MIT Enterprise Forum NHHTC October 7, 2008

NH MIT Enterprise Forum of NH Format Enhances Networking and Learning Opportunities
The Business Place to Be! The MIT Enterprise Forum offers a unique opportunity to tap the experience and advice of proven experts on a forum panel. Business issues discussed typically include, planning, organization, marketing, product development and financing. Your participation is welcomed and encouraged by asking questions and sharing your experience. You'll be sure to walk away with new ideas and strategies on how to grow your business.

Our NH chapter has been presenting a series of programs annually for more than 15 years using a traditional business case format.

There will be a networking / cocktail hour where you can meet other entrepreneurial business leaders, owners, venture capitalists and executives of high tech companies in NH.

The Interview: From attic to $ 1.4 billion-Paula Long & the ride of a lifetime!

Interviewed by Matt Pierson, Chairman of the New Hampshire High Technology Council, active angel investor, and former CEO of DTC Communications.

Who is Paula Long? High Tech Women to watch honoree, winner of the New Hampshire High Technology Council 2008 Entrepreneur of the Year, and co-founder of Equallogic, now Dell/EqualLogic storage software and equipment maker.

Last year, Long and cofounders Peter Hayden and Paul Koning sold their six year-old company storage technology company to Dell Inc. for $1.4 billion. Based in Nashua, N.H., EqualLogic raised $52 million in equity capital since it was founded in 2001.

Paula Long is a seasoned executive with more than 20 years of experience in delivering innovative technology solutions. She has extensive experience in managing strategic product development in the areas of operating system design, real-time systems, and enterprise software.

As director of enterprise products at Allaire Corporation, she was responsible for application load balancing and high availability products shipping with ColdFusion and JRun. Long also served as director of engineering for Bright Tiger Technologies, overseeing all aspects of the award-winning ClusterCATS product line. Earlier in her career, Long held senior engineering positions at Digital Equipment Corporation. It was there that she met two other DEC employees that would ultimately reunite as EqualLogic's founders. Now a division of Dell, EqualLogic employs more than 400 people in New Hampshire.

Come hear Paula's unforgettable story!

Skydive Pitch is Back!

Grab your parachute - SKYDIVE Pitch will be back again starting this fall. Are you raising capital? Building your board? Developing a business plan or the next WOW! Technology? Launching a new product?

Now in its third year, the SkyDive Pitch is an innovative part of NHHTC's MIT Enterprise Forum of New Hampshire designed to introduce early stage companies to the Tech Community's movers and shakers. The SkyDive opportunity provides early stage companies with a stage to briefly present their business challenge directly to angel investors, venture capital firms, service providers and potential partners in attendance at our regular Forum. SkyDives are also included in these e-mail blasts, providing additional publicity to over 1700 members of our database. Wanna Skydive?

Contact Peter Nieves at 603-668-0300.

Upcoming forums: February 17 and April 7, 2009

Time:
5:20 pm: Networking, Hearty Hors d'oeuvres, & Cash Bar
6:00 - 8:30 pm: Program

Location: FIRST Place, 200 Bedford Street, Manchester

Calling for Presenters, Panelists, Skydivers.
Contact the Committee Members

http://nhhtc.org/mit/index.cfm

Thank you to our sponsors

Hayes Soloway, Bernstein Shur, Tatum LLC, USI and Ocean Bank

Co-Hosts: MIT Club of NH, In kind Sponsor: Mass High Tech

Host: FIRST Place

Official Website: http://www.nhhtc.org/news_event_detail.cfm?id=330