Please see below for the final/complete agenda for this year's NY Business Expo (in Association with NYEBN). The event includes five components and lasts for two days.



1. Exhibiting Floor (12:00 PM - 6:00 PM, 11/14 & 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM, 11/15)


Sponsors:

• Verizon
  
• Amazon Web Services
  
• peopleperhour
  
• Chadbourne & Parke LLP
  
• Alley NYC
  
• Carbonite
  
• Marena Studios
  
• EarlyShares
  
• Print Early
  
• Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO)
  
• BA Cleaning Services etc.
  

Exhibitors:

• 5 Hour Energy
  
• Barnes & Noble
  
• CBS New York
  
• DNAinfo.com
  
• SendGrid
  
• ServCorp
  
• Tekserve
  
• Wix.com
  
• Wordivate
  

More...



Sign up for the October exhibitor deal (10/1 - 10/15) and save for 5%. For more info, download the pricing sheet here. Questions? Email us at .





2. Conference Component (a.k.a. Small Business Classroom, 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM, 11/14 & 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, 11/15)

Small Business Classroom (28 seminars) offers excellent resources to help business owners become more skillful with social media, technology, sales and marketing tactics, etc. Click here to get your ticket. Use code "NYEBN" to save 50%.



Agenda:

• 12:00 pm - 12:45 pm, Wednesday, 11/14 - Small Biz Panel By Lori Hoberman from Chadbourne (Room 1)
  
• 12:00 pm - 12:45 pm, Wednesday, 11/14 - Media Panel By Digital Ethos Panel (Room 2)
  
• 1:00 pm - 1:45 pm, Wednesday, 11/14 - Dreaming of the Big Win By Dan Porter (Room 1)
  
• 1:00 pm - 1:45 pm, Wednesday, 11/14 - War Stories from Startup Life: Lessons Learned By Sam Hamadeh (Room 2)
  
• 2:00 pm - 2:45 pm, Wednesday, 11/14 - Boost Sales - Give Your Customers Travel Incentives By Steve Kessler (Room 1) FREE REGISTER HERE
  
• 2:00 pm - 2:45 pm, Wednesday, 11/14 - Attention, Startups: Here's How To Fail Less By Bob Dorf (Room 2)
  
• 3:00 pm - 3:45 pm, Wednesday, 11/14 - EBooks for Everyone: Why digital book publishing is the next frontier for content Matthew Cavnar (Room 1)
  
• 3:00 pm - 3:45 pm, Wednesday, 11/14 - The Dirty Little (and Not So Little) Secrets of Entrepreneurship By Carol Roth (Room 2)
  
• 4:00 pm - 4:45 pm, Wednesday, 11/14 - The Entrepreneur's Secret Weapon: Membership In A Business Group By Matthew Weiss, Shep Sepaniak & Julia Pimsleur (Room 1)
  
• 4:00 pm - 4:45 pm, Wednesday, 11/14 - The Angel Angle in Early Stage Ventures By Avi Fogel (Room 2)
  
• 5:00 pm - 5:45 pm, Wednesday, 11/14 -  3 ways to use crowdfunding to fund your existing or new startup By Maurice Lopes (Room 1)
  
• 5:00 pm - 5:45 pm, Wednesday, 11/14 - History of Mobile Advertising By Nihal Mehta (Room 2)
  

 

• 10:00 am - 10:45 am, Thursday, 11/15 - What You Should Know About A Startup Accelerator? By Adam Rothenberg (Room 1)
  
• 10:00 am - 10:45 am, Thursday, 11/15 - You are so lucky... By John Frankel (Room 2)
  
• 11:00 am - 11:45 am, Thursday, 11/15 - What Every Small Business Should be Doing But Isn’t: A Quick Start Guide to a Disaster Preparedness Plan By Pete Lamson (Room 1) FREE REGISTER HERE
  
• 11:00 am - 11:45 am, Thursday, 11/15 - The Next Great Entrepreneurial Opportunity: How to Identify Market White Space By David Teten (Room 2)
  
• 12:00 pm - 12:45 pm, Thursday, 11/15 - bootstrapping your startup By Xenios Thrasyvoulou frompeopleperhour.com (Room 1)
  
• 12:00 pm - 12:45 pm, Thursday, 11/15 - From Wall Street to Main Street—How to Benefit from Crowdfund Investing By Sherwood Neiss (Room 2)
  
• 1:00 pm - 1:45 pm, Thursday, 11/15 - Come join the text Revolution and WIN BIG By Tom Dudley (Room 1) FREE REGISTER HERE
  
• 1:00 pm - 1:45 pm, Thursday, 11/15 - Competition vs Cooperation By Sam Liebowitz (Room 2)
  
• 2:00 pm - 2:45 pm, Thursday, 11/15 - Mastering the VC Game By Jeff Bussgang (Room 1)
  
• 2:00 pm - 2:45 pm, Thursday, 11/15 - Stand Up Comedy Techniques to Develop Top Selling Skills By Tim Davis (Room 2)
  
• 3:00 pm - 3:45 pm, Thursday, 11/15 - How to Be Liked - Not How to Get Likes By Peter Shankman (Room 1)
  
• 3:00 pm - 3:45 pm, Thursday, 11/15 - Leadership vs Leading: Is There A Difference? By Julian Sturton (Room 2) FREE REGISTER HERE
  
• 4:00 pm - 4:45 pm, Thursday, 11/15 - Run Entire Social Marketing Campaign in Four Hours a Week By Mary Agnes Antonopoulos (Room 1) FREE REGISTER HERE
  
• 4:00 pm - 4:45 pm, Thursday, 11/15 - How Social Media is Changing Everything and How you need to Change with it By Chris Dessi (Room 2)
  
• 5:00 pm - 5:45 pm, Thursday, 11/15 - You Have a Business That Needs Marketing -- Now Promote it! How to Promote Your Business and Turn Buzz to Leads By Miranda Tan (Room 1)
  
• 5:00 pm - 5:45 pm, Thursday, 11/15 - Cracking The Gen Y Code: Selling & Marketing to a Generation That HATES to be Sold To By Brad Szollose (Room 2)
  

Click here to get your ticket. Use code "NYEBN" to save 50%. We are currently accepting affiliates/partners to promote the show. Our affiliates will be compensated for spreading the word about the conference. If interested, send us a note at .





3. Startup Central (12:00 PM - 6:00 PM, 11/14 & 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, 11/15)

Startup Central is a key component for this Expo. It features experienced entrepreneurs and investors in a one-on-one mentoring environment. Startup Central is free to attend, but we require you to at least work in the consumer web, software or hardware industry to talk to our mentors. Students are welcome too! To check out our mentor list, click here. To register, click here.





4. After Hour Parties (7:00 PM - 9:30 PM on 11/14 & 11/15)



Open bar. Cool people. Unlimited networking. It just can't get any better! If you missed any Small Business Classroom or Startup Central sessions during the day, this would be your opportunity to catch up with our mentors, speakers and exhibitors. Besides, you will be able to meet hundreds of small business owners and startup entrepreneurs here. Click here to register.

 

* Please note that the location for the After Hour Parties is NOT the Armory! See details below:

 

When: 7:00 PM - 9:30 PM, 11/14 & 11/15

Where: Alley NYC

500 7th Ave., 17th Floor
New York, NY, 10018

Register: http://nybusinessexpo...





5. StartEngine Demo Day

StartEngine Demo Day is a special component that involves StartEngine, the largest startup accelerator in LA, flying their startups out to New York to showcase their disruptive technologies to the New York investors. While the show proves to be a highly valuable platform for the StartEngine startups, the fact that the Demo Day will be included as a part of NY Business Expo can provide great value to New York startup ecosystem as a whole. This partnership will be highly beneficial to expo attendees and exhibitors because it means there will be a whole lot more quality people and companies you can meet at the expo. This event will take place from 8:30 am - 11:00 am at the Armory on 11/14 and currently it's invite only.

 

 

 

Event of The Week

 

Startup Roundtable 17 with David Aronoff

 

When: Thursday, October 11, 2012 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (EDT)

Where: Chadbourne & Parke LLP

30 Rockefeller Plaza, 36th floor

New York, NY 10112

RSVP: Meetup or Eventbrite

 

 

 

 

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Maurice Lopes is an expert in building successful businesses. He is currently the CEO and co-founder ofEarlyShares.com. Conceived out of Mr. Lopes’ frustration in the lack of resources afforded to the small business owner, EarlyShares.com is dedicated to bridging the funding gap for small business entrepreneurs through the application of Crowdfunding.

 

Maurice will be a speaker at NY Business Expo. He will be discussing the 3 ways to use crowdfunding to fund your existing or new startup, covering the equity based crowdfunding process, opportunities, advantages and risks. The session will be of benefit to those interested in learning about the JOB's Act and the impact equity based crowding will have on entrepreneurs, startup, small businesses and investors. To register, click here. To find EarlyShares at NY Business Expo, visit Booth #133.

 

 

 

 

 

 

- Andrew

 

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