,1301 Avenue of the Americas, 42nd Floor NY, United States

A new or growing business comes with an endless list of to-dos geared toward product development, sales, marketing, and fundraising. That to-do list should also include understanding how your business is regulated and how to identify and mitigate compliance risks.

Join Brittany Sokoloff and ArentFox Schiff partner and Tufts alumni Alexander Birkhold for a hybrid lunch and learn to discuss why you want to establish a compliance culture early and what steps you can take to easily do that. Lunch and cheat-sheet included!

Entrepreneurial Workshop: Customer Discovery Review

In this workshop, NSF iCorp alum and award winning medical device entrepreneur, Idicula Mathew, will review customer discovery best practices, audit the research done to date by each team, and help you plan for ongoing customer research.

Entrepreneurial Workshop: Segmentation and Go To Market Strategy

We will then help you explore how market selection leads to building buyer personas and an associated buying process, starting with how your economic buyer or end user becomes aware they have a problem, search for and evaluate a solution, then make a decision to buy or adopt that solution.

Jumbopreneur Panel

Join us for a fireside chat with the alumni of Tufts Venture Accelerator 2022 and learn how they utilized resources from Tufts to build their ventures from the ground up.