InSITE Connect

Tuesday, December 10, 2013 | 6:00 – 8:00 PM

Calling all of Boston’s venture capitalists, incubators, and entrepreneurs: come to InSITE‘s semi-annual event to see live pitches and presentations from local Boston startups including Jaze, Techlok, Educanon, Tressd, and Hourly Nerd. If you’re interested in joining us for this exciting event, register here.

New Business from New Science

Wednesday, December 11, 2013 | 3:30 – 5:00 PM

Crossing business, science, medicine, and law, come see what plans the multi-disciplinary teams in Professor Vicki Sato’s Commercializing Science class have created for commercializing research from university and private sector labs and moving research from the lab to the market place.

ES21 Public Idea Showcase

Thursday, December 12, 2013 | 7:00 – 9:00 PM

Office furniture that helps distracted workers focus… Tech-enabled life planning… Game that breaks phone addiction… Platform to simplify freelance work … High-design clock that tells time in terms of productivity… These are just some of the ideas invented in 2013 by Harvard students in Engineering Sciences 21: The Innovators’ Practice, a multi-disciplinary course dubbed Harvard’s ‘real world obstacle course to practicing innovation’. Dr. Altringer and ES21 invite you to join our public presentations. Come celebrate student idea development, meet others, scout talent, and get inspired! Register here.

Impact Interview is an elite interview preparation firm. We’ve partnered with Impact Interview to offer FREE seats to their well regarded class, How to Get a Product Manager Job to our club members on January 21, 2014. The course will cover:

• Day-in-the-life of a product manager (PM)
• Explain key product manager (PM) responsibilities
• What skills and experiences hiring managers are looking for in top MBA candidates
• PM hiring process including resume and cover letters
• Review common PM interview questions, including the CIRCLES Method™ and DIGS Method™ featured in the presenter’s new book: Decode and Conquer: Answers to Product Management Interviews

The presenter is Lewis Lin. Here’s what PM candidates say about Lewis:

• “Just wanted to let you know that I got the Product Manager job at Google! Thank you to you and your team for the great prep courses, they really helped.” – E.R.
• “I was offered and accepted the Product Manager position with Google. I started a few weeks ago and I am working out of Mountain View. Thanks again for your coaching and assistance!” – R.O.
• “I just wanted to let you know that I received an offer from Google today! Thank you soooo much for your help!” – F.B.

Class attendance is limited to 200 people. The first five people per school get in for FREE.

To register, do two things:

1. Like the Decode and Conquer Facebook page: http://bit.ly/DecConFBPage
2. Sign up for the class: http://bit.ly/PMClassSignup

Building a Successful SaaS Business / VentureFizz Holiday Gathering

Join us on December 10th at 6pm for our next event!

We are going to take a deep dive into what it takes to build a successful SaaS based business.  We’ll learn from three founders / CEOs who have raised venture capital funding and are in the midst of building companies that are scaling.

No doubt, this will be a lively discussion!!!

There will also be plenty of time to network and have some drinks (great mix of craft beers & wine), so we can celebrate the holiday season.  You deserve it – you’ve worked hard this year!

So, anyone who is involved in the software industry… founder, investor, product manager, marketer, software engineer, sales, client services, operations… this event is for you.

Special “thank you” to Communispace, who is sponsoring and hosting us for this event at their cool space in the Innovation District / Fort Point Channel area.

http://venturefizz.com/events/venturefizz-building-successful-saas-business-holiday-gathering

http://venturefizz.com/blog/go-broke-and-ignore-customer-feedback-–-succeeding-startup-world

Job Opportunities at OneVision:

OneVision provides over 20 years of new generation software solutions for the printing, publishing, and media industry worldwide. Headquartered in Germany with offices in the United States, France,

United Kingdom, Brazil, Singapore, and India, OneVision epitomizes innovation in work flow and cross media modular technology.

Our software is like our team: dynamic, intelligent, and flexible. OneVision is pleased to offer an exciting opportunity to lead our sales force and service operations located just outside of Boston in Andover, Massachusetts. As a member of our multinational management team, your role will be fast paced and you will need to apply your 3-5 years of experience within the IT industry to demonstrate impressive sales achievement. Accordingly, you should exercise a hands-on approach and be comfortable with juggling multiple complex projects among internal and external customers.

Your Responsibilities:

• Leadership

• Sales

• Managing our subsidiary

• Execute core finance activities including financial reporting and business forecasting

• Negotiate and manage contracts in collaboration with our management and legal teams

• Exercise strong qualitative and quantitative analytical skills for strategic opportunities and tradeoff decisions between scope (value in expected ROI) and timing (i.e. longer release cycles

equates to higher operating expense)

• Facilitate U.S. recruitment initiatives

Your Qualifications:

• MS or MBA from a top-tier school

• German language skills and intercultural competency

• Demonstrated leadership in commercial operations, business development and consulting

• Comprehensive understanding of territory management (planning, prospecting, and budgeting)

• Excellent communication skills and ability to embrace change in business relationships

Contact Information:

Reference ID: [email protected]

Website: www.OneVision.com

Mr. Hussein Khalil (Exec Ed alum) and his colleague Ms. Ashley Quigless, are in Boston this week and have had time open up in their schedule which they would like to fill by interviewing a few HBS students.  Interested ECs may contact Ms. Quigless directly:

[email protected]

US mobile number: (323) 370 9711

Post-MBA Associate role for ECs

5AM Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on building next-generation life science companies. Founded in 2002, 5AM Ventures has over $675 million under management. The firm has offices in Menlo Park, CA and Waltham, MA.

We are seeking an Associate in our Menlo Park, California office. The Associate will participate in all aspects of investment activity including the analysis and due diligence of new investment opportunities as well as management of existing investments. The firm is looking for an individual with strong scientific or medical background (MD and/or Ph.D required).

Full description: http://goo.gl/MWByly