Entrepreneurs Roundtable is a global organization active in USA, Japan and
Turkey (with India coming soon) with the sole aim of helping entrepreneurs become successful.
ER Accelerator, an early-stage investment fund, is now taking applications for its June 2011 New York program!
ER holds free monthly events for investors and entrepreneurs in New York (since January 2007) and free bi-monthly events in Istanbul, Turkey (since August 2010) and Tokyo, Japan (since September 2010).
The mission:
Helping entrepreneurs succeed.
ER strives for this goal through networking and pitching events, introductions, mentoring, training and creating healthy startup ecosystems. An incubator fund in NYC is in the works as of Fall, 2010.
The free events:
At each ER event, there is a prominent VC/Investor as the featured speaker. The distinguished VC/Investor gives feedback and advise to the startups that pitches their companies in a highly-interactive setup.
Format for ER events:
1. Introductory speech from the investor
2. Short introductions from each attendee
3. Q&A with the investor
4. Pitches from startups followed by feedback and recommendations from the investor and the attendees.
ER events are designed to provide maximum take-away for each attendee and are very educational as well as a great opportunity for networking.
Contact:
You can join the ER group at: http://groups.google.com/group/eroundtable
For more information, speaking opportunities and sponsorship, please contact Murat Aktihanoglu at murat at eroundtable dot net.
Organizer:
Murat Aktihanoglu (@muratny) is the organizer of Entrepreneurs Roundtable and a serial technology entrepreneur.
Most recently he founded, obtained funding for and sold Centrl, a location-based social network in New York City.
He is also the co-founder of Turkish Founders Club: http://turkishfoundersclub.com
He is a Venture Partner at 212 Ventures: http://212ventures.com
He is a board member at Turkish American Business Forum: http://forum.org
He is an advisor at StandardStart: http://www.standardstart.com/
He is an advisor at Girls In Tech: http://girlsintechnyc.com
He is an advisor at Turkish Women’s International Network: http://www.turkishwin.com/
He is also the co-author of the book “Building Location-Aware Applications”, published by Manning Publications: http://manning.com/ferraro
Murat holds a Masters degree in Computer Science and a BS in Electrics and Electronics from Bilkent University. He has served as a consultant to many established companies (AT&T, Sony, Logitech, Panasonic) as well as startups (Improv, Sonicbox, Atair, Plaxo, Manyone, Coollris) at the founding level to establish their engineering infrastructures and software development methodologies, and he has managed engineering teams at Silicon Graphics in Mountain View and Sony Corporation in Tokyo, Japan: http://holoscape.com
He is a frequent speaker at technology and entrepreneurship conferences and panels, such as Mobile Marketing Association Forum, Monaco Media Forum, Ultra Light Startups, Siggraph, New York Entrepreneur Week, etc.
© ER Accelerator 2011.