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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
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

https://youtu.be/8UCARiGkHfo

http://www.kaltura.com/tiny/xrpdk

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

https://youtu.be/RteTGO1iffw

 
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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