Valley Venture Mentors http://www.valleyventurementors.org VVM is the catalyst to restoring the rich entrepreneurial history of the Pioneer Valley Thu, 17 May 2012 16:02:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Seek Your Course Organizing Nationwide Tour! http://www.valleyventurementors.org/2012/05/17/seek-your-course-organizing-nationwide-tour/ http://www.valleyventurementors.org/2012/05/17/seek-your-course-organizing-nationwide-tour/#comments Thu, 17 May 2012 16:02:46 +0000 admin http://www.valleyventurementors.org/?p=895 Seek Your Course, a website dedicated to making life-changing creative experiences more accessible to adults, will be traveling around the country starting it mid June!. The Jumpstart Creativity Tour will take founder Jess Greene 10,000 miles around the country running 50 events featuring art-making and creative writing. Anyone is welcome to attend any event and play with some paint, write some poetry, or doodle. You can support the trip and follow Jess once she leaves via the website.

http://www.jumpstartcreativitytour.com/

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Our next meeting is on Wednesday, June 13 from 5:00 -7:30 PM.

Where:
Bulkley, Richardson and Gelinas, LLP
1500 Main Street, 26th Floor, Springfield, MA 01115
Note: Please take the Tower elevators to the 26th floor
For parking and directions, visit: http://bulkley.com/directions/springfield-office/

Post Event:
After the event everyone is welcome to join us downstairs at Champions for food & drinks

]]> http://www.valleyventurementors.org/2012/05/14/next-meeting-details-to-come/feed/ 0 VVM Startups, Mentors, and Founders Featured in BusinessWest http://www.valleyventurementors.org/2012/05/14/vvm-startups-mentors-and-founders-featured-in-businesswest/ http://www.valleyventurementors.org/2012/05/14/vvm-startups-mentors-and-founders-featured-in-businesswest/#comments Mon, 14 May 2012 17:21:38 +0000 admin http://www.valleyventurementors.org/?p=872 “They’ve helped me make critical decisions and move forward to make this business become a reality. It would have been a lot more difficult and slower without them.” – Marcie Muehlke, founder of Joya Bride, on the importance of the support she has received from VVM. Muehlke was one of several VVM startups, mentors, and founders to be featured in BusinessWest on the impact VVM has had in growing the local entrepreneurial ecosystem.  To read the full article, visit: http://businesswest.com/2012/05/a-priceless-gift

]]> http://www.valleyventurementors.org/2012/05/14/vvm-startups-mentors-and-founders-featured-in-businesswest/feed/ 0 Paul Silva http://www.valleyventurementors.org/2012/05/11/paul-silva-2/ http://www.valleyventurementors.org/2012/05/11/paul-silva-2/#comments Fri, 11 May 2012 19:37:43 +0000 admin http://www.valleyventurementors.org/?p=857 Paul Silva is the associate director of the UMass Amherst Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management, a new center dedicated to helping students create new products, services, and ventures.  He is also CEO of the Valley Venture Mentors (www.valleyventurementors.org), a nonprofit mentoring organization helping seed-stage entrepreneurs build networks of advisors and achieve initial success.  Lastly Paul serves as the manager of the River Valley Investors (www.rivervalleyinvestors.com), an angel investor group in Massachusetts.  In 2000 he co-founded All inPlay, a company creating software that helps the blind socialize with their fully sighted friends and families as equals (www.allinplay.com).  Paul holds a BS in computational physics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst (2000).

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