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    28 October 2008
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  • Table of contents:

    1. Featured Stanford Events
    2. Featured Bay Area Events
    3. Acknowledgments

  • 1. Featured Stanford Events

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    Wednesday, October 29
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    Judy Estrin, CEO of Packet Design and Former CTO of Cisco Systems
    Speaking at Stanford's Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Seminar
    4:30 - 5:30 PM ~ Kresge Auditorium, Stanford University

    You're invited to ETL this week!

    Stanford University's Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Seminar is a weekly speaker series that brings 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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    Judy Estrin is currently the CEO of Packet Design, an industry leading integrated suite of IP traffic and route analysis products. She is also the author of Closing the Innovation Gap, a general interest book that challenges national, academic and business leaders to work together to make America competitive again. Furthermore, Judy is a technology entrepreneur who co-founded seven companies with Bill Carrico and was the CTO of Cisco Systems from 1998 to 2000. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Walt Disney Company and FedEx Corporation, and formerly on the boards of Rockwell and Sun Microsystems. She also serves on the advisory boards of Stanford’s School of Engineering and Bio-X interdisciplinary program, and is a member of the University of California President’s Science and Innovation Advisory Board.

    Judy has been named three times as one of Fortune magazine's 50 most powerful women in American business. She was honored in 2002 with induction into the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame
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    ETL is brought to you by the Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students in collaboration with the Stanford Technology Ventures Program and is generously underwritten by Draper Fisher Jurvetson.

    etl.stanford.edu


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    Saturday, November 1
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    Gumball Challenge Kickoff Event
    1PM ~ Old Union, Stanford University

    The Gumball Challenge, Stanford's 1-week microfinance benefit competition, kicks off this Saturday @ 1PM in Old Union Room 200! Come by or spread the word if you want to raise money for the working poor in developing countries. Prizes include a lunch meeting with Premal Shah, President of Kiva.org, free gift certificates to local restaurants, and more!

    For more information: http://www.gumballchallenge...

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  • 2. Featured Bay Area Events

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    Tuesday, October 28
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    UC BERKELEY-HAAS: Entrepreneurial Best Practices Series
    6:30PM to 8:30PM ~ Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
    Haas School of Business, Stanley Auditorium Berkeley, CA, 94705

    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.

    Each session will start with light refreshments and networking.
    More Information: http://entrepreneurship.ber...


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    Wednesday, October 29
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    VentureBeat's "How to manage your startup in the downturn” Roundtable
    8am-12pm ~ Stanford Park Hotel
    100 El Camino Real, Menlo Park, CA 94025

    Some of the most experienced and respected business leaders in Silicon Valley will debate the current fallout and provide advice to start-up founders and executives about how to manage the mess we’re in. The format will be two roundtables, one for investors and one for entrepreneurs.
    Online description: http://venturebeat.com/2008...

    Speakers include

    * John Doerr, Kleiner Perkins
    * Ram Shriram, early investor in and founding board member at Google
    * Ron Conway, arguably the most prolific Web 2.0 angel investor
    * Max Levchin, Slide founder and PayPal co-founder
    * Nirav Tolia, Epinions co-founder
    * Matt Cohler, Benchmark Capital
    * Jason Calacanis, founder of Mahalo
    * Kittu Kolluri, New Enterprise Associates
    * Toni Schneider, Automattic CEO

    General Admission: $189
    Tickets available at http://roundtables.myevent....

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    The Young Enterprise Thrival Guide
    8:00AM to 9:00AM ~ Carr & Ferrell LLP
    2200 Geng Road Palo Alto, CA, 94303

    Despite what you may be fearing, new businesses can be founded and grown during periods of economic downturns. However, you have to be more clever and resourceful than you may have been in the past to emerge as one of the the winners. Moderated by Carr & Ferrell Partner, Jill Fishbein, this seminar will feature Carol Sands, Founder and Managing Member of The Angels' Forum and The Halo Funds and executive entrepreneurs who will share specific strategies for leveraging non-cash assets and
    relationships that have taken companies successfully through other troubled times. Specific topics to be addressed include:

    * Non-standard revenue models
    * Best use of cash and other valuable assets
    * Creating profitable partnerships, not just window dressing
    * Alternative financing sources

    The Innovator's Engine delivers relevant and useful content to
    arm today's entrepreneurs with the tools to build a successful
    business venture. Hosted by Carr & Ferrell, this seminar
    provides emerging emerging technology entrepreneurs and venture
    investors a venue in which deals and relationships can originate
    and incubate.

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  • 3. Acknowledgments

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