Past Achievements

To date, the PrincetonEN's focus has been to build a following around a shared vision: to facilitate the founding, funding, development, and servicing of entrepreneurial and other rapid-growth companies. We have accomplished this goal through the following:

• A National Conference held each May. The 2002 conference attracted more than 200 entrepreneurs, investors, and professional-services providers. The program is available on our website - www.PrincetonEN.org.
• Regional Chapters in New York, Boston, Washington, Chicago, Denver, and San Francisco hold quarterly events that offer networking opportunities as well as educational content.
• A website (www.PrincetonEN.org) that announces PrincetonEN's regional events, provides links to other entrepreneurial information, and offers articles on relevant topics.
• An email listserv with over 1,000 participants that provides an online forum for participants to exchange ideas and ask questions.

PrincetonEN is actively building on its successes as more people join the network and participate in our activities. Currently, we are pursuing the following initiatives:

• New Regional Chapters: We are expanding PrincetonEN's formal presence into Los Angeles, Atlanta, Seattle, and Montreal.
• National Conference: PrincetonEN's Fourth Annual Conference will enhance its traditional format of keynote addresses, panel discussions, and networking to include a job and internship fair.
• Web site with enhanced functionality and hosted at a professional hosting company: PrincetonEN's new site (scheduled for launch in February 2003) will be an ever more useful resource for our constituency. Some of the new features will include:
  • Directory of promising entrepreneurial companies
  • Job postings
  • Mentor matching database
  • Resume listings
  • Searchable directory of PrincetonEN participants

Our accomplishments to date have been achieved on a modest budget with the support of a small number of loyal sponsors. Having delivered obvious benefit to the community of entrepreneurs, both within and outside the ranks of Princetonians, we realize how much more is possible. The future is exciting, but we need your help to fulfill the promise. With proper funding, PrincetonEN could benefit its constituency in additional ways, including:

• Joint events and mailings: Our service to the community of entrepreneurs could be enhanced by coordinating and making common cause with such entrepreneur organizations as the MIT Enterprise Forum, Stanford University, and others that have a national or strong regional presence. Our goal is to expand our reach, through other groups, to over 5000 new contacts.
• Student sponsorship: PrincetonEN would like to integrate more closely with the Princeton students' Entrepreneurs Club by helping them find summer internships, find entrepreneurial careers upon graduation, connect their business plans and ideas with funding sources, and promote on-campus business-plan contests and similar events.
• Additional Regional Chapters:PrincetonEN will be expanding to entrepreneurial areas like Research Triangle Park, Austin or Dallas, San Diego, Minneapolis, and Miami.

Through our annual conference, regional events, web site, and email groups, sponsors have potential exposure to 70,000 alumni/ae, some 18,000 of whom attend reunions (which are held on the same weekend as our annual conference) and 14,000 of whom participate in Princeton email groups. The Princeton Entrepreneurs' Network offers four levels of sponsorship, with commitment levels ranging from $1,000 to $10,000. The benefits of each level are:

• Your company will be listed as a sponsor of PrincetonEN and its Annual Conference on all materials used to market and publicize the PrincetonEN organization and activities (including web site, press releases, and the publicity materials and program for the Annual Conference).
• Your company's name will appear on the front cover of the Annual Conference program.
• Your company will have a 1/4-page advertisement inside the Annual Conference program.
• Complimentary registration at the Annual Conference for one of your employees. (including lunch and the cocktail / networking party)
• Your company will have the opportunity to display and distribute promotional materials at the Annual Conference.
• Your company's name and logo (with link to your website) will appear on our web site.
• Your company's name and sponsorship role will be recognized in the opening remarks at the Annual Conference as well as at events held by Regional Chapters of the PrincetonEN.

All the benefits of Bronze sponsorship PLUS...

• Your company will have a 1/2-page advertisement inside the Annual Conference program.
• Complimentary registration at the Annual Conference for two of your employees.

All the benefits of Silver sponsorship PLUS...

• Your company's name will appear in the center of the front cover of the Annual Conference program.
• Your company will have a full-page advertisement inside the Annual Conference program.
• Complimentary registration at the Annual Conference for up to three of your employees.
• Your company's name and logo (with link to your website) will appear on our web site's home page.

All the benefits of Gold sponsorship PLUS...

• Your company will be featured as the lead sponsor of PrincetonEN and primary sponsor of the PrincetonEN Annual Conference on all materials used to market and publicize the PrincetonEN organization and activities (including web site, press releases, and the publicity materials and program for the PrincetonEN Annual Conference.
• Your company's name will appear in bold-face type in the center of the front cover of the Annual Conference program.
• Your company will have a full-page advertisement on the back cover of the PrincetonEN Annual Conference program.
• Complimentary registration at the Annual Conference for up to four of your employees.
• Your company's name and logo (with link to your website) will have prominent placement on our web site's home page.

Additional, customized sponsorship opportunities are available. To discuss how to maximize your exposure or for further information, please contact Bruce Jackson, PrincetonEN Director and 2003 Sponsorship Chairman (bcj@carvercross.com; tel 212-292-7801). Please also visit www.PrincetonEN.org/sponsors.php.