Pivoting Your Startup During a Global Pandemic

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Pivoting Your Startup During a Global Pandemic

November 30, 2020 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm EST

****VIRTUAL EVENT*****
Toronto Entrepreneurs, Startup & Business Coalition

NOTE – THIS IS A VIRTUAL EVENT
TIME : 6:30 PM ET
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COVID 19 Pandemic has brought upon has some very unique challenges which have forced startup founders to go back to the drawing board and re-think their entire game plan.
Join us for an information packed session where speak with founders, VC’s and Business experts to get an idea as to how the world will be in 2021
The conversation will be around successful pivot stories, tactics, strategies and planning for 2021

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Panelist:
Mahbod Moghadam – Internet Entrepreneur and Investor

Mahbod Moghadam is an internet entrepreneur and investor. He is the founder of Genius – an app annotating the meaning of lyrics – and Everipedia, which is the “chill” version of Wikipedia. Mahbod is Iranian but was born in Los Angeles. He is currently angel investing and looking to build a third app in Brooklyn.
Linked in – https://bit.ly/3nhFB8y

Alexa Binns – Investor on Jesse Draper’s team at Halogen Ventures
Alexa Binns is an investor with a talent for spotting the latest consumer trends and technology. She is on Jesse Draper’s team at Halogen Ventures where they invest in the top consumer technology startups with female founders. Previously Alexa was at Maven Ventures, another seed stage venture fund focused on consumer tech.
She launched the Cheeky brand with Target, as well as two national public health campaigns with MTV, Walgreens, and the NBA. Alexa’s specialty is deploying the latest marketing techniques: she wrote her master’s thesis on how to build a brand on YouTube, was nominated for a Mashable Award for social media marketing with Foursquare, and helped sell the Twitch influencer marketing platform NoScope.
She’s an angel investor in Chubbies, Flex, Mented, Sana Benefits, Chipper Cash, among others.
Linkedin – https://bit.ly/3ltap5S

Natasia Malaihollo – Head of Business Development for PopCom

$3.3 M raised from angels/VC’s, Techstars and a crowd-equity campaign on StartupEngine

Natasia Malaihollo is the Head of Business Development for PopCom, a tech company that builds software for automated retail. At PopCom, Natasia leads sales and client-relation management, tracks new markets and emerging trends, and develops strategic partnerships to guide long-term business objectives. Prior to PopCom, Natasia was the co-founder of Wyzerr, a tech company that gammifies surveys. At Wyzerr, Natasia grew its’ customer base to over 2,100 small and large businesses in 42 countries in less than 2 years, and counts Google, Facebook, P&G, Unilever, Walmart, and Disney as clients.

Linkedin – https://bit.ly/2IrVsSY

Diane Prince – Entrepreneur’s Secret Weapon, sold her first startup for $28 million dollars

Diane Prince is the entrepreneur’s secret weapon. She scaled a company from zero to million-dollar weekly sales, has been through 5 exits and sold her first startup to a public company for $28 million dollars. Now she helps entrepreneurs to start, scale and sell their companies too.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dianeprincejohnston/

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YOU CAN SIGNUP TO PITCH YOUR STARTUP TO INVESTORS AND AUDIENCE. 2 TYPES OF SLOTS
1) 3 MINUTE SLOT WITH PITCH & FEEDBACK
2) 1.5 MINUTE SLOT WITH PITCH & FEEDBACK

Hosted By – New York Entrepreneurs, Startup & Business Coalition.
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