ENTREPRENEURS IN RESIDENCE
By DONNA BOGATIN • Feb 23rd, 2008 • Category: STARTUP ALPHA ECOSYSTEMSTARTUPALPHA.COM’s Entrepreneurs In Residence program is the startup incubation component of the Startup Alpha ecosystem, where Donna Bogatin brings her 20+ year track record of investment banking, entrepreneurship, academic and business analytics to STARTUPALPHA.COM, at the service of technology entrepreneurs and all players in the startup economy.
n 1997, Donna created the first “Internet For entrepreneurs” workshop in New York City, on behalf of the Small Business Administration’s SCORE coaching program for startups.
Donna instructed Fortune 500 MBA candidates on how best to use the Internet for competitive advantage as Adjunct Professor of Information Systems for her alma matter, the New York University Stern Graduate School of Business Administration.
As an international investment banker and Director of Mergers & Acquisitions for Societe Generale Securities corporation, Donna interacted in the field with hundreds of startup entrepreneurs, in the U.S. and abroad, and reviewed thousands of strategic direct investment opportunities.
Donna is an entrepreneur for her own account as well and was featured on the NY1 cable news station’s tech report for her work with her local venture, UrbanSavings.com, one of the first interactive directional media properties designed to drive online consumers to offline businesses.
For the past two years, Donna has been probing the business heart of the Internet as a blogger, initially under the ZDNet Digital Markets banner and later for her own account at InsiderChatter.com. When Donna launched her own blogging brand, Craig Newmark, craigslist founder, remarked:
Donna Bogatin, who as of yesterday was the leading blogger at zdnet, has started her own effort now. She’s started with a much too kind interview of me; I suspect I was a little too relaxed.
Donna’s insightful business model analysis and in-depth real world perspective are signatures of her widely appreciated industry commentary. Over the past two years, Donna has attended and reported on dozens of technology and media conferences and met with and interviewed dozens of technology and media CEOs and venture capitalists.
Donna also is sought after for technology conference panel appearances. Recently, Donna shared the stage with Don Dodge, Microsoft, and Eric Auchard, Reuters, for the closing media panel of the Research Triangle Council For Entrepreneurial Development Tech 2007 Conference, “Technology Trends of Today and Tomorrow.” Donna also joined The Kelsey Group analysts on stage for their signature “Big Thinkers” panel during the 2007 Interactive Local Media Conference in Los Angeles.
Now, via STARTUPALPHA.COM’s Entrepreneurs In Residence program, Donna is available for one-on-one strategy and operations consultations for all phases of the startup life cycle.
Donna holds an M.B.A., a M.A. and a B.A., all from New York University and is fluent in the French language.
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DONNA BOGATIN is the Founder & CEO of STARTUP ALPHA
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