Subject: TOMORROW: Join us for a call with SBA on access to capital for startups and small businesses
From: "Shumway Marshall, Business Forward" <[email-masked]>
To: Jordan Kaplan <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 19:50:07 +0000

Jordan, 

Don't forget to sign up for tomorrow's conference call on access to capital. From his time at Fortune 500 companies, venture capitalist firms, startups, and the Small Business Administration, Mark Walsh has a wealth of experience. This will be a helpful call for any small business or startup looking for outside investment.

Here's the link to register: http://action.businessfwd.org/page/s/accesstocapital-RSVPyes.

I hope you can make it.

Shumway
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From: Shumway Marshall, Business Forward
Date: Wednesday, April 20, 2016 at 1:54 PM
Subject: INVITE: Join us for a call with SBA on access to capital for startups and small businesses

Jordan-- 

Are you looking for outside investment to grow your startup or small business?

Join us for a conference call with Mark Walsh, the Associate Administrator for Investment and Innovation at the U.S. Small Business Administration.

With over 30 years of experience as a technology entrepreneur, Mark Walsh has taken turns as a Fortune 500 senior executive, angel investor, venture capitalist, and startup founder. 

He will discuss SBA's resources to help small businesses like yours access the capital you need to grow your business. This call is a chance to speak directly with Assistant Administrator Walsh about your business and provide feedback on the SBA's investment programs.

Can you join our conference call on access to capital?

Yes> http://action.businessfwd.org/page/s/accesstocapital-RSVPyes
No> http://action.businessfwd.org/page/s/accesstocapital-RSVPno

If you can't make it, sign up to receive a recording: http://action.businessfwd.org/page/s/accesstocapital-RSVPno

Here are the details:

WHAT:
Conference call on access to capital

WHO:
Mark Walsh
Associate Administrator for Investment and Innovation
U.S. Small Business Administration

WHEN:
Tuesday, April 26
12:30 p.m. ET / 9:30 a.m. PT

Here's the link to register for this call: http://action.businessfwd.org/page/s/accesstocapital-RSVPyes.

If you can't make it, here's the link receive a recording: http://action.businessfwd.org/page/s/accesstocapital-RSVPno.

Thanks,

Shumway Marshall
Digital Director
Business Forward

ABOUT MARK WALSH

Mark Walsh is the Small Business Administration's Office of Investment and Innovation's new Associate Administrator. Mark has more than 30 years of experience as a technology entrepreneur, manager and investor. Prior to SBA, Mark was executive chairman of Homesnap.com, a "prosumer" platform/app for residential real-estate backed by Revolution Ventures and CEO and Co-founder of GeniusRocket, a leading provider of crowd-sourced marketing for major brands and global non-profits. He has been a division head and senior executive at technology and content companies, like GE, AOL, HBO, and others.  
Mark was the CEO and Chairman of VerticalNet, a leading provider of B2B "communities of commerce." He took the company public on the NASDAQ in 1999, and was named one of Upside Magazine Elite 100 leaders of global technology in 2000 and CEO of the year by the Eastern Technology Council in 2001.

More recently, Mark has been an active angel investor, shareholder or board member/advisor in a number of successful start-ups and high growth companies like: BlackBoard (NASDAQ: BBBB), NutriSystems, (NASDAQ: NTRI), Thestreet.com (NADAQ: TST), Day Software (Bought by Adobe), Verical.com (Bought by Arrow Electronics), half.com (Bought by eBay), Sensics-HUD Technology, LifeShield.com (bought by DirectTV) and many others. He has been named one of 100 "Tech-Titans" by Washingtonian Magazine for each edition since 2009 until today.
Mark was an entrepreneur-in-residence, then chairman of the board of advisors to the Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Maryland, and is on the board of the Bipartisan Policy Center, a DC based thought leader and think-tank. He is active in other not for profits, having served on the boards of the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony and the NY Theatre Workshop (where the play "Rent" debuted).

Mark has also been very active in U.S. politics, serving as the first Chief Technology Advisor to the Democratic National Committee and Head of Internet operations for the Kerry Presidential Campaign in 2004. He was the founding chairman of the New Leaders Council, a mentoring and training organization for young progressives with chapters in 45 cities.
Mark holds a BA from Union College in NY, and was the chair of their board of Trustees. He received his MBA from the Harvard Business School.----

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