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    20 April 2009
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  • Table of contents:

    1. Member Updates
    2. Coming Up in BASES
    3. Featured BASES Events
    4. Featured Bay Area Events
    5. Acknowledgements & Event Submission

  • 1. Member Updates

    ** Student Entrepreneurs - look out for the California Entrepreneurial Summit coming up on the 22nd. Visit: http://summit.sfsu-eship.org/
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    ** Interested in non-profits? How about CS? Then you should definitely check out the Social Profit Foundation which sponsors the Peter Thiel Fellowship Program. The program hopes to create the world's most relevant network of engineers creating social value on a massive scale.
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    ** Are you interested in clean technologies? Do you have an invention or idea that you would like to bring to the market? Would you like to meet other clean tech entrepreneurs? Then enter the California Clean Tech Open! http://www.cleantechopen.com

  • 2. Coming Up in BASES

    Monday, April 20th:
    > European Entrepreneurship & Innovation Thought Leaders Seminar
    > UC BERKELEY-HAAS: Entrepreneurial Best Practices Series
    > SDForum STARTUP & MARKETING SIGS: Strategic Pricing for Start-ups, New Products, & Innovations

    Tuesday, April 21st:
    > Angel and Venture Investing - Cleantech
    > MIT/STANFORD VLAB: The New Stimulus Package--What Does it Mean for the Valley?

    Wednesday, April 22nd:
    > Coaches on Call: Heather Gates-Massoudi - Deloitte Servicess
    > 2009 Entrepreneurial Student Summit
    > ETL Seminar featuring: Sheryl Sandberg - COO, Facebook

    Friday, April 24th:
    > SKMurphy: Bootstrappers Breakfast

    Saturday, April 25th:
    > SWIB Presents: "I Don't Know to CEO: Inspiration at Every Milestone"

  • 3. Featured BASES Events

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    Monday, April 20
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    European Entrepreneurship & Innovation Thought Leaders Seminar
    4:15PM to 5:30PM ~ Skilling Auditorium
    Stanford University

    This Week's Topic: European Universities and Researchers as Sources of Innovation in Finland, Italy & Silicon Valley

    This Week's Speakers:
    * Petri Martikainen, CEO, Multitouch (displays); Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (HIIT)
    * Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, Co-founder, Cadence and Synopsys; Professor, EECS Dept, UC Berkeley (semiconductor design)

    Stanford University's European Entrepreneurship and Innovation Thought Leaders Seminar is a weekly speaker series that presents industry leaders from Europe's hitech startup, venture finance, corporate and university research and technology commercialization communities to share their insights and experiences with aspiring and veteran entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley.


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    Monday, April 20
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    MIT/STANFORD VLAB: The New Stimulus Package--What Does it Mean for the Valley?
    6:00PM to 8:30PM ~ Graduate School of Business
    Stanford University

    The MIT/Stanford Venture Lab (VLAB) is the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the MIT Enterprise Forum, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the growth and success of high-tech entrepreneurial ventures by connecting ideas, technology and people. We provide a forum for entrepreneurs, industry experts, venture capitalists, private investors and technologists to exchange insights about how to effectively grow high-tech ventures amidst increasing market risks and challenges. In a world where markets change at breakneck speed, knowledge is a critical source of competitive advantage. Our events provide an excellent opportunity to network and learn about pivotal business issues, emerging industries and latest technologies.


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    Wednesday, April 22
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    ETL Seminar featuring: Sheryl Sandberg - COO, Facebook
    4:30PM to 5:30PM ~ Skilling Auditorium
    Stanford University

    Sheryl Sandberg graduated in 1991 from Harvard College, and worked under Lawrence Summers at the World Bank. She later earned her MBA from Harvard Business School in 1995 and worked at McKinsey & Co. as a management consultant. Sandberg then served as chief of staff to Secretary of the Treasury Lawrence Summers from 1999 to 2001. Turning down several investment bank offers, she joined Google in 2000. She was included in Fortune's 50 Most Powerful Women of 2007 and, at the age of 38, had the distinction of being the youngest on the list. In March 2008 she left Google Inc. to become Facebook's COO.

    Don’t forget about the scheduled dinner that will follow the presentation! Enrolled Stanford Students are encouraged to apply at http://etl.stanford.edu/dinners/form.shtml

    Stanford University's Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Seminar is a weekly speaker series in which innovation leaders from the fields of business, finance, technology, education, and philanthropy, share their insights with aspiring entrepreneurs from all over the world.


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    Wednesday, April 22
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    Coaches-on-Call: Heather Gates-Massoudi - Deloitte Services
    2:00PM to 4:00PM ~ Terman Engineering Center, Room 419
    Stanford University

    Heather’s primary focus is building venture capital relationships, working with venture capital funds and their portfolio companies to provide innovative service offerings and quality professional services. She frequently speaks on market trends, business issues facing entreprenuers, and other hot topics. She is a leader in the firm’s National and local women’s initiative.

    Before joining Deloitte Services, Heather was a Chief Financial Officer at a telecommunications software company. She wrote the business plan, led financing discussions, led operations and participated and all aspects of management of the Company. Prior to that, she was Vice President of Business Development at a venture-backed software and services company. While there, she successfully closed and managed relationships with large consulting firms including IBM Global Services. She was an investment banker at Hambrecht & Quist (now part of JP Morgan) in the software and internet industry group executing on initial public offerings, private placements, mergers and acquisitions, and private equity investment opportunities. She previously spent nine years as an audit professional at another Big 4 firm serving the technology sector. Heather has worked on numerous IPOs and other security offerings and has also served an as the key audit relationship for companies in the venture capital and technology, media and telecommunications industries.

    To register, please select a meeting time online and send an email to Belen (belen@stanford.edu) with a short write-up as to why you want to see the coach.

    http://sentest.stanford.edu/coaches_overview


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    Saturday, April 25
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    SWIB Presents: "I Don't Know to CEO: Inspiration at Every Milestone"
    9:30AM to 3:30PM ~ Annenberg (Cummings Art Building)
    Stanford University

    Stanford Women in Business (SWIB) is excited to present “I Don’t Know to CEO: Inspiration at Every Milestone” on Saturday April 25th at Annenberg Auditorium. The conference’s mission is to educate you, to motivate you, to inspire you to achieve success at every point in your career, whether you’re learning the ropes at your first, entry-level job or leading a successful company and looking to reach new heights. To that end, the conference features speakers who have reached these heights and are eager to share their stories, from recent graduates pioneering their own innovative start-ups to CEO’s of multinational corporations. We invite you to hear these stories, participate in hands-on conference workshops, and in the process, broaden your definition of the path a career can and should take.


    Speaker Lineup:
    Sue Gardner, Executive Director, Wikipedia
    Ellen Siminoff, Founding Executive, Yahoo!, CEO, Shmoop, Board of Mozilla Corporation
    Jawed Karim, Co-Founder, Youtube,
    Sophia Bekele, Founder and CEO, CBS International
    Jessica Steel, SVP Business Development, Pandora
    Charlotte Guyman, Director, Berkshire Hathaway
    Donna Wells, Chief Marketing Officer, Mint.com
    Adriana Gascoigne, Director of Communications, hi5
    Mara Brazer, Founder, Brazer Communications
    Elaine Wherry, Co-founder, Meebo
    Jason Shen, Founder, Gumball Capital
    Filip Kaliszan, Co-Founder, CourseRank
    Kayvon Beykpour, Co-Founder, TerriblyClever Design
    ... and more!

    http://swib.stanford.edu/idk2ceo/2009/home.html

  • 4. Featured Bay Area Events

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    Monday, April 20
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    UC BERKELEY-HAAS: Entrepreneurial Best Practices Series
    6:30PM to 8:30PM ~ Haas School of Business, Wells Fargo Room, C420
    Berkeley, CA, 94705

    Topic: "Financing"

    The Best Practices Series brings to UC Berkeley and the Haas
    School the best practitioners from the Berkeley and Silicon
    Valley community to speak about the practical aspects of
    entrepreneurial activity. The series is timed to match the
    academic year and also the business plan competition season,
    particularly the Berkeley Business Plan Competition and the
    Global Social Venture Competition.

    Entrepreneurs from the Berkeley campus and the community in
    general are encouraged to come to each of the sessions.

    Each session will start with light refreshments and networking.
    Please check the Lester Center's email for exact starting times,
    speaker bios and mailing list.

    http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/calendar/


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    Monday, April 20
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    SDForum STARTUP & MARKETING SIGS: Strategic Pricing for Start-ups, New Products, & Innovations
    6:30PM to 8:30PM ~ Orrick
    1100 Marsh Road Menlo Park, CA, 94025

    Pricing is hard, and most companies don't spend much time
    thinking about it. Often, it's decided late in the development
    cycle, tactically, and copied from competitors that we hope did
    their homework. Startups and companies with innovative new
    products may not have an existing competitor to copy the wrong
    answers from. Instead, they have an opportunity to define the
    right business model and pricing to tilt the marketplace in their
    favor.

    Using some real-world examples plus an imaginary product, we'll
    explore:

    - how would customer value your product (or service)?
    - what is the right pricing unit? (by the month, by the seat, by
    the download, stock trade, answer, GB of storage, movie, social
    connection&)
    - will this support your business model?
    - how will you keep making money over time?

    http://www.sdforum.org


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    Thursday, March 26
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    SKMurphy: Bootstrappers Breakfast
    9:00AM to 10:30AM ~ Red Rock Coffee (Upstairs)
    201 Castro St. Mountain View, CA, 94041

    Join Other Entrepreneurs Who Eat Problems For Breakfast.

    * Compare Notes
    * Exchange Ideas
    * Learn from Others Mistakes
    * Brainstorm with Peers
    * Find Partners
    * Small Group Atmosphere
    * Serious Conversation
    * In by 9:00 AM Out by 10:30AM

    At Bootstrappers Breakfast we have serious conversations about
    growing a business based on internal cashflow. This is not for
    entrepreneurs who want to meet VCs, this is for founders who are
    actively bootstrapping a startup.

  • 5. Acknowledgements & Event Submission

    Have an event you'd like us to include in our next Digest? Please use our simple online form located at http://bases.stanford.edu/about-us/digest/submit-event/. Please note that we reserve the right to publish only events we feel will best benefit our entrepreneurial community. Thank you!

    BASES is made possible through the generous sponsorship of leading venture capitalists, law firms, banks and corporations. BASES Platinum Sponsor: Lightspeed Venture Partners. Gold Sponsors: Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, New Enterprise Associates. Silver Sponsors: Mohr Davidow Ventures, Silicon Valley Bank, Philips, Norwest Venture Partners, and PlugandPlay TechCenter. The grand prize sponsor for the E-Challenge business plan competition is Morgenthaler Ventures.

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