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"Upstart Ventures helped me finalize my business plan, negotiate with investors and put systems and processes in place to help take the business to a new level. Last year our business grew 12x."
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Liz Hamburg is a "serial entrepreneur" with extensive experience as an entrepreneur, angel investor and mentor to entrepreneurs and small businesses. She is the founder and President of Upstart Ventures, where she has consulted to and incubated many start-ups including her latest venture, ApplyWise, an online college admissions counseling company.
Liz was Chairman and Founder of Hypnotic, a broadband content and branded entertainment company and was one of the founding managers and Director of the Board of Vimpel Communications (NYSE:VIP), the leading cellular company in Russia.
She has launched new products for Reuters Tokyo and Fujisankei Communications, one of Japan's largest media conglomerates, where she worked on the first international television home shopping show and played a leading role in the introduction of Fuji's Nintendo game software into the U.S.
Upstart Ventures works with a team of industry experts who are available to lend their expertise to advisory boards, business planning and interim management.
Liz is the co-host on WOR radio (WOR 710AM) of "New York Uncovered" and "Launchpad", a weekly radio segment focusing on entrepreneurs and small business. She also blogs about small business for the Huffington Post. She is New York's 2009 SBA Small Business Journalist of the Year.
Liz received an MBA from Northwestern's Kellogg Graduate School of Management and a B.A. from Brown University. She is a Director of the Board of Safe Space, a New York based non-profit; the President of the Advisory Board of the Brown University Entrepreneurs Program, a member of the New York advisory board of Astia and a member of the Advisory Panel of the Columbia Business School's Eugene Lang Entrepreneur Initiative Fund. She is a frequent lecturer on topics concerning entrepreneurs and women-owned businesses.