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VentureLab Speaker Series
The VentureLab Incubator supports the development of new entrepreneurs and the growth of promising early-stage ventures. With the 2020 VentureLab program operating remotely, we are opening up our weekly speaker sessions to those outside of the incubator program. Please join us via YouTube to hear from our speakers throughout the 9-week series.
Speaker Series Schedules
| Date | Topic | Speakers | Link to Join | Recording Link |
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| Tues June 9 | Effectuation Part II: Art of the Ask | Professor Saras Sarasvathy and Doug Lebda (EMBA '14), founder and CEO of LendingTree | https://darden-virginia.zoom.us/j/95128198990 | http://www.kaltura.com/tiny/yunnq |
| Wed June 17 | VC101: from Pitching to the Term Sheet | Jeff Bocan, Partner at Okapi Venture Capital | https://youtu.be/D0D4rSNB3dU | http://www.kaltura.com/tiny/nlmxd |
| Wed June 24 | Startup Toolkit for Iterating on the MVP |
Professor Raul Chao |
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| Wed July 1 | Velocity of a Startup |
Professor Damon Devito |
https://youtu.be/CQkxmebHtKY | |
| Wed July 8 | Leveraging Uncertainty: Lead Like an Entrepreneur |
Professor Saras Sarasvathy |
https://youtu.be/Z7mzaTfKzH4 | |
| Wed July 15 | The Defensible and Differentiated Idea |
Faraj Aalaei, Founding Partner at Candou Ventures |
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| Wed July 22 | Startup Realities of Project Management |
Professor Yael Grushka-Cockayne |
https://youtu.be/hnrl7vetfuU | |
| Wed July 29 | Pitching to the Stakeholders |
Professor June West |
https://youtu.be/yOMR9oaTE0E | |
| Wed August 5 |
Founders Panel |
TBD | https://youtu.be/4YJuv0916Jc |
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