6:30 PM – 8:00 PM | RRH 225

Interested in starting a new restaurant? Come check out this panel of spirited restaurant entrepreneurs from all over the state of Virginia as they share their unique experiences on starting a restaurant, sustaining their brand, and dealing with competition. Everything from what goes into hiring your first employee to changing your menu! From 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM, each speaker will give a brief talk. The event will be followed by food (pasta, tacos, and oyster bisque) from the speakers’ respective restaurants! Get excited.

Giuseppe Scafidi of Deco Ristorante

Location: Richmond, Virginia

Food to taste: Pasta

Deco Ristorante is a Sicilian restaurant. Giuseppe Scafidi, the Chef & Owner, spent 20+ years studying in Sicily, both in the classroom and in the kitchens of his aunts and grandmothers. His recipes are taken from years of complex Sicilian tradition, with a bite of history in every dish. The menu is comprised of Sicilian Fresh Food, Salads and Antipasti, and entrees that include past dishes, veal, chicken, and a fresh fish of the day.

Tom McFarlane of Two Guys Tacos

Location: Charlottesville, Virginia

Food to taste: Tacos

Two Guys Tacos is a new restaurant located on the Corner of 14th Street and University Avenue. Tom McFarlane is excited to talk about starting a new restaurant and how their brand can compete with more established Mexican food chains, like Qdoba and Chipotle down the road.

Bill Dillon of Abbey Road Pub & Restaurant

Location: Virginia Beach, Virginia

Food to taste: Rockefeller Oyster Bisque

This past December, Abbey Road celebrated it’s 30th anniversary under Bill’s direction. Abbey Road serves fresh seafood, homed soups, and hand cut stakes and has one of the largest selections of domestic and imported beers in the state of Virginia with 101 varieties. Bill is active in trade associations and has served on the board of directors of the Virginia Beach Restaurant Association since 1984 and on the statewide Virginia Restaurant Association (VRA) since 1985.

Here is the link to the Facebook event, be sure to click attending and share with friends!

1:30 PM – 2:15 PM | Para Coffee

Innovate together. A new initiative launched this semester, Brewin’ Creativity is a weekly coffee chat held every Friday. Watch a short TED talk or interview with an entrepreneur, share ideas, meet other EG members, and enjoy a free coffee of your choice from Para sponsored by the Galant Center for Entrepreneurship.

Sign up for this week’s coffee chat here. This week’s theme will focus on Design Thinking and will be facilitated by EG officers Alex Mohr and Uzair Minhas. Participants will meet at Para Coffee and then gravitate to HackCville for viewing & discussion.

This week’s discussion will revolve around Tim Brown’s TED Talk urging designers to think big (not necessary to watch beforehand). Tim Brown says the design profession has a bigger role to play than just creating nifty, fashionable little objects. He calls for a shift to local, collaborative, participatory “design thinking” — starting with the example of 19th century design thinker Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Tom Brown is the CEO of the “innovation and design firm IDEO — taking an approach to design that digs deeper than the surface.

A couple key details:

- You may attend as many coffee chats as you wish throughout the semester (yes, it’s true. Free Para on Fridays). However, only one will count towards your membership attendance.

- Coffee chats will be capped at 5 members and 2 officers. The first five members to sign up will be able to attend that week’s coffee chat, so sign up fast! You will be notified on Thursday morning by an EG officer with confirmation of attendance.

- Have class at the time of the event or not interested in this week’s topic? No worries! Each week, we will introduce new themes all centered around innovation and rotate times.

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM | OpenGrounds

Think you have it takes to innovate on the spot? Come to Entrepreneurship with Friends and see what we can all put together. EG members and other participants will be divided into groups of 4-5 students in this social brainstorming event. Each group will rotate around the studio, thinking critically about problems, solutions, and implementation plans for new product ideas in various industries. There will also be a short presentation on how to design your own Business Model Canvas.

Come help crush the status quo with other EG members in what proves to be an exciting new event and networking mixer! Hors d’oeuvres will be served. This will count as the first active event of the semester.

For those of you who have never been to the OpenGrounds studio, it is on the Corner across from the White Spot. Click here for a map and directions.

Here is the link to the Facebook event, be sure to click attending and share with friends!

7:00 PM – 8:30 PM | Rice Hall

Enter to present your business, app, or invention idea in 60 seconds. Share your idea with engineering and commerce students, get useful feedback from a panel of experts, and get a chance to win $200 in cash!

Sign up to pitch at egmvirginia.com/pitch by Tuesday, November 13th, at 9:00 PM.

Judging panel for Elevator Pitch Competition:

• Dean Johnson: Angel Investor, CEO of Rimm Kaufmann Group
• Joel Selzer: Founder of Ozmosis, Founder of Medical Funding Services
• Kirt Gunn: CMO of Rimm Kaufmann Group, Founder of Dandelion Marketing Agency
• Bryan Kannry: Principal at Court Square Ventures, VP Business Development @ MusicToday (acquired by LiveNation)
• Brendan Richardson: VC + Private Equity Consultant, Interim CEO at PsiKick Semiconductors, McIntire Professor

Don’t have an idea? Come to see others present and network with upcoming student entrepreneurs. Hors d’oeuvres will be provided.

7:00 PM – 8:00 PM | RRH 227 

Do you have an innovative idea for a retail business? At EDENS we want to discover the best new retail ideas from the brightest students. This year we are sponsoring the inaugural EDENS Retail Challenge — in conjunction with smART: The Art of Retail — inviting the best young entrepreneurs to pitch us their ideas. What store have you always wanted to open? Now is your chance to present an innovative new retail concept to a panel of industry leaders and compete for a chance to bring your retail vision to life.

An EDENS representative will be at UVA on Monday, November 12th, to conduct an information session for interested students. Student teams from all over the country will submit business plans, no more than 15 pages, for their proposed retail concept, by December 1st. Top prize is $10,000! Please look over the competition details at www.EDENSsmARTretail.com/challenge and bring your questions to the information session.

RRH 254 | 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Interested in developing your leadership skills? The Google Student Leadership Lab will bring student leaders together at Google with four main goals:

• Discover how differences in communication styles affect group dynamics and effectiveness
• Develop strategies for building an effective team
• Learn innovative creative problem-solving skills to take back to your startup projects
• Understand how these skills apply at a company like Google

You will have an opportunity to participate in two hands-on workshops and take classes that Google employees take. This event will be capped at 40 students and is only open to active members of the Entrepreneurship Group at McIntire. Please sign up here, and look out for a confirmation email from an EGM officer next week.

RRH 227 | 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM

The UVa Entrepreneurship Cup is a business-concept competition open to all U.Va. undergraduates, graduate students, and post-doctoral fellows. A registered activity of Global Entrepreneurship Week, this annual competition seeks to enrich the area’s entrepreneurial community by supporting the development of new ventures.

The competition is broken down into 8 separate tracks. Professor Brendan Richardson and EGM exec will be filling you in on the details of how to apply to the McIntire preliminary concept competition (i.e. pre-event workshops, eligibility requirements, contest prizes, judging). Followed by Q&A from the audience.

RRH 223 | 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM

Rob Daley (Comm ’92) has hosted McIntire’s M.S. in Commerce students in Guangzhou for the past three years, and he is an outstanding speaker with a compelling entrepreneurial story that involves both global value chain topics as well as a successful startup and growth story.

Rob, CEO of 4moms / Thorley Industries, has built and grown a consumer products company in the ‘juvenile products’ sector (strollers, car seats, etc.). He will bring some products along for demonstration, both mechanical engineering and consumer features. On Wednesday, he will spend an hour telling his entrepreneurial story, current business (sales, strategy, marketing, operations), and future plans. Please check out 4moms before the event. Pizza and drinks will be served.

OpenGrounds | 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM

5:30 PM: Michael Prichard, Founder and CTO at WillowTree Apps, will share his experience finding the right co-founder and building a team. WillowTree Apps has grown to be one of the largest and most respected mobile development companies in the US, with its entire 25+ person team located in Charlottesville, Virginia.

6 PM: Want to get involved in student and area start-ups? We’re calling on programmers, hustlers, designers, and anyone with the grit and passion for building exciting new ventures. Seats are limited to the first 25! You will meet 10 teams looking for “dates” in fast pitch 3 minute rounds. Need help on your billion dollar idea? Apply for one of the 10 slots for the chance to meet your match. Speed Dating starts on the dot and lasts for one hour followed by hookups till 7:00 PM. Co-sponsored by HackCville, E*Society, and OpenGrounds.

For projects that need help: Application.

For singles looking for projects: Registration.

RRH TBA | 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM

Share your business idea, ask questions, get feedback and suggestions from members of the Entrepreneurship Group in a comfortable and informal setting. Network with fellow students and get a chance to share ideas amongst each other. There are no requirements, such as using a powerpoint or having a certain type of presentation. You can simply just talk about your idea to everyone. If you do not have an idea, you are encouraged to still attend to share your advice and connect with people who do have an idea. Pizza and drinks will be served.

NDA (Non-Disclosure agreements) will be signed by every person attending to prevent confusion about intellectual property rights. Please sign up to present HERE (deadline: Sunday, September 9th, at 11:59 PM). This will count as an active event for EGM membership attendance.