Grove City College offers business presentations

How to start a business and get the money to fund it are among the topics.

GROVE CITY, Pa. — The Grove City College Department of Entrepreneurship’s 2007-08 Visionary Entrepreneurship Speakers Series begins with four presentations in September.

All presentations are set for 7 p.m. in Sticht Lecture Hall in the Hall of Arts and Letters on campus and are open to the public.

Sept. 4: Babs Carryer, president and CEO of RemComm, Inc., a provider of radio-based emergency communication and data transfer, kicks off the series with “Invention to Customer: Charting the Path to Market.”

Carryer teaches entrepreneurship at Carnegie Mellon University’s Don Jones Center for Entrepreneurship and at CMU’s Heinz School. She also teaches entrepreneurial commercialization of new technologies at the University of Pittsburgh’s Office of Enterprise Development.

Sept. 12: Debra Dinnocenzo, president of VirtualWorks!, will present “Leadership in the Virtual Workplace.”

Dinnocenzo has expertise in virtual workplace issues including virtual leadership, virtual teams, telework and work-life balance.

Sept. 20: The Venture Capital Panel on how to find start-up funding features successful venture capitalists with experience in a variety of areas in the financial world. Panelists include: Mike Stubler, managing director of Draper Triangle Ventures and director and president of Pittsburgh Venture Capital Association; Tom Jones, managing partner and co-founder of Blue Tree Capital Group; Steve Robinson, general partner of Pittsburgh Equity Partners and managing general partner of Robinson Venture Partners; and Brian McGowan, senior client partner in global consumer markets with Korn/Ferry International’s Atlanta, Ga., office.

Sept. 26: Xela Bachelder, executive director, artistic director and founder of Rocket Venues, will speak about the start-up experience with social enterprise.

As a college undergraduate, Bachelder started Rocket Venues, an independent venue management organization that runs every summer during the world’s largest arts festival in the world in Edinburgh, Scotland.