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• Boston Fintech Week!

  • Boston Fintech Week October 10-13, 2013 is a must-attend annual event for the global fintech community. This year, the theme is On the Brink: Building the Infrastructure We Need for a Bold Financial Future. Event organizer Fintech Sandbox will bring the fintech ecosystem together at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston for a 2-day conference Oct 11 & 12 to discuss how new pathways for products, services and new distribution channels are - or maybe are not - ushering in the golden age of financial services. Register here.

  • for who: Fintech founders, entrepreneurs, investors, payments nerds, financial service providers, etc.

  • hosted by: FinTech Sandbox, Boston FinTech Week, & Emily O'Connor

Z List IRL hosted by Zehra

monday 9/25

• The Z List & Carta: Fundraising Fundamentals — waitlist

  • for who: investors, founders, operators

  • This session will focus on starting your own fund and feature a stellar line up of speakers who have gone from founder to Founding GP or angel investor to VC/GP. Can’t wait!

  • The Z List & Carta are back for round two of our fundraising fundamentals series.

thursday 9/28

• API Consumer Demo Day (A.F. x Meta Prosper)

  • for who: investors

  • hosed by: Asian Founded

thursday 10/12

• The Z List & Carta: Fundraising Fundamentals — waitlist

  • for who: investors, founders, operators

  • This session will focus on how to get into competitive deals from the POV of angel investors, analysts, and GPs

  • The Z List & Carta are back for round three of our fundraising fundamentals series.

hosting an event with a $2.6 billion silicon valley based fund in early October. This will be there first major NYC event. If you’re in AI & based in NYC sign up for the waitlist here.

NY Tech Week Events (list goes public to 45,000 people tomorrow - sign up now!)

monday 10/16

• For the Girls: NY #TechWeek Founder & Funder Breakfast

  • for who: femme founders & investors

• The Consumer Council: NY #TechWeek

  • for who: consumer (tech & cpg) founders, investors, & operators

  • we have an INCREDIBLE venue locked in for this event. you’ll have the chance to shop some awesome CPG brands and collect consumer tech/social brand swag :)

  • hosted by: Zehra & Nate 

tuesday 10/17

Join us for a panel with Turner Novak (VC), Nichole Wischoff (VC), Nikita Bier (2 exits) & Ankur Nagpal (1 exit) all about founding, investing, and going viral. You will not want to miss this! Link below.

• Founding, Investing, & Going Viral: NY #TechWeek

  • for who: founders, investors, operators

  • hosted by: Zehra & Ocho (Jaiya)

• Pitch & Walk: NY #TechWeek

  • for who: founders & investors (operators welcome too!)

wednesday 10/18

• Vision Boarding: NY #TechWeek

  • for who: founders, investors, operators — anyone who wants to take a mental break from happy hours, breakfasts, & networking to do something creative in the middle of the day

• Fun & FinTech & Litquidity NY #TechWeek

  • for who: founders & investors in FinTech

  • hosted by: Litquidity, Zehra, Osiris (Jonathan), Picus 

thursday 10/19

• No GPs Allowed: NY #TechWeek

  • for who: full-time VC analysts, associates, VPs, principals, anything but a GP (sorry)

  • hosted by: Zehra 

friday 10/20

• Color Me Mine: NY #TechWeek

  • for who: founders & investors — taking a small group of founders & investors to color me mine to do something creative and destress as NY Tech Week winds down

• Angel Investors & Venture Scouts Social: NY #TechWeek

  • for who: angel investors & venture scouts

  • hosted by: Zehra & Jack 

Resources — a lot of folks reach out to me for recommendations of engineers, website devs, designers, & more. This new section of The Z List will feature recommendations from folks I’ve worked with.

• Need a graphic designer? Alisha is the best — I’ve worked with her for my own branding and more (soon to be revealed). Fill out the form to work with her.

• Need a website developer? Tamir is amazing and has been working with me on The Z List’s website. Fill out the form to work with him.

I wanted to briefly reintroduce myself for my new subscribers and to answer the question why trust me?

Hi! I’m Zehra - Head of Founder Community at Republic & Angel Investor. I’ve been hosting events in NYC since 2017 and:

• 15,000 different people have RSVP’d for my events in the last 1 year (in NYC alone)

• My events have a 95% approval rating

• I am Singaporean & Pakistani Muslim and grew up in Hong Kong for most of my life in Hong Kong. I value diversity across all boards and that shows in all of my events.

• I root all my events in hyper-efficiency (we’re in NYC I and like to move quickly) and place a heavy emphasis on curation

• My educational panels have secured folks jobs at top VC funds (like Primary, most recently)

• When I moderate panels, I read, watch, and listen to every interview the panelists have done and only ask them new questions. What you’ll learn at my educational events is not Googleable.

• I’m a 2x founder (one succeeded (profitability), one failed): I’ve been in your shoes

• I love being an operator; I worked at 14 startups while in undergrad

Besties' Events & Projects

a reminder on the below section! i only feature events when I've been to at minimum three of host's/organizer's past events and had a good time. no other events get featured unless they are sponsored (indicated).

friday 9/22

• Panel Discussion: Is Entrepreneurship the right career choice for you?

  • for who: founders & aspiring founders

  • hosted by: Women in Tech

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