Upstream Events: Ann Miura-Ko from Floodgate, Zach Sims from Codecademy, Avery Hartmans from…
Hey all -
Welcome to the 14th month of 2020…
Last week the Upstream Book Club led by Nikki Bogopolskaya and Danielle Mantich kicked off with a fantastic first meeting. This month we’re reading No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram by Bloomberg’s Sarah Frier who will be making a special guest appearance on Wednesday, February 24th at 6pm ET (time may change). Join us!
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Win of the Week: Have you gotten hired, fundraising, a life-changing intro, or made a new modern friend? Share your Upstream win with Alex/Sarah to get featured! We’ll pick one a week to spotlight.
This week we are celebrating Mike Gelb and how he has built a thriving community with 6 months of dedicated effort and a clear vision.. We were deeply touched by Mike’s story of growing his community from 2 to 470 members, fueling the flywheel for his tremendous podcast, The Consumer VC. Join him for his event with Betsy Fore, Co-CEO Tiny Organics this Thursday at 4pm ET.
New Feature Alert: Viewer-Only Mode
While we believe the 1x1 video breakouts are part of the Upstream secret sauce, we recognize they aren’t for everyone, all the time. When you don’t feel comfortable or able to do the video breakouts, you can attend the event in Viewer-Only mode.
No one knows you opted to view the event only. You can choose to stay in the audio lobby or leave the event. This is the first of many accessibility features on our product roadmap to ensure that our platform is inclusive to all who want to use it.
THIS WEEK’S EVENTS ROUND-UP
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You’ll see the event line-up below is a bit easier to read — h/t Bridget Martinez for the formatting suggestion!
MONDAY the 1st
Evening: 5pm — 8pm EST
- Upstream Admins Only Event #4 (for community Admins only)
TUESDAY the 2nd
Evening: 5pm — 8pm EST
- Investor Series #23 with Ann Miura-Ko — Co-founding Partner at Floodgate at 6pm ET
- Pitch Night #8 with Fishwife at 7pm ET
WEDNESDAY the 3rd
Afternoon: 12pm — 5pm EST
Evening: 5pm — 8pm EST
- Sports Business Event #15 with Brendan Kaminsky (former Social @ ESPN) at 6pm ET
- Jews In Tech Connect #14 at 7pm ET
THURSDAY the 4th
Morning: 8am — 12pm EST
- How to find a cofounder with Alex Taub — Cofounder of Upstream at 12pm ET
- MIA Israeli Tech February Mixer at 12pm ET
- Serial Marketers SpeedUp #15 at 12pm ET
Afternoon: 12pm — 5pm EST
Evening: 5pm — 8pm EST
- Origins: Codecademy with co-founder and CEO Zach Sims at 5pm ET
- Cultural & Sustainable Travel Post COVID, Jessica Hall Upchurch from Virtuoso Travel at 5pm ET
- Joy Soldier Meet-Up #4 at 8pm ET
Friday the 5th
Morning: 8am — 12pm EST
Afternoon: 12pm — 5pm EST
Notable Upcoming
- Real Estate Matching on 2/9 at 12pm ET
- AMA with Frank Rotman, Co-Founder of QED Investors on 2/9 at 6pm ET
- Active Investor #21: Mac Conwell Managing Director RareBreed Ventures on 2/9 at 6pm ET
- Investor Series #24 with Heather Hartnett — CEO and General Partner at Human Ventures on 2/9 at 7pm ET
- Pitch Night #9 with DRK Beauty on 2/9 at 8pm ET
- Digital Health #1 — Meet and Greet on 2/10 at 12:30pm ET
- February Founders Helping Founders — featuring TBD on 2/10 at 2pm ET
- Miami Tech Social #7 with Auston Bunsen at Quiknode on 2/10 at 5pm ET
- The Future of Health & Wellness with Elise King, Human Ventures on 2/10 at 6pm ET
- BD / Partnerships Social #20 with Chris Fralic — Board Partner at First Round Capital (and former VP of BD at del.icio.us and half.com/eBay) on 2/10 at 7pm ET
- Community Community Lunch #2 with Ben Lang from Notion on 2/11 at 12pm ET
- Founder / Investor Meetup w/ Kiva Dickinson — MP of Selva Ventures on 2/11 at 4pm ET
- LA Female Founder Series #2: Amira Polack, CEO of Struct Club on 2/11 at 8pm ET
- Pitch Night #10 with Impulse on 2/16 at 6pm ET
- Sports Business Event #16 with Deepen Parikh — Partner at Courtside Ventures on 2/17 at 6pm ET
- Executive Spotlight III — Salim Holder, CEO & Co-Founder, 4th Ave Market on 2/18 at 1pm ET
- Comms for startups vs venture vs establish company with Ashley Mayer — Senior Director, Communications at Glossier on 2/18 at 6pm ET
- LA Female Founder Series #3: Christine Outram, CEO of Everydae on 2/18 at 8pm ET
- Upstream Social #51 with Natasha Mascarenhas — Reporter at TechCrunch on 2/19 at 3pm ET
THIS WEEK’S OFFICE HOURS
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MONDAY the 1st
Morning: 8am — 12pm EST
- Chris Moreno — VP, National Partnerships at Luxer One at 8:30am ET
- Eli Heuman — Regional Manager at Maof at 9am ET
- Scott Markovits — Startup builder at 9am ET
- Lior Romanowsky — CEO at Jenna AI at 10am ET
- Kyle Rezac-Dennis — Founder at White Elephant at 10am ET
- Rohan Arora — Investment Professional at Novalpina at 10am ET
Afternoon: 12pm — 5pm EST
- 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
- River Tamoor Baig — CEO at SyncUp at 1pm ET
- Kazi Islam — Product at Upstream at 2pm ET
- Evelina Lavrova — CMO at Waves World at 2pm ET
- Danny Levy — Founder at Ting.io at 4pm ET
Evening: 5pm — 8pm EST
- Calvin Arterberry — Lead UX Designer at Travelers at 5:30pm ET
- Sean Callanan — CEO at Sports Geek at 5:30pm ET
- Emeka C Anen — Managing Partner at Just A Small Project at 6pm ET
TUESDAY the 2nd
Morning: 8am — 12pm EST
- Kyle Rezac-Dennis — Founder at White Elephant at 10am ET
- Uri Yudewitz — Founder at Addvisory.co at 10am ET
- Dom Tancredi — CEO at Dom & Tom at 11am ET
- Sarah Wood — Head of Growth & Community at Upstream at 11am ET
Afternoon: 12pm — 5pm EST
- Ryan Babenzien — Founder at Greats at 1pm ET
- Neal Conlon — Entrepreneur Coach at 1pm ET
- Ja’dan Johnson — Entrepreneur at 1:35pm ET
- Paul Sethi — Managing Partner at 2048 Ventures at 2pm ET
- Eric Broad — CEO at Bowery Legal at 2pm ET
- Jamie Hourahan — CRO at Kwali at 2pm ET
- David Logan — Managing Director at Umergence at 3pm ET
- Dave Weinberg — Partnership Recruiting at Gently Ventures at 4pm ET
- Therese Gedda — Founder/CEO at Reimaginez at 4:30pm ET
Evening: 5pm — 8pm EST
WEDNESDAY the 3rd
Morning: 8am — 12pm EST
- Armand Khatri — Partnerships at Pinterest at 8:50am ET
- Eric Friedman — Fractional COO at BuildingTheMachine.com at 9am ET
- Shanna McEachern — Director of Operations at Alpaca Technology at 9am ET
- Scott Rosenbluth — CEO at Craze Management at 10am ET
- David Cutler — Founder at David Cutler Network at 10am ET
- Jennifer Dagi — Relationship Blogger / Coach at 10am ET
- Kyle Rezac-Dennis — Founder at White Elephant at 10am ET
- Ari Greenberg — Strategic Partnerships Leader at 11am ET
- Hanan Eldahry — CEO at HotHoods at 11am ET
- Alexandria Pugia — Software Developer at Upstream at 11am ET
- Dhanush Ram — Associate at Speciale Invest at 11:30am ET
Afternoon: 12pm — 5pm EST
- 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
- Leo Morejon — Marketing at Applegate at 1pm ET
- Chris Johnston — Product Designer at The SilverLogic at 1:30pm ET
- Max Zamkow — Partner at Third Act Ventures at 2pm ET
- Ryan De Souza — Investor at Scrum Ventures at 2pm ET
- Mike Gelb — Founder at The Consumer VC at 2:30pm ET
- Oren Kozlowski — VC Principal at Founders Factory NY at 2:30pm ET
- Mat Kaliski — Principal at Acronym Venture Capital at 3pm ET
- Mark Wang — Patent Attorney at 3pm ET
- Teddy Seem — Partner at Outsiders Fund at 3pm ET
- Shira Goldetsky — CEO at Sapient Search at 3:30pm ET
Evening: 5pm — 11:30pm EST
- Douglas Govindavajhala — Senior Software Engineer at 6pm ET
- Henry Chi — Investor at Capital Innovators at 8pm ET
- Ron Schwartz — CEO at TechHub Limited at 9pm ET
- Chris Moreno — VP, National Partnerships at Luxer One at 9:30pm ET
- Josh Hone — COO at Column at 11:30pm ET
THURSDAY the 4th
Morning: 8am — 12pm EST
- Jason Kramer — Founder at Cultivize at 10am ET
- Paris Morris — Customer Advocacy Marketing at Salesforce at 11am ET
Afternoon: 12pm — 5pm EST
- Kerry Flynn — Reporter at CNN at 12pm ET
- David Berkowitz — Founder at Serial Marketers at 12:30pm ET
- Geoff Scott — CEO/CTO Coach at 1pm ET
- Matt Jessen-Howard — Partner at Noveus Capital at 2pm ET
- Ben Pulver — Head of BizOps at Banyan at 2pm ET
- Andrew McCarley — Senior Consultant at Peabody Aerospace at 3pm ET
- Jonathan Bennun — Product Growth at 3pm ET
Evening: 5pm — 8pm EST
FRIDAY the 5th
Morning: 8am — 12pm EST
- Jaimin Desai — Founder at Reconcile at 11am ET
- Dave Weinberg — Partnership Recruiting at Gently Ventures at 11am ET
- Scott Rosenbluth — CEO at Craze Management at 11am ET
- Mark Kahn — Senior Attorney at PAG at 11am ET
Afternoon: 12pm — 5pm EST
- 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
- Alex Taub — Co-founder at Upstream at 1pm ET
- Geoff Cook — Co-founder/CEO at The Meet Group at 1pm ET
- Kine Paulsen — Partner at kinfizz at 2pm ET
- Sarah Alister — Computer Science Student at 3pm ET
- Michael Galluppo — Founder at OLY.AI at 4:30pm ET
Evening: 5pm — 8pm EST
- Catalina Kaiyoorawongs — CEO at LoanSense at 5:15pm ET
- Jason Yau — President at Canvaspeople at 6pm ET
SATURDAY the 6th
Morning: 8am — 12pm EST
Afternoon: 12pm — 5pm EST
- Carey Ransom — President at Operate at 12pm ET
- Abhishek Sharma — Technical Program Manager at Pure Storage at 3pm ET
- Ali Jamal — Founding Partner at First Check Ventures at 5pm ET
Evening: 5pm — 8pm EST
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 an event!
Alex