May 9-10, 2005 - Bloomington

Hosted* by

Cong. Mark Kennedy

Cong. Gil Gutknecht

and


Minnesota Cup Banquet
Sheraton Bloomington Hotel

Monday, May 9, 2005, 6:30 pm
$55* on or before May 2, $75 afterwards*
 
Free For MN VC Conference Attendees
Minnesota Cup "Breakthrough Ideas" Website

Keynote Speaker

Minnesota Cup Speaker

Barry Moltz, Author
You Have to be a Little Crazy

  Co-founder, Prairie Angels
Scott Litman, Co-Chairman
BreakThrough Ideas
Minnesota Cup

Plus 3 Entrepreneurs Giving 1- minute elevator pitches

QRG Biosciences (WI) | Neighborhood Network (MN) | Mobiliam (MN)

Seating is Limited. Early Registration is Encouraged.

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Program

5:30 - Cash Bar Reception  6:30 - Registration and Badge Pick-Up. 6:40 - Banquet Buffet. 7:00 - Matt Noah Remarks. 7:05  Scott Litman7:12 Elevator Pitches  7:15  Barry Moltz  8:30 Concluding Remarks.

May 6 is the deadline for entries in to the 2005 Minnesota Cup Contest.  The prize is $25,000 in seed capital (cash) for your breakthrough idea.  We will get an update on the contest and learn more about this first year of the annual Minnesota Cup Contest.
Background on BreakThrough Ideas Press Release on BreakThrough Ideas
StarTribune Article University of Minnesota Ad

Scott Litman, Co-chairman, Breakthrough Ideas is an entrepreneur and visionary leader who has spent 15 years growing fledgling businesses into industry powerhouses.  Most recently, his foresight and leadership helped catapult connect@jwt, the digital solutions business of J. Walter Thompson, to become one of the ten largest providers of integrated marketing communications in the United States. Litman began early, founding Minneapolis-based Imaginet just a year out of college.  Imaginet was one of the first vendors of its kind in the Midwest with an initial focus on Macintosh-based publishing solutions.  At the beginning of 2005, Litman & Mallin left J.Walter Thompson after sucessful completion of their management contracts and formed SDWA Ventures.  Their first venture has been the creation and launch of the widely acclaimed Breakthrough Ideas competition, the search for the next great business idea in Minnesota.

Barry Moltz has been running small businesses with a great deal of success and failure for 15 years. He co-founded Prairie Angels (www.prairieangels.org) which invests in local seed stage companies. Barry also is on the Advisory Board of the Angel Capital Association (www.angelcapitalassociation.org)  which is the national professional alliance of angel groups. His book, “You Need to Be A Little Crazy: The Truth about Starting and Growing Your Business” describes the crazy ups and downs and emotional trials of running a business. It is in its fourth reprint and has been translated into Chinese, Russian, Korean and Thai.  Barry speaks at 100 business events a year through out the country. He has received numerous awards such as Angel of the Year and was inducted into the Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame.  Barry can be contacted at www.barrymoltz.com.

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 * All Registration Payments are Final and Non-refundable.  NetSuds makes every effort to ensure that listed speakers and program will occur as presented.  There are circumstances where speakers may not be able to participate as planned.  In that case, NetSuds will make efforts to replace listed speakers.  Cong. Kennedy and Cong. Gutknecht are co-hosts.  The dictates of their offices may preclude them from speaking at the Conference given the Congressional calendar.