Reservations continue to roll in for the Tribeworks One Day Business Accelerator taking place November 13th at the Hilton Garden Inn in Staten Island. Designed to provide attendees with foundational business tools from leading business professors and CEOs, Tribeworks will also offer one on one access to funding sources, buyers, innovators and business leaders to create an unprecedented growth tool for early stage and growing businesses.
Tribeworks is a newly formed collaboration between major Jewish business assistance organizations including the Crown Heights Young Entrepreneurs, Hebrew Free Loan Society, The Jewish Woman Entrepreneur, Exceed Network, The Jewish Entrepreneur and EPI, along with the support of major national organizations such as the OU and news outlets such as COLlive.com.
The event will begin with registration and breakfast followed by a keynote session titled From Selling Hot Dogs to Curing Cancer and a Multi-Billion Dollar Exit: My Life as an Entrepreneur, featuring IDT CEO Howard Jonas sharing his personal experiences in the business world. The remainder of the morning will have participants choosing from three separate tracks of sessions dedicated to foundational business lessons, building solid financial foundations and sales and marketing.
A second keynote session given by former Harvard business professor and best-selling author, University of South Carolina professor Noam Wasserman, will take place during lunch and will be followed by a presentation on business ethics, integrity and halacha given by Rabbi Yosef Kushner, author of multiple best-selling books on business on Jewish law.
Attendees will get to hear and interact with panelists in four concurrent discussions on e-commerce, wholesale, technology and service businesses during the afternoon before the event concludes with more than two hours of networking and roundtables offering the opportunity to meet one on one with many of the day’s speakers, including presentations to retail buyers. Participants will also meet and speak with companies offering products and services tailored to their needs during a dedicated resource fair.
As part of the Tribeworks experience, an elevator pitch competition will give ten pre-selected participants an opportunity to present their business ideas, with the winner receiving a comprehensive brand build-out that will include branding strategy and implementation from 14 Minds as well as full access to the Tribeworks network of resources for seed money, mentoring and exposure. A day spent at Tribeworks is time well spent, noted Wasserman, providing benefits at the initial stages of any business, as well as in the months and years to come.
“The stellar Tribeworks lineup will provide entrepreneurs with a solid foundation for founding and growing any business, while also providing tracks and options for tailoring sessions to your specific interests,” said Wasserman. “It will also help build a support network and peer group for dealing with the inevitable founding dilemmas that can make or break a successful startup. Investing one day of time in attending Tribeworks will help accelerate your thinking and progress by weeks or months.”
“Tribeworks is so much more than this initial event,” said Zevy Wolman, one of the collaboration’s co-founders. “It is a platform consisting of a group of dedicated organizations and individuals that will be working together to provide business owners in our communities with a variety of opportunities to help their businesses thrive.”
Carecentrix president and COO Laizer Kornwasser, who will be interviewing Jonas during the morning keynote session, said that he believes that Tribeworks will provide participants with a streamlined opportunity to achieve maximum success.
“Every three minutes a new business starts in the United States despite the fact that over 50 percent will fail,” said Kornwasser. “Our focus is to help entrepreneurs in our community increase the odds of success through education, mentorship, networking and financing opportunities.”
Those thoughts were echoed by investor, board member and former president of NBA, and VP at Marvel, Disney and Viacom, David Schreff.
“For all the years that I’ve served as a senior executive and board director for public and private companies, I’ve enjoyed mentoring and cultivating the entrepreneurial spirit in co-workers so I am happy to contribute to this expanding program on behalf of such a wide array of talented entrepreneurs,” said Schreff. “The mandate to simultaneously protect consumer privacy while created tailored data driven marketing plans is one of the fundamental challenges of growing successful ventures today.”
For more information, to register for Tribeworks or to apply for the elevator pitch competition, visit www.Tribeworks.org.
many of these events just recycle the same speakers.