Upstream Events: Ashley Mayer from Glossier, Jonathan Abrams and Kent Lindstrom from 8-Bit Capital, Natasha Mascarenhas from TechCrunch, & more!
Hey all -
Love a four-day week! This one is action-packed. Let’s get started.
The Serial Marketers community is hosting a themed week of events and content around Esports and Gaming, kicking off February 22, 2021. You can join any of their amazing panels, breakouts, and office hours — link to sign up here! H/t David Berkowitz and Zachary Rozga for putting this together.
Win of the Week: Has Upstream helped you professionally? Share your Upstream win with Alex/Sarah to get featured! We’ll pick one a week to spotlight. (Examples include: hiring, fundraising, a great intro, a new modern friend)
From tweet to thriving Digital Health Community host, we’re celebrating Dr. Mala Mawkin who joined Upstream from a tweet a few weeks back and hosted her first event last week with 20 attendees. We’re proud to say that to-date, the Upstream community has been built completely by word-of-mouth. We wouldn’t be here without each of you spreading the word and we couldn’t be more thankful for you.
New Feature Alert: In-event Q&A
We love seeing how Upstream events are used creatively by our community. The Q&A interview format is a community favorite and we’ve designed a feature to help make audience questions easier to read and not get lost in the chat feed. Grateful for the input that made this feature come to life!
THIS WEEK’S EVENTS ROUND-UP
Reminder: Open the links below from your phone.
TUESDAY the 16th
Evening: 5pm — 8pm EST
- Pitch Night #10 with Impulse at 6pm ET
- Investor Series #25 with Moshe Lifschitz — Investor at Shrug Capital at 7pm ET
WEDNESDAY the 17th
Afternoon: 12pm — 5pm EST
- Creating Traction in Early Stage Fundraising with Andrew Gluck at 3pm ET
- Fin-Tech Series #1 w/ Thomas Rush, Head of Platform at ConsenSys at 3pm ET
- Future of Work VC Series #4 with Jonathan Abrams, GP of 8-Bit Capital and Founder of Friendster at 5pm ET
Evening: 5pm — 8pm EST
- Sports Business Event #16 with Deepen Parikh — Partner at Courtside Ventures at 6pm ET
- Jews In Tech Connect #15 at 7pm ET
- Angel Investing 101 with Sheel Mohnot — General Partner at Better Tomorrow Ventures at 8pm ET
THURSDAY the 18th
Morning: 8am — 12pm EST
Afternoon: 12pm — 5pm EST
- Serial Marketers SpeedUp #16 at 12pm ET
- Executive Spotlight III — Salim Holder, CEO & Co-Founder, 4th Ave Market at 1pm ET
- Winning in Georgia runoffs, Ads for social good, and future of cause marketing with Philipp Tsipman, CEO of Outfox AI at 2pm ET
- Founder / Investor Meetup with Anna Whiteman — VP at Coefficient Capital at 4pm ET
Evening: 5pm — 9pm EST
- Comms for startups vs venture vs establish company with Ashley Mayer — Senior Director, Communications at Glossier at 6pm ET
- Exponential: Brand Partnerships with Armand Khatri of Pinterest at 6pm ET
- Active Investor #22: Emerging Managers with Elizabeth Galbut SoGal Ventures / Kate Brodock W Fund at 7pm ET
- LA Female Founder Series #3: Christine Outram, CEO of Everydae at 8pm ET
- Joy Soldier Meet-Up #5 at 8pm ET
- Upstream Duo Event with Jonathan Abrams and Kent Lindstrom from 8-Bit Capital at 8pm ET
Friday the 19th
Morning: 8am — 12pm EST
Afternoon: 12pm — 5pm EST
- Upstream Social #51 with Natasha Mascarenhas — Reporter at TechCrunch at 3pm ET
- NY Startup Community w/ Kunal Mehta, Principal at Hearst Ventures at 4pm ET
Notable Upcoming
- Digital Health #2 — Mental Health with Sheena Pirbhai — Founder/CEO at Stress Point Health on 2/23 at 12:30pm ET
- Tech Tuesdays #BlackTechHeroes on 2/23 at 3:30pm ET
- Healthcare Community Social on 2/23 at 5pm ET
- Pitch Night #11 with Plerk on 2/23 at 7pm ET
- Investor Series #26 with Alana Mann from Cultivation Capital on 2/23 at 8pm ET
- Future of Work Ideathon Celebrating Black History Month with Marie Roker-Jones, Co-founder of Essteem on 2/24 at 1pm ET
- Book Club #2: No Filter by Sarah Frier with Sarah Frier on 2/24 at 6pm ET
- BD / Partnerships Social #21 with Andrew Steinthal — Co-Founder & Chief Partnerships Officer at The Infatuation & Zagat on 2/24 at 7pm ET
- Community Community Lunch #3 on 2/25 at 12pm ET
- Serial Marketers Esports & Gaming SpeedUp on 2/25 at 12pm ET
- PR Pros Networking XV — with special guest host Natan Edelsburg, COO of Muck Rack on 2/24 at 12:30pm ET
- Upstream Social #52 on 2/25 at 3pm ET
THIS WEEK’S OFFICE HOURS
Reminder: Open the links below from your phone.
TUESDAY the 16th
Morning: 8am — 12pm EST
- Kyle Rezac-Dennis — Founder at White Elephant at 10am ET
- Dom Tancredi — CEO at Dom & Tom at 11am ET
- Sarah Wood — Head of Growth & Community at Upstream at 11am ET
Afternoon: 12pm — 5pm EST
- Neal Conlon — Entrepreneur Coach at 1pm ET
- Paul Sethi — Managing Partner at 2048 Ventures at 2pm ET
- Eric Broad — CEO at Bowery Legal at 2pm ET
- Alon Cohen — Founder at Pika Diapers at 2pm ET
- David Logan — Managing Director at Umergence at 3pm ET
- Dave Weinberg — Partnership Recruiting at Gently Ventures at 4pm ET
Evening: 5pm — 8pm EST
WEDNESDAY the 17th
Morning: 8am — 12pm EST
- Eric Friedman — Fractional COO at BuildingTheMachine.com at 9am ET
- Shanna McEachern — Director of Operations at Alpaca Technology at 9am ET
- David Cutler — Founder at David Cutler Network at 10am ET
- Scott Rosenbluth — CEO at Craze Management at 10am ET
- Jennifer Dagi — Relationship Blogger / Coach at 10am ET
- Kyle Rezac-Dennis — Founder at White Elephant at 10am ET
- Dan Shek — Principal at Financialese at 11am ET
- Hanan Eldahry — CEO at HotHoods at 11am ET
- Alexandria Pugia — Software Developer at Upstream at 11am ET
- Ari Greenberg — Strategic Partnerships Leader at 11am ET
- Dhanush Ram — Associate at Speciale Invest at 11:30am ET
Afternoon: 12pm — 5pm EST
- Kine Paulsen — Partner at kinfizz at 12pm ET
- Greg Baroth — Social/Digital Consultant at 12pm ET
- Steve Gowa — Sales Enablement at Forcemultiply at 12pm ET
- Leo Morejon — Marketing at Applegate at 1pm ET
- Chris Johnston — Product Designer at The SilverLogic at 1:30pm ET
- Max Zamkow — Partner at Third Act Ventures at 2pm ET
- Ryan De Souza — Investor at Scrum Ventures at 2pm ET
- Sarah Wood — Head of Growth & Community at Upstream at 2pm ET
- Mike Gelb — Founder at The Consumer VC at 2:30pm ET
- Oren Kozlowski — VC Principal at Founders Factory NY at 2:30pm ET
- Mat Kaliski — Principal at Acronym Venture Capital at 3pm ET
- Mark Wang — Patent Attorney at 3pm ET
- Teddy Seem — Partner at Outsiders Fund at 3:30pm ET
- Shira Goldetsky — CEO at Sapient Search at 3:30pm ET
Evening: 5pm — 11:30pm EST
- Douglas Govindavajhala — Senior Software Engineer at 6pm ET
- Henry Chi — Investor at Capital Innovators at 8pm ET
- Ron Schwartz — CEO at TechHub Limited at 9pm ET
- Chris Moreno — VP, National Partnerships at Luxer One at 9:30pm ET
- Josh Hone — COO at Column at 11:30pm ET
THURSDAY the 18th
Morning: 8am — 12pm EST
- Jason Kramer — Founder at Cultivize at 10am ET
- Paris Morris — Customer Advocacy Marketing at Salesforce at 11am ET
- Adam Gelles — CEO at The B2B Marketing Co at 11am ET
Afternoon: 12pm — 5pm EST
- Kerry Flynn — Reporter at CNN at 12pm ET
- David Berkowitz — Founder at Serial Marketers at 12:30pm ET
- Geoff Scott — CEO/CTO Coach at 1pm ET
- Matt Jessen-Howard — Partner at Noveus Capital at 2pm ET
- Ben Pulver — Head of BizOps at Banyan at 2pm ET
- Andrew McCarley — Senior Consultant at Peabody Aerospace at 3pm ET
- Dave Mekelburg — Head of People + Chief of Staff at Wade & Wendy at 3:30pm ET
Evening: 5pm — 8pm EST
- Chaim Haas — Head of Innovation Communication at Bloomberg at 6:30pm ET
- Nick Jaber — Head of Growth at NeoEYED at 6:40pm ET
- Victor Echevarria — Partner at Jackson Square Ventures at 7pm ET
FRIDAY the 19th
Morning: 12am — 12pm EST
- Selin Dal — Human Resources Business Partner at 2:25pm ET
- Niklas Koster — Investment Analyst at SellerX at 4am ET
- Chelsea Ferrette — Venture Attorney at 10am ET
- Stav Pischits — Co-founder at Cynance at 10am ET
- Jaimin Desai — Founder at Reconcile at 11am ET
- Dave Weinberg — Partnership Recruiting at Gently Ventures at 11am ET
- Scott Rosenbluth — CEO at Craze Management at 11am ET
- Mark Kahn — Senior Attorney at PAG at 11am ET
Afternoon: 12pm — 5pm EST
- Steve Gowa — Sales Enablement at Forcemultiply at 12pm ET
- Kurt Benson — CEO/Founder at Tidal League at 12pm ET
- Neal Conlon — Entrepreneurship Coach at 12pm ET
- Alex Taub — Co-founder at Upstream at 1pm ET
- Geoff Cook — Co-founder/CEO at The Meet Group at 1pm ET
- Kine Paulsen — Partner at kinfizz at 2pm ET
- Priyanka Somrah — Analyst at Work-Bench at 3pm ET
- Sarah Alister — Business Development Intern at Upstream at 3pm ET
- Michael Galluppo — Founder at OLY.AI at 4:30pm ET
Evening: 5pm — 8pm EST
SATURDAY the 20th
Morning: 8am — 12pm EST
- Alexander Golding — MBA at George Washington University at 11am ET
- Charmaine Waldrop — Partner at TSC Partners at 12pm ET
Afternoon: 12pm — 5pm EST
- Carey Ransom — President at Operate at 12pm ET
- Abhishek Sharma — Technical Program Manager at Pure Storage at 3pm ET
- Marvin Winans Jr. CEO at Paid Technologies at 4pm ET
- Ali Jamal — Founding Partner at First Check Ventures at 5pm ET
Evening: 5pm — 8pm EST
If you have any friends you think might like the events above, share the link with them so they can RSVP and join!
Can’t wait to see you at an event!
Alex
