Texas Evening Entrepreneurs

First off, I’d like to welcome you all to another (or your first) year of TEMBA. As mentioned at the Austin Intensive, Neena Needel and I have taken over the responsibilities of Cynthia Lee and Ruben Miranda as vice-president and president. We’ve got several ideas on how to make TEE continue to live up to expectations providing excellent resources to entrepreneurs in the TEMBA program. We sincerely hope we will be able to do as good a job as Ruben and Cynthia did over the past year.

I’m sure you’re all mired in course work but we’ve got our first speaker event lined up and it looks to be an excellent one:

Speaker Event

Who: Hall T. Martin - Executive Director, Central Texas Angel Network
When: Saturday November 3, 2007 - 9:00am – 11:00am
Where: On Campus – UTC - Room TBD (signs will be posted)
RSVP: email Brian Romanko or Neena Needel

Hall T. Martin, the executive director of the Central Texas Angel Network has offered to give TEE an overview of angel funding and the angel environment in Central Texas. Prior to CTAN, Hall worked at National Instruments for twenty years in various positions including Product Strategy in which he developed the Lead User process. He also holds an MBA from UT Austin. For those of you that attended the venture capital presentation by professor Kevin Williams, this should be a good counterpoint.

Angel funding is a great opportunity for early-stage startups to explore. Not all startups come from Silicon Valley. Make time to network and know your local options.

Please RSVP by Thursday November 1. If you are not yet a TEE member, we still invite you to attend and see what we are all about. We hope to see all of you there!