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Breaking Barriers in Fundraising: Navigating Today’s Fundraising Market for Minority and Immigrant Founders
November 14, 2023 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Generic fundraising advice rarely works if you don’t fit a specific founder profile. That is especially true in today’s market.
Advice like “running a tight process”, “warming up your network”, “creating FOMO”, etc. is basically a catch-22 (Ex: how do you create FOMO when there is zero interest to begin with?). This kind of advice is irrelevant and not helpful to many founders.
Join QEDC and FirstGen for an evening conversation with early stage VCs, who are also first generation, as we discuss what investors need to see to have the conviction to invest and real examples of how founders got an investment from them.
Agenda for the event:
- 6 – 6:40pm: Registration and mingling
- 6:40 – 6:50pm: Welcome & intro to panelists
- 6:50 – 7:30pm: Facilitated conversation
- 7:30 – 7:50pm: Open Q&A
- 7:50 – 8:50: Networking and drinks
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The Queens Economic Development Corporation and Queens Tourism Council will host Queens Taste 2024 at the New York Hall of Science in Flushing Meadows Corona Park on Tuesday, May 21, from 6 pm to 9 pm.
We expect to attract more than 500 attendees with 50 restaurants and beverage purveyors, who will offer samples of their products. Thus, attendees will be able to bounce from table to table, tasting treats from tangy to fiery, crunchy to velvety, and sweet to briny.
Queens Taste is also a celebration of the borough -- and a great way to network. Almost all the anticipated 500 attendees either live in Queens or do business there. Many are executives and captains of industry. The atmosphere is always festive, almost giddy, creating an ideal scene for meeting and greeting.