New England Venture Capital Association will continue Open Office Hours at Venture Café—New Dates June 10th and June 24th

In this guest blog post by Nancy Saucier, Executive Director of the New England Venture Capital Association, NEVCA announces renewing of the partnership with Venture Cafe to host Open Office Hours as part of the prototyping happening inside Cambridge Innovation Center each week.

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From Nancy:

With the positive feedback of and growing participation in NEVCA Open Office Hours, we’ve added a few more dates before the August vacation season and will continue through the fall every other week at the Venture Café.

But, we’re changing a few things to appeal to a broader entrepreneur audience. First, we’ll only be releasing the names of the VCs holding office hours a couple weeks in advance, so check back at the registration page frequently to see who has been added. Second, we’ll now start each session with an open discussion for everyone in the café and the two VCs ‘on-call’—a venture industry unplugged if you will. This is a great opportunity to meet not only the VCs, but your fellow entrepreneurs and get general questions about venture financing answered (and you know you’re not the only one with the same question—you’re just the person bold enough to ask).

After some general networking, the VCs will then each hold three one-on-one meetings to round out the afternoon.

You can choose to participate in all or just some of the afternoon activities (although if you’d like a one-on-one, we’d also like you to attend the general discussion from 3-4)

A couple of asks, please don’t hog one-on-one slots and when you request a slot, please be kind enough to submit a brief summary of your business. This simply helps the VCs know generally about your business so they can be more helpful when you meet.

So without further delay, registration can be found here. Registration for the open session is not required, but I would like to know you’re coming.

So the next office hours will be held on June 10th and June 24th from 3-6 PM.

On June 10th, Justin Perreault of Commonwealth Capital Ventures and Michael Brown from Battery Ventures will host office hours.

Justin has more than 15 years of venture capital and operating experience in information technology industries. He has particular interest in and experience with enterprise application, infrastructure software, and software as a service (SaaS) business models. More information about Justin and Commonwealth is available here.

Michael has made, or managed, multiple investments in the areas of financial services, enterprise software and technology-enabled business services. Michael currently serves on the board of ExactTarget, Fingerhut Direct Marketing, J. Hilburn, Panjiva, and TradeKing. In addition, he has been actively involved with Battery’s investments in ChemConnect (acquired by InterContinental Exchange), The London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (LIFFE) (acquired by Euronext), MRU Holdings, and OutlookSoft Corporation (acquired by SAP). There’s more information here.

On June 24th, Stephen McCormack Commonwealth Capital Ventures and Chris Sheehan of CommonAngels will be your hosts.

Steve is a co-founder of Commonwealth and has more than 20 years of venture capital and private equity experience. His investment activity has primarily been in early stage technology companies with an emphasis on communications/mobile and software platforms and tools. More information about Stephen and Commonwealth is available here.

Chris is a managing director of CommonAngels, joining the group in 2005, and is currently either a board member or observer at Carbonite, Outside the Classroom, Most Effective Media, Xconomy and GateRocket. Within CommonAngels, Chris manages deal flow, due diligence and the investment process. He also guides the group’s strategic direction and works closely with portfolio companies. He is also a managing director of the group’s two $10M venture funds. Here’s more information.

Your feedback on the structure and jeers always appreciated and I look forward to seeing you at the café.

– Nancy Saucier, Executive Director, NEVCA