Rev Members Exclusive: Office Hours with Ryoko Nozawa from Cayuga Ventures
2018-12-05 09:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Rev: Ithaca Startup Works, 314 E State St, Ithaca
Rev members are invited to stop by and meet with Ryoko Nozawa, a Principal Investor from Cayuga Ventures. Office Hours with Ryoko will be held from 9:00am-12:00pm & pre-registration is required for a 30-minute session. Registration for this event will close the day before the event, on December 4th at 9:00am. If you are interested in attending these Office Hours & miss the registration sign-up, please contact Cara Harbinger at cmh379@cornell.edu.

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About Ryoko Nozawa:
Ryoko is principal at Cayuga Venture Fund. She focuses on exploring investment opportunities, supporting portfolio companies, and assisting fund administration. She evaluates startups on their business models, financials and cost structures, operations, technologies, and markets. She is typically the first person to conduct due diligence on the investment opportunities.
Ryoko joined Cayuga Venture Fund in 2016. She is a graduate of Cornell MBA & Keio University in Japan. She has been a judge for 76West (energy), GENIUS NY (unmanned aerial systems & IoT), and various startup competitions at Cornell and other programs in the region.

Rev Members Exclusive: EIR Office Hours with Brad Treat
2018-12-07 09:00 - 12:00 | Rev: Ithaca Startup Works, 314 E State St, Ithaca
Rev: Ithaca Startup Work’s Office Hours give members the opportunity to reserve an appointment with a Rev Entrepreneur-In-Residence (EIR) or a guest expert to discuss strategy, seek assistance with business connections, and receive valuable feedback. Office Hours are hosted by our EIRs or selected guests on a rotating basis and are typically offered each week.

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EIR Office Hours with Brad Treat will be held 9:00am-12:00pm & registration is required for a 30-minute session. Registration for this event will close on Thursday, December 6th at 9:00am. If you are interested in attending these Office Hours & miss the registration sign-up, please contact Cara Harbinger at cmh379@cornell.edu.

About Brad Treat:
Brad is a career entrepreneur with an emphasis on technology-driven companies. Brad was most recently the Founding CEO of Mezmeriz, a high-tech company making interactive projectors and reality capture cameras to embed into mobile phones. Mezmeriz is based on patented MEMS technology developed by company co-founder Shahyaan Desai at Cornell. Previously, he was the Entrepreneur-In-Residence at Cornell University.
Brad was also the co-founder and CEO of SightSpeed, an innovative video and voice communications company. Together with co-founders Aron Rosenberg and Cornell Professor Toby Berger, Brad grew SightSpeed from a university research project into the world’s premier video calling software. SightSpeed was profitably acquired by Logitech for $30M.
Earlier in his career, Brad worked for eight years in the automotive industry in both the US and Spain at Bowles Fluidics and GKN Automotive. He holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from North Carolina State, and an MBA from the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell.
Brad lives in Ithaca, New York. He is faculty at Johnson at Cornell, Cornell Engineering, and Ithaca College teaching practical entrepreneurship, empathetic leadership, and project management. With the loving support of his wife Kristin and sideways looks from his children, he competes in long-distance triathlons in the “Clydesdale” division, has done a few Ironman triathlons, and has finished a handful of marathons without walking.

Rev Members Exclusive: Lunch 'n' Learn: Accessing the Wisdom of the Team with Brad Treat & Erica Marx
2018-12-07 12:00 - 13:00 | Ithaca Startup Works, 314 E State St, Ithaca
Bring your lunch (or order in) and gather for a short presentation on a timely topic – topic to be announced soon! This event is for Rev Member Companies and employees only.
Accessing the Wisdom of the Team

Come on December 7th at Noon to Rev to hear from Erica Marx and Brad Treat on how to run a strategy offsite. Participants will try out a simple, goal-oriented interactive coaching exercise that reveals patterns and generates insights about where your company would benefit the most by investing time working ‘on’ the business instead of ‘in’ the business. This is a micro-version of what you may do with your team at an offsite retreat. We will also discuss best practices for running offsite programs and topics most strategically suited for an offsite retreat.

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Rev Member Holiday Party!
2018-12-10 16:00 - 18:00
Everyone looks forward to the office Holiday party, but Rev Members know that our incubator Holiday Party is Ithaca’s best startup bash. We’ll have music, refreshments, and of course… the always entertaining Gingerbread Rapid Prototyping Contest! Kids and families are welcome. So put on your best ugly holiday sweater, or your festive finest, and join us! Please RSVP for this event so we can anticipate that you will be joining us for a fun filled evening.

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This event is for Rev Member Companies, stakeholders, and partners.

Rev Members & Sponsors Exclusive: Free Pass Day
2018-12-11 09:00 - 17:00, 2019-01-08 09:00 - 17:00, 2019-02-05 09:00 - 17:00 | Rev: Ithaca Startup Works, 314 E State St, Ithaca
All employees of Rev Member companies are welcome to come work without using a Day Pass. This is a great chance to catch up with mentors and other Members, meet new people, and connect with special guests and Rev Sponsors! Bagels provided – yum!

Rev Members Exclusive: Office Hours with Nate Cook, Esq. of Miller Mayer
2018-12-12 09:00 - 12:00 | Rev: Ithaca Startup Works, 314 E State St, Ithaca
Rev: Ithaca Startup Work’s Office Hours give members the opportunity to reserve an appointment with a Rev Entrepreneur-In-Residence (EIR) or a guest expert to discuss strategy, seek assistance with business connections, and receive valuable feedback. Office Hours are hosted by our EIRs or selected guests on a rotating basis and are typically offered each week.

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Office Hours will be held 9:00am-12:00pm & registration is required for a 30-minute session. Registration for this event will close on Tuesday, December 11th at 9:00am. If you are interested in attending these Office Hours & miss the registration sign-up, please contact Christy Johnson at csj46@cornell.edu.
About Nate Cook:
Nate Cook is an attorney of counsel in Miller Mayer’s practice group, and focuses on business, finance, real estate, and intellectual property law. Mr. Cook advises entrepreneurs and established businesses in organization, mergers and acquisitions, formation, licensing, succession planning, and financing. Mr. Cook also focuses on real estate, where he represents buyers and sellers of residences and commercial real estate throughout Central NY and the Southern Tier. Mr. Cook also advises clients in intellectual property protection, trademark and copyright registration, licensing, franchising, negotiation and preparation of software development and service agreements, as well as trade secret protection. Nate Cook received his J.D. from Rutgers Law School and Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from the University of North Texas.

Rev Member Exclusive: EIR Office Hours with Greg Thomson
2018-12-14 14:00 - 18:00 | Rev: Ithaca Startup Works, 314 E State St, Ithaca
Rev: Ithaca Startup Work’s Office Hours give members the opportunity to reserve an appointment with a Rev Entrepreneur-In-Residence (EIR) or a guest expert to discuss strategy, seek assistance with business connections, and receive valuable feedback. Office Hours are hosted by our EIRs or selected guests on a rotating basis and are typically offered each week.

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EIR Office Hours with Gregory Thomson will be held 2:00pm-6:00pm & pre-registration is required for a 30-minute session. Registration for this event will close the day before the event, on December 13th at 9:00am. If you are interested in attending these Office Hours & miss the registration sign-up, please contact Cara Harbinger at cmh379@cornell.edu.

About Gregory Thomson:
Greg Thomson is an attorney and strategic advisor based in Ithaca and New York City, with over 20 years of experience in digital media, entertainment and technology. He also serves as Strategic Advisor to Cornell’s Center for Technology Licensing.
Greg has headed business development for venture-financed startup companies including the S.R. Guggenheim Foundation’s digital media company and Sports Museums of America, and also held a senior business development position at NBCi in San Francisco. He began his post-MBA career as a communications /media/technology strategy consultant with PwC’s Strategy& in New York.
As a media industry lawyer and executive, Greg headed business affairs for LA-based Quincy Jones Productions, served as VP of Partnerships for Discovery Communications, and has represented clients including Dr. Dre, Youssou N’Dour, and the Estate of Gil Scott-Heron. He has also served as an entertainment economics expert witness in major entertainment industry litigation, including on behalf of the City of Los Angeles in the federal wrongful death lawsuit filed by heirs of slain rapper Notorious B.I.G.
Greg’s ongoing private law practice work includes intellectual property and software licensing, venture financing, private placements, film financing transactions, media mergers and acquisitions, corporate sponsorships and endorsements, literary rights acquisitions, distribution agreements, and a wide variety of digital media, technology, and music, television and film industry transactions.
Greg received an MBA from Columbia Business School, a JD from Yale Law School, and a BA from Yale College.

Ithaca High School Business Competition
2018-12-19 17:00 | Rev: Ithaca Startup Works, 314 E State St, Ithaca
More information to come! Please check back again soon.

Rev Member Exclusive: EIR Office Hours with Max Henry
2019-01-02 08:00 - 17:00, 2019-01-22 08:00 - 17:00 | Geneva
Rev: Ithaca Startup Work’s Office Hours give members the opportunity to reserve an appointment with a Rev Entrepreneur-In-Residence (EIR) or a guest expert to discuss strategy, seek assistance with business connections, and receive valuable feedback. Office Hours are hosted by our EIRs or selected guests on a rotating basis and are typically offered each week.

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Office Hours will be held 8:00am-5:00pm & registration is required for a 30-minute session.

About Max Henry:
Max Henry is the latest mentor to become an Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR) serving startup members of Rev: Ithaca Startup Works. Based out of Cornell AgriTech’s Center of Excellence in Food and Agriculture in Geneva, NY, Henry will host office hours at Rev and the Center of Excellence in Geneva regularly and be available for consultation.
In addition to connecting food and agriculture startups with resources in New York state, Henry will leverage his 25 years of experience leading Silicon Valley internet, consumer, and business-to-business technology companies to offer mentorship and advice to startup members.
Henry is passionate about helping companies across all industries and is excited about the continued energy and growth in New York’s startup ecosystem. His biggest piece of advice for startups is: “It’s all about people. Don’t spend all your time on tech or research, but build a solid team in order to build the company. If you do that well, you will be successful.”
Henry is currently the founder and president of Humming Bird Leadership, a leadership development firm that helps people, teams, and organizations win. Henry also serves as an Entrepreneur in Residence for NextCorps in Rochester, NY. His former experience includes serving as president and CEO of multiple companies including Topica (internet marketing), PrivateExpress (digital courier delivery company), Fabrik Communications (business messaging company, sold to Critical Path), and JSB Corporation (global software company, sold as SurfControl to Websense).
In other roles, he served as vice president and general manager of Information Access Company (sold to Thomson), executive vice president and general manager of U.S. Telestar, and vice president and general manager of NeXT Computer (sold to Apple), where he was a direct report to Steve Jobs and was part of the executive policy team. Henry has served on numerous boards of directors and advisory boards and is currently board chairman at InfoStreet, an Inc 500 SaaS company.
Henry holds an MBA degree in Finance and Marketing from the University of Oregon and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Hobart College. Henry and his spouse Merry live in Geneva and have three grown children: Kaitlin, Robert, and Peter; and three grandchildren: Finn, Elle, and Lila.
Contact Max Henry at maxhbl@gmail.com.

Rev Member Exclusive: EIR Office Hours with Elisa Miller-Out
2019-01-02 13:00 - 14:30 | Rev: Ithaca Startup Works, 314 E State St, Ithaca
Rev: Ithaca Startup Work’s Office Hours give members the opportunity to reserve an appointment with a Rev Entrepreneur-In-Residence (EIR) or a guest expert to discuss strategy, seek assistance with business connections, and receive valuable feedback. Office Hours are hosted by our EIRs or selected guests on a rotating basis and are typically offered each week.

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EIR Office Hours with Elisa Miller-Out will be held 1:00pm-2:30pm & registration is required for a 30-minute session.

About Elisa Miller-Out:
Currently, Miller-Out serves as the managing partner at Chloe Capital, a seed stage venture capital investment fund focused on women-led technology companies. She’s also co-founder of PollQ, a chatbot polling tool for higher education, and a board member at Women 2.0, the leading media brand for women in tech.
In 2016, Elisa oversaw a successful acquisition deal with a division of Singlebrook, a custom software services firm that she co-founded and led as CEO for over 10 years. She is the company’s CFO as well as chair of the board. Singlebrook has Fortune 500, higher education, and nonprofit clients from around the world including: Cornell, Yale, Henry Schein, Hitachi, the Sierra Club, the Environmental Defense Fund, and more.
Prior to starting Singlebrook, Elisa founded two other companies and worked in a variety of industries in New York City. She has also launched several networking groups and regularly serves as a mentor and judge for startup accelerators and competitions. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from Barnard College of Columbia University. Learn more at www.elisamillerout.com.

Rev Member Exclusive: EIR Office Hours with Brad Treat
2019-01-04 09:00 - 12:00 | Rev: Ithaca Startup Works, 314 E State St, Ithaca
Rev members are invited to schedule a time to meet with Rev Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR), Brad Treat, on Friday, January 4th.
Office Hours will be held 9:00am-12:00pm & registration is required for a 30-minute session. Registration for this event will close on Thursday, January 3rd at 9:00am. If you are interested in attending these Office Hours & miss the registration sign-up, please contact Cara Harbinger at cmh379@cornell.edu

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About Brad Treat:

Brad is a career entrepreneur with an emphasis on technology-driven companies. Brad was most recently the Founding CEO of Mezmeriz, a high-tech company making interactive projectors and reality capture cameras to embed into mobile phones. Mezmeriz is based on patented MEMS technology developed by company co-founder Shahyaan Desai at Cornell. Previously, he was the Entrepreneur-In-Residence at Cornell University.
Brad was also the co-founder and CEO of SightSpeed, an innovative video and voice communications company. Together with co-founders Aron Rosenberg and Cornell Professor Toby Berger, Brad grew SightSpeed from a university research project into the world’s premier video calling software. SightSpeed was profitably acquired by Logitech for $30M.
Earlier in his career, Brad worked for eight years in the automotive industry in both the US and Spain at Bowles Fluidics and GKN Automotive. He holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from North Carolina State, and an MBA from the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell.
Brad lives in Ithaca, New York. He is faculty at Johnson at Cornell, Cornell Engineering, and Ithaca College teaching practical entrepreneurship, empathetic leadership, and project management. With the loving support of his wife Kristin and sideways looks from his children, he competes in long-distance triathlons in the “Clydesdale” division, has done a few Ironman triathlons, and has finished a handful of marathons without walking.

January Lunch 'n' Learn: Creating a Website that Drives Action
2019-01-04 12:00 - 13:00 | Rev: Ithaca Startup Works, 314 E State St, Ithaca
Bring your lunch (or order in) and gather for a presentation focused on website basics, tips, & tricks! This event is for Rev Member Companies and friends in the startup community.

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Creating a website that drives action
with Mariellen VanDyke Brown of Happy Tree Solutions- Friday, January 4th from 12-1pm
As more information becomes available online, many websites have turned into collections of content. As business owners and marketers try to get various messages out, there’s often a “just put it on the website” mentality.
How do you know if this content collection is actually converting sales for your business? What information does your customer need to know before they are ready to buy, and what content is getting in the way of their user experience?
We’ll cover website best practices, tips on writing copy that drives an action, and how to tell if your website is working for your business goals.
If you’re thinking about launching a new website or simply giving your current website a facelift, this brainstorming session will help you create a site that serves specific goals, focuses on user experience, and ties back to your bottom line.

Mariellen VanDyke Brown is a website designer and owner of Happy Tree Solutions, a marketing & design company in Ithaca, NY. She specializes in communication strategy and WordPress customizations. When she’s not on a computer, she teaches yoga/meditation, and creates intricate papercutting artwork.
If you link out to websites, you could link “Happy Tree Solutions” to https://www.happytreesolutions.com/

Rev Member Exclusive: EIR Office Hours with Greg Thomson
2019-01-04 14:00 - 18:00 | Rev: Ithaca Startup Works, 314 E State St, Ithaca
Rev: Ithaca Startup Work’s Office Hours give members the opportunity to reserve an appointment with a Rev Entrepreneur-In-Residence (EIR) or a guest expert to discuss strategy, seek assistance with business connections, and receive valuable feedback. Office Hours are hosted by our EIRs or selected guests on a rotating basis and are typically offered each week.

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EIR Office Hours with Gregory Thomson will be held 2:00pm-6:00pm & pre-registration is required for a 30-minute session. Registration for this event will close the day before the event, on January 3rd at 9:00am. If you are interested in attending these Office Hours & miss the registration sign-up, please contact Cara Harbinger at cmh379@cornell.edu.

About Gregory Thomson:
Greg Thomson is an attorney and strategic advisor based in Ithaca and New York City, with over 20 years of experience in digital media, entertainment and technology. He also serves as Strategic Advisor to Cornell’s Center for Technology Licensing.
Greg has headed business development for venture-financed startup companies including the S.R. Guggenheim Foundation’s digital media company and Sports Museums of America, and also held a senior business development position at NBCi in San Francisco. He began his post-MBA career as a communications /media/technology strategy consultant with PwC’s Strategy& in New York.
As a media industry lawyer and executive, Greg headed business affairs for LA-based Quincy Jones Productions, served as VP of Partnerships for Discovery Communications, and has represented clients including Dr. Dre, Youssou N’Dour, and the Estate of Gil Scott-Heron. He has also served as an entertainment economics expert witness in major entertainment industry litigation, including on behalf of the City of Los Angeles in the federal wrongful death lawsuit filed by heirs of slain rapper Notorious B.I.G.
Greg’s ongoing private law practice work includes intellectual property and software licensing, venture financing, private placements, film financing transactions, media mergers and acquisitions, corporate sponsorships and endorsements, literary rights acquisitions, distribution agreements, and a wide variety of digital media, technology, and music, television and film industry transactions.
Greg received an MBA from Columbia Business School, a JD from Yale Law School, and a BA from Yale College.

Rev Member Exclusive: EIR Office Hours with Brian Bauer
2019-01-08 12:00 - 14:30 | Rev: Ithaca Startup Works, 314 E State St, Ithaca
Rev: Ithaca Startup Work’s Office Hours give members the opportunity to reserve an appointment with a Rev Entrepreneur-In-Residence (EIR) or a guest expert to discuss strategy, seek assistance with business connections, and receive valuable feedback. Office Hours are hosted by our EIRs or selected guests on a rotating basis and are typically offered each week.

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EIR Office Hours with Brian Bauer will be held 12:00pm – 2:30pm & pre-registration is required for a 30-minute session. Registration for this event will close the day before the event, on Monday, January 7th at 9:00am. If you are interested in attending these Office Hours & miss the registration sign-up, please contact Cara Harbinger at cmh379@cornell.edu.

About Brian Bauer:
Brian Bauer is the Program Director for clean energy programs with Cornell’s Center for Regional Economic Advancement. Brian runs 76West, NYSERDA’s clean energy business competition, and he is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence for the Southern Tier Startup Alliance, a member organization of incubators across the Southern Tier which is a collaboration between Cornell, Binghamton University, and Corning Enterprises.
Brian is a seasoned international energy industry executive with extensive experience in Oil, Natural Gas, Chemicals, and renewables in the United States, Asia, and Europe. Brian ran several international businesses during a 30-year career in the energy industry and has expertise in operations, strategy, business development, mergers and acquisitions, major project management, corporate governance and organizational change.
Brian has a B.S. In Chemical Engineering from Cornell and an MBA in Operations and Finance from the University of Chicago. In addition to his entrepreneurial work, Brian lectures at Cornell and serves on the Board of the Paleontological Research Institute, which includes the Museum of the Earth and the Cayuga Nature Center, both near Ithaca.

Rev Member Exclusive: EIR Office Hours with Elisa Miller-Out
2019-01-09 14:00 - 14:30 | Rev: Ithaca Startup Works, 314 E State St, Ithaca
Rev: Ithaca Startup Work’s Office Hours give members the opportunity to reserve an appointment with a Rev Entrepreneur-In-Residence (EIR) or a guest expert to discuss strategy, seek assistance with business connections, and receive valuable feedback. Office Hours are hosted by our EIRs or selected guests on a rotating basis and are typically offered each week.

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EIR Office Hours with Elisa Miller-Out will be held 2:00pm-2:30pm & registration is required for a 30-minute session.

About Elisa Miller-Out:
Currently, Miller-Out serves as the managing partner at Chloe Capital, a seed stage venture capital investment fund focused on women-led technology companies. She’s also co-founder of PollQ, a chatbot polling tool for higher education, and a board member at Women 2.0, the leading media brand for women in tech.
In 2016, Elisa oversaw a successful acquisition deal with a division of Singlebrook, a custom software services firm that she co-founded and led as CEO for over 10 years. She is the company’s CFO as well as chair of the board. Singlebrook has Fortune 500, higher education, and nonprofit clients from around the world including: Cornell, Yale, Henry Schein, Hitachi, the Sierra Club, the Environmental Defense Fund, and more.
Prior to starting Singlebrook, Elisa founded two other companies and worked in a variety of industries in New York City. She has also launched several networking groups and regularly serves as a mentor and judge for startup accelerators and competitions. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from Barnard College of Columbia University. Learn more at www.elisamillerout.com.

Brunch & Learn: No Sales = No Business!
2019-01-10 08:30 - 21:30 | Rev: Ithaca Startup Works, 314 E State St, Ithaca
Sales: The Love/Hate Relationship
Nearly all members of a startup find themselves assisting with sales at some point. You can’t escape it. Sales are crucial to startups. Some people love it and others try to steer clear. Everyone seems to have a different sales style.
We are gathering business development staff, sales staff, and staff that pitch in with sales to discuss tactics and trade stories. Join us at Rev: Ithaca Startup Works on January 10th from 8:30 – 9:30 am.

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Rev Member Exclusive: EIR Office Hours with Max Henry
2019-01-15 08:00 - 17:00 | Rev: Ithaca Startup Works, 314 E State St, Ithaca

Rev Member Exclusive: EIR Office Hours with Greg Thomson
2019-01-18 14:00 - 18:00 | Rev: Ithaca Startup Works, 314 E State St, Ithaca
Rev: Ithaca Startup Work’s Office Hours give members the opportunity to reserve an appointment with a Rev Entrepreneur-In-Residence (EIR) or a guest expert to discuss strategy, seek assistance with business connections, and receive valuable feedback. Office Hours are hosted by our EIRs or selected guests on a rotating basis and are typically offered each week.

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EIR Office Hours with Gregory Thomson will be held 2:00pm-6:00pm & pre-registration is required for a 30-minute session. Registration for this event will close the day before the event, on January 17th at 9:00am. If you are interested in attending these Office Hours & miss the registration sign-up, please contact Cara Harbinger at cmh379@cornell.edu.

About Gregory Thomson:
Greg Thomson is an attorney and strategic advisor based in Ithaca and New York City, with over 20 years of experience in digital media, entertainment and technology. He also serves as Strategic Advisor to Cornell’s Center for Technology Licensing.
Greg has headed business development for venture-financed startup companies including the S.R. Guggenheim Foundation’s digital media company and Sports Museums of America, and also held a senior business development position at NBCi in San Francisco. He began his post-MBA career as a communications /media/technology strategy consultant with PwC’s Strategy& in New York.
As a media industry lawyer and executive, Greg headed business affairs for LA-based Quincy Jones Productions, served as VP of Partnerships for Discovery Communications, and has represented clients including Dr. Dre, Youssou N’Dour, and the Estate of Gil Scott-Heron. He has also served as an entertainment economics expert witness in major entertainment industry litigation, including on behalf of the City of Los Angeles in the federal wrongful death lawsuit filed by heirs of slain rapper Notorious B.I.G.
Greg’s ongoing private law practice work includes intellectual property and software licensing, venture financing, private placements, film financing transactions, media mergers and acquisitions, corporate sponsorships and endorsements, literary rights acquisitions, distribution agreements, and a wide variety of digital media, technology, and music, television and film industry transactions.
Greg received an MBA from Columbia Business School, a JD from Yale Law School, and a BA from Yale College.

Rev Member Exclusive: EIR Office Hours with Elisa Miller-Out
2019-01-23 13:30 - 14:30, 2019-01-30 13:30 - 14:30 | Rev: Ithaca Startup Works, 314 E State St, Ithaca
Rev: Ithaca Startup Work’s Office Hours give members the opportunity to reserve an appointment with a Rev Entrepreneur-In-Residence (EIR) or a guest expert to discuss strategy, seek assistance with business connections, and receive valuable feedback. Office Hours are hosted by our EIRs or selected guests on a rotating basis and are typically offered each week.

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EIR Office Hours with Elisa Miller-Out will be held 1:30pm-2:30pm & registration is required for a 30-minute session.

About Elisa Miller-Out:
Currently, Miller-Out serves as the managing partner at Chloe Capital, a seed stage venture capital investment fund focused on women-led technology companies. She’s also co-founder of PollQ, a chatbot polling tool for higher education, and a board member at Women 2.0, the leading media brand for women in tech.
In 2016, Elisa oversaw a successful acquisition deal with a division of Singlebrook, a custom software services firm that she co-founded and led as CEO for over 10 years. She is the company’s CFO as well as chair of the board. Singlebrook has Fortune 500, higher education, and nonprofit clients from around the world including: Cornell, Yale, Henry Schein, Hitachi, the Sierra Club, the Environmental Defense Fund, and more.
Prior to starting Singlebrook, Elisa founded two other companies and worked in a variety of industries in New York City. She has also launched several networking groups and regularly serves as a mentor and judge for startup accelerators and competitions. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from Barnard College of Columbia University. Learn more at www.elisamillerout.com.

Rev Members Exclusive: CEO & Sponsor Morning Coffee
2019-01-25 08:00 - 09:30 | Rev: Ithaca Startup Works, 314 E State St, Ithaca
All CEOs of Rev Member Companies and Rev Sponsors are invited to sit down over a cup of locally-roasted coffee and connect during this casual meetup. Registration is by invitation-only.

Rev Member Exclusive: EIR Office Hours with Max Henry
2019-01-29 08:00 - 17:00 | Rev: Ithaca Startup Works, 314 E State St, Ithaca
Rev: Ithaca Startup Work’s Office Hours give members the opportunity to reserve an appointment with a Rev Entrepreneur-In-Residence (EIR) or a guest expert to discuss strategy, seek assistance with business connections, and receive valuable feedback. Office Hours are hosted by our EIRs or selected guests on a rotating basis and are typically offered each week.

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Office Hours will be held 8:00am-5:00pm & registration is required for a 30-minute session.

About Max Henry:
Max Henry is the latest mentor to become an Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR) serving startup members of Rev: Ithaca Startup Works. Based out of Cornell AgriTech’s Center of Excellence in Food and Agriculture in Geneva, NY, Henry will host office hours at Rev and the Center of Excellence in Geneva regularly and be available for consultation.
In addition to connecting food and agriculture startups with resources in New York state, Henry will leverage his 25 years of experience leading Silicon Valley internet, consumer, and business-to-business technology companies to offer mentorship and advice to startup members.
Henry is passionate about helping companies across all industries and is excited about the continued energy and growth in New York’s startup ecosystem. His biggest piece of advice for startups is: “It’s all about people. Don’t spend all your time on tech or research, but build a solid team in order to build the company. If you do that well, you will be successful.”
Henry is currently the founder and president of Humming Bird Leadership, a leadership development firm that helps people, teams, and organizations win. Henry also serves as an Entrepreneur in Residence for NextCorps in Rochester, NY. His former experience includes serving as president and CEO of multiple companies including Topica (internet marketing), PrivateExpress (digital courier delivery company), Fabrik Communications (business messaging company, sold to Critical Path), and JSB Corporation (global software company, sold as SurfControl to Websense).
In other roles, he served as vice president and general manager of Information Access Company (sold to Thomson), executive vice president and general manager of U.S. Telestar, and vice president and general manager of NeXT Computer (sold to Apple), where he was a direct report to Steve Jobs and was part of the executive policy team. Henry has served on numerous boards of directors and advisory boards and is currently board chairman at InfoStreet, an Inc 500 SaaS company.
Henry holds an MBA degree in Finance and Marketing from the University of Oregon and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Hobart College. Henry and his spouse Merry live in Geneva and have three grown children: Kaitlin, Robert, and Peter; and three grandchildren: Finn, Elle, and Lila.
Contact Max Henry at maxhbl@gmail.com.vvv

Networking@Rev: Hardware
2019-01-30 18:00 - 20:30 | Rev: Ithaca Startup Works, 314 E State St, Ithaca
Hardware Heroes: Making Physical Products that Matter
Creating physical products with hardware components is not for the faint of heart. Innovation, prototyping, iterating, speaking with customers, more iterating, and scaling are all massive challenges.
Join us for Rev’s January Networking Night and meet hardware founders and startups at every phase of growth. Hear from engineering leaders and learn about the latest in hardware innovation.
ALL are welcome. Complimentary food and drink will be served. Please RSVP.

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Rev Member Exclusive: EIR Office Hours with Brad Treat
2019-02-01 09:00 - 12:00 | Rev: Ithaca Startup Works, 314 E State St, Ithaca
Rev members are invited to schedule a time to meet with Rev Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR), Brad Treat, on Friday, February 1st.
Office Hours will be held 9:30am-12:30pm & registration is required for a 30-minute session. Registration for this event will close on Thursday, January 31st at 9:00am. If you are interested in attending these Office Hours & miss the registration sign-up, please contact Cara Harbinger at cmh379@cornell.edu

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About Brad Treat:

Brad is a career entrepreneur with an emphasis on technology-driven companies. Brad was most recently the Founding CEO of Mezmeriz, a high-tech company making interactive projectors and reality capture cameras to embed into mobile phones. Mezmeriz is based on patented MEMS technology developed by company co-founder Shahyaan Desai at Cornell. Previously, he was the Entrepreneur-In-Residence at Cornell University.
Brad was also the co-founder and CEO of SightSpeed, an innovative video and voice communications company. Together with co-founders Aron Rosenberg and Cornell Professor Toby Berger, Brad grew SightSpeed from a university research project into the world’s premier video calling software. SightSpeed was profitably acquired by Logitech for $30M.
Earlier in his career, Brad worked for eight years in the automotive industry in both the US and Spain at Bowles Fluidics and GKN Automotive. He holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from North Carolina State, and an MBA from the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell.
Brad lives in Ithaca, New York. He is faculty at Johnson at Cornell, Cornell Engineering, and Ithaca College teaching practical entrepreneurship, empathetic leadership, and project management. With the loving support of his wife Kristin and sideways looks from his children, he competes in long-distance triathlons in the “Clydesdale” division, has done a few Ironman triathlons, and has finished a handful of marathons without walking.

Rev Members Exclusive: Lunch 'n' Learn
2019-02-01 12:00 - 13:00
Bring your lunch (or order in) and gather for a short presentation on a timely topic – topic to be announced soon! This event is for Rev Member Companies and employees only.
More info to come!

Rev Member Exclusive: EIR Office Hours with Greg Thomson
2019-02-01 14:00 - 18:00 | Rev: Ithaca Startup Works, 314 E State St, Ithaca
Rev: Ithaca Startup Work’s Office Hours give members the opportunity to reserve an appointment with a Rev Entrepreneur-In-Residence (EIR) or a guest expert to discuss strategy, seek assistance with business connections, and receive valuable feedback. Office Hours are hosted by our EIRs or selected guests on a rotating basis and are typically offered each week.

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EIR Office Hours with Gregory Thomson will be held 2:00pm-6:00pm & pre-registration is required for a 30-minute session. Registration for this event will close the day before the event, on January 31st at 9:00am. If you are interested in attending these Office Hours & miss the registration sign-up, please contact Cara Harbinger at cmh379@cornell.edu.

About Gregory Thomson:
Greg Thomson is an attorney and strategic advisor based in Ithaca and New York City, with over 20 years of experience in digital media, entertainment and technology. He also serves as Strategic Advisor to Cornell’s Center for Technology Licensing.
Greg has headed business development for venture-financed startup companies including the S.R. Guggenheim Foundation’s digital media company and Sports Museums of America, and also held a senior business development position at NBCi in San Francisco. He began his post-MBA career as a communications /media/technology strategy consultant with PwC’s Strategy& in New York.
As a media industry lawyer and executive, Greg headed business affairs for LA-based Quincy Jones Productions, served as VP of Partnerships for Discovery Communications, and has represented clients including Dr. Dre, Youssou N’Dour, and the Estate of Gil Scott-Heron. He has also served as an entertainment economics expert witness in major entertainment industry litigation, including on behalf of the City of Los Angeles in the federal wrongful death lawsuit filed by heirs of slain rapper Notorious B.I.G.
Greg’s ongoing private law practice work includes intellectual property and software licensing, venture financing, private placements, film financing transactions, media mergers and acquisitions, corporate sponsorships and endorsements, literary rights acquisitions, distribution agreements, and a wide variety of digital media, technology, and music, television and film industry transactions.
Greg received an MBA from Columbia Business School, a JD from Yale Law School, and a BA from Yale College.

Hardware Accelerator Info Session
2019-02-05 18:30 - 20:00 | ehub Kennedy Hall
Join us for the Hardware Accelerator Information Session from 6:30 – 8pm at eHub Kennedy Hall in the large workspace. Pizza provided.
