Entrepreneurial Activism

NextGen Conference was the last event I attended for this week. It took place yesterday all day so it might be a bit early for a summary but I’ll be adding in more content as it comes in during the week.

Full Disclosure: I had the pleasure to help organize, speak, and throw the after-party for the conference so I personally might be a bit biased in how cool it was

The conference was put on by Cory Levy, 18 year old entrepreneur who has already worked for 2, yes 2!, venture capital firms at his age. He literally cold called me a couple months ago asking for advice and help with this conference idea of his and there was no way I could refuse. Here was the premise of the conference:

The inspiration

The Next Generation Conference is primed—uniquely so—to take on the extraordinary challenge of renewing our economy. It’s not recovery that is needed; it’s the revitalization that comes from innovation, creativity, value building, and entrepreneurial spirit invested in all of our work. NextGen has been founded to help you.

About the conference

NextGen is a one-day conference at Stanford University in the heart of Silicon Valley.

NextGen’s mission is to help you succeed, by providing lectures, panels and networking opportunities on areas that are vital in building and maintaining your business.

Some of the topics will include:

• How to pitch (what you need to present in your deck and how to be prepared)
• Importance of asking for help / mentorship
• And plenty more topics!

Overall the conference was a little long but a lot of fun. Here are some videos of the talk, the lineup of speakers, and a couple blog posts about it.

Video’s of Conference

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nextgenconf

Lineup of Speakers

http://www.nextgenconf.com/speakers.php

Blog posts about conference

http://www.corylevy.com/2009/10/05/nextgenconference/

http://www.danielbru.com/2009/10/04/nextgen-conf/