Upstream Events — Week of 12/14
Hey everyone -
Hey everyone -
One last sprint before the holiday slow-down. Hoping everyone will have a real chance to disconnect and rest up.
What You Can’t Miss This Week:
- TONIGHT at 8pm ET: Tech Talk with Spencer Lazar (CEO & Cofounder at Apply) about when it does and doesn’t make sense to raise capital from VCs (RSVP here).
- Tuesday at 12pm ET: “Everything You Need To Know About…” with Mike Dudas (Founder of The Block) about Crypto (RSVP here).
- Tuesday at 8pm ET: Investor Series with Charlie Hanna from Marcy Venture Partners — aka Jay Z’s fund, about moving from the talent/record industry to VC (RSVP here).
- Wednesday at 4pm ET: Expert Series with Jamie Roberts Seltzer, General Partner at LightShed Ventures, about Board Game IP (one of the most underrated and interesting opportunities I’ve learned about this year) (RSVP here).
- Wednesday at 8pm ET: Pitch Night with a startup called Phood that is reimagining how college students order food (RSVP here).
- Friday at 2pm ET: “Swimming Against The Stream: Corporate Innovation” with Orchid Bertelsen — Head of Digital Innovation at Nestle (RSVP here).
- Friday at 3pm ET: We wrap up the week with our 42nd Upstream Social with guest speaker Nick Vega — Tech Reporter from the NY Post (RSVP here).
And these are just the events in the main Earlybirds community…
Opportunity to Give Back: If you have been a long-time Upstream user, you’ve probably met our friend Shimmy Mehta, founder of Angelwish and one of our earliest adopters.
- For the holidays we are partnering with Angelwish to grant holiday wishes to children living with chronic illnesses through Angelwish.org/upstream.
- In less than 2 minutes, you can find a child in a city that you care about and grant their wish.
- The gift you make possible is given to the child’s parents to give to their child. We hope you’ll join us and help brighten the holiday of children in need.
Opportunity to Connect with the Upstream Community: Our friends and Upstream superfans Nikki Bogopolskaya and Danielle Mantich have organized an Upstream Book Club.
- We invite you to join this monthly book club that will host fiction & non-fiction authors and special guests as speakers. Let us know if you want to nominate a book/author!
THIS WEEK’S EVENTS ROUND-UP
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MONDAY the 14th
TUESDAY the 15th
- Influencer Marketing Meetup #3 — Keith Bielory: Talent Agent to top influencers at 10am ET
- “Everything You Need To Know About…Crypto” with Mike Dudas — Founder of The Block at 12pm ET
- BD / Partnerships Social #16 with Alex Guttler (Platform Partnerships at Stripe) at 6pm ET
- Elevate: The Power of Flow with CraftJack co-founder, Noah Mishkin, and Reimaginez, Founder, CEO and Executive Coach, Therese Gedda at 7pm ET
- Investor Series #16 with Charlie Hanna — Investor at Marcy Venture Partners at 8pm ET
WEDNESDAY the 16th
- Product + Engineering Holiday Mixer at 12pm ET
- Board game IP with Jamie Roberts Seltzer — General Partner at LightShed Ventures at 4pm ET
- Consumer Investor / Founder Meetup with Sumeet Shah at Arclight at 5pm ET
- Social Impact Community Holiday Mixer #2 at 6pm ET
- Boston VC Holiday Gathering at 6pm ET
- Pre-Seed Investors Gathering #3 at 6pm ET
- Sports Business Event #12 with Marc Kohn (Chief Content Officer at Overtime) at 7pm ET
- Pitch Night #3 with Phood at 8pm ET
- Rising Professionals Presents Christen O’Brien, CMO at NFX at 10pm ET
THURSDAY the 17th
- Startup Lean Coffee Mixer at 9am ET
- Serial Marketers SpeedUp #12 Holiday Mirth Spectacular at 12pm ET Healthcare Community Social with Lynne Rowland — SVP Marketing and Communications at CAQH at 6pm ET
- Techstars Alumni Mixer #1 at 6pm ET
- Exponential: Education at Play with Brad Schenker (former U.S. partnerships at LEGO Education and littleBits) at 6pm ET
- PR Pros Networking XI — with guest speaker Brian Wallace (Founder at NowSourcing) at 6:30pm ET
- LA Tech Holiday Mixer at 8pm ET
FRIDAY the 18th
- Swimming Against The Stream: Corporate Innovation with Orchid Bertelsen — Head of Digital Innovation at Nestle at 2pm ET
- Upstream Social XXXXII with Nick Vega — Tech Reporter at The New York Post at 3pm ET
THIS WEEK’S OFFICE HOURS
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MONDAY the 14th
Yaakov Zar — Founder at Lev at 8am ET
Scott Markovits — Startup builder at 9am ET
Paul Hurwitz — B2B Health Tech Product Leader at 11am ET
Kurt Benson — CEO/Founder at Tidal League at 12pm ET
Alex Taub — Co-founder at Upstream at 1pm ET
Zach Levin — Founder at Law by Levin at 1pm ET
Kazi Islam — Product at Upstream at 2pm ET
Evelina Lavrova — CMO at Waves World at 2pm ET
Geri Kirilova — Partner at Laconia at 3:30pm ET
Jonathan Fishman — Founder at Bizydev at 5pm ET
Chaim Haas — Head of Innovation Communication at Bloomberg at 5:30pm ET
TUESDAY the 15th
Dom Tancredi — CEO at Dom & Tom at 11am ET
David Berkowitz — Founder at Serial Marketers at 12pm ET
Paul Strachman — Partner at Red Sea Ventures at 12:30pm ET
Neal Conlon — Entrepreneur Coach at 1pm ET
Bryan Sterba — Counsel at Lowenstein Sandler LLP at 1pm ET
Ryan Babenzien — Founder/CEO at Greats at 1pm ET
Cat Hernandez — Partner at The Venture Collective at 1pm ET
Nicole Friedman — Investor at Blue Collective at 3pm ET
Sarah Wood — Head of Growth & Community at Upstream at 3pm ET
Dave Weinberg — Partnership practice lead at Recruited at 4pm ET
Leo Morejon — Show Host at ProveItMatters.com at 5pm ET
Ilya Tabakh — EIR at Black & Veatch at 6pm ET
Adam Feldman — Product Manager at Instagram at 7pm ET
Anna Phillips — Head of BD at Goldman Sachs at 7:25pm ET
WEDNESDAY the 16th
Jon Lehr — General Partner at Work-Bench at 10am ET
Kine Paulsen — Partner at kinfizz at 12pm ET
Greg Baroth — Social/Digital Consultant at 12pm ET
Steve Gowa — Sales Enablement at Forcemultiply at 12pm ET
Captain Planet — CEO/Founder at Tap, Founder at Makespace at 12pm ET
Jordan Fox — President & Founder at MMP Digital Corp at 1pm ET
Mike Gelb — Founder at The Consumer VC at 2pm ET
Leigh Bonner — Head of Talent at FirstMark Capital at 2pm ET
Eric Broad — CEO at Bowery Legal at 3pm ET
Mat Kaliski — Principal at Acronym Venture Capital at 3pm ET
Kate Kelly — CEO/Cofounder at Chelsea Capital at 3pm ET
Shira Goldetsky — CEO at Sapient Search at 3:30pm ET
Daniel First — Strategy Consulting / Machine Learning at 4pm ET
Henry Chi — Investor at Capital Innovators at 8pm ET
Josh Hone — COO at Column at 11:30pm ET
THURSDAY the 17th
Jory Schwach — Founder at Andium at 8am ET
Ariel Sterman — Senior Associate at Bessemer Venture Partners at 8am ET
Bryan Sterba — Counsel at Lowenstein Sandler LLP at 11am ET
Kerry Flynn — Reporter at CNN at 12pm ET
David Berkowitz — Founder at Serial Marketers at 12:30pm ET
Nikki Bogopolskaya — Brand Partnerships at TikTok at 1pm ET
Geoff Scott — CEO/CTO Coach at 1pm ET
Matt Jessen-Howard — Partner at Noveus Capital at 2pm ET
Trace Cohen — Managing Director at NYVP at 2pm ET
Andrew McCarley — Senior Consultant at Peabody Aerospace at 3pm ET
Lily Sassoon — Partner at Green Meadow Ventures at 3:30pm ET
Eric Broad — CEO at Bowery Legal at 4pm ET
Jacob Bassiri — CEO/Founder at Tree of Wally at 5pm ET
Nick Jaber — Head of Growth at NeoEYED at 6:40pm ET
FRIDAY the 18th
Jocelyn Lee — Executive Director, HearstLab at Hearst at 10:30am ET
Lio Slama — Co-founder/CEO at askneo.io at 11am ET
Hanan Eldahry — CEO at myHotHoods at 11am ET
Dave Weinberg — Partnerships lead at Recruited at 11am ET
Jake Wayne — Investor at Torch Capital at 11am ET
Sarah Wood — Head of Growth & Community at Upstream at 11:30am ET
Steve Gowa — Sales Enablement at Forcemultiply at 12pm ET
Kurt Benson — CEO/Founder at Tidal League at 12pm ET
Neal Conlon — Entrepreneurship Coach at 12pm ET
Therese Gedda — Founder/CEO at Reimaginez at 12pm ET
Paul Sethi — Managing Partner at 2048 Ventures at 1pm ET
Alex Taub — Co-founder at Upstream at 1pm ET
Erik Ford — CEO at Renn Global at 1:30pm ET
Priyanka Somrah — VC Analyst at Work-Bench at 3pm ET
Michael Galluppo — Founder at OLY.AI at 4:30pm ET
Jason Yau — President at Canvaspeople at 6pm ET
SATURDAY & SUNDAY — 12/19 + 12/20
Carey Ransom — President at Operate at 12pm ET (12/19)
Ali Jamal — Founding Partner at First Check Ventures at 5pm ET (12/19)
Charles Hudson — Managing Partner at Precursor Ventures at 6pm ET (12/19)
Ali Jamal — Founding Partner at First Check Ventures at 6pm ET (12/20)
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If you have any friends you think might like the events above, share the link with them so they can RSVP and join!
Can’t wait to see you at one!
Alex
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Alex Taub
Co-founder and CEO
