The Business Benefits of Storytelling with All Raise

Rochester
Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 1:00 PM (EDT)

About this event

Public speaking and storytelling can have extremely powerful business outcomes. Between maximizing speaking and media opportunities, meeting new investors, partners, and hires, learning how to do it well will always be beneficial. These public speaking pros will cover:

- How to cut through the noise

- Best practices on finding the right opportunities

- Learning how to be comfortable and prepared in front of a crowd

- What the future of events looks like

- Why diverse representation is a must

* More speakers coming soon!*

Speakers

Pam Kostka

All Raise

CEO

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Elizabeth Yin

Hustle Fund

Co-founder + General Partner

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Pam Kostka

All Raise

Pam Kostka is the CEO of All Raise, a startup nonprofit on a mission to accelerate the success of female founders and funders to build a more prosperous, equitable future. Pam is a seasoned CEO with over 25 years of experience as a startup operator. Her specialties are defining go-to-market strategies and implementing operational processes that allow startups to effectively scale to successful exits. Most recently, she was CEO of Loop, a local community mobile app. Previously, she served as CEO of Bluebox Security, interim CEO and CMO at VirtuOz, SVP of Marketing and Sales for Sabrix, and CEO and Co-founder of Visiline, Inc. She has also held executive and senior marketing roles at software companies such as Arena Solutions, Connect, and Extensity.

Pam earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in economics, summa cum laude, from College of the Holy Cross, and her MBA from Harvard Business School. A lifelong cyclist, runner, and outdoor adventure seeker, she enjoys Bay Area trails with her husband, Yuri, and daughter, Rae.

Elizabeth Yin

Hustle Fund

Elizabeth Yin is a co-founder and General Partner at Hustle Fund, a pre-seed fund for software entrepreneurs. Previously, Elizabeth was a partner at 500 Startups where she invested in seed stage companies and ran the Mountain View accelerator. In a prior life, Elizabeth co-founded and ran an adtech company called LaunchBit (acq 2014). Elizabeth has a BSEE from Stanford and an MBA from MIT Sloan.