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    02 February 2009
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  • Table of contents:

    1. Member Updates
    2. This Week in BASES
    3. Featured Stanford Events
    4. Featured Bay Area Events
    5. Acknowledgments & Event Submission

  • 1. Member Updates

    ** Mayfield Fellows Program applications due TODAY
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    ** Thank you all who came out to last week's E-Challenge and Social E-Challenge kick-off! It was a smashing success, and don't forget first round submissions are due February 17th
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    ** Mark your calendar and plan to attend the third annual Entrepreneurship Week
    at Stanford University, February 18-25, 2009. Everyone is invited! There will be speakers, workshops, mixers, prizes, a job fair and more! Most events are free and open to the public. For more information, please visit eweek.stanford.edu

  • 2. This Week in BASES

    Monday, February 2nd:
    > European Entrepreneurship & Innovation Thought Leaders Seminar

    Wednesday, February 4th:
    > ETL Seminar featuring: Spencer E. Ante, Computer Department - Business Week, Author - Creative Capital
    > VCTaskforce: The Elevator Pitch Roundtable
    > Business Bites: Private Equity and Venture Capital

    Thursday, February 5th:
    > SVASE Main Event: Funding Your Start Up Company

    Saturday, February 7th:
    > Women Leadership Forum

    Thursday, February 12th:
    > Coaches-on-Call: Brian Lieber - Battery Ventures

    Wednesday, February 18th:
    > E-Week Kickoff: President Hennessy on Entrepreneurial Leadership

  • 3. Featured Stanford Events

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    Monday, February 2
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    European Entrepreneurship & Innovation Thought Leaders Seminar
    4:15PM to 5:30PM ~ Skilling Auditorium
    Stanford University

    This Week's Speakers:
    * Dr. Christopher J. Horn - Vice Chairman & Co-Founder, IONA Technologies (Ireland)
    * Sergei Burkov - Google Russia and Russian Entrepreneur

    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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    Wednesday, February 4
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    ETL Seminar featuring: Spencer E. Ante, Computer Department - Business Week, Author - Creative Capital
    4:30PM to 5:30PM ~ Skilling Auditorium
    Stanford University

    This week’s ETL speaker, Spencer Ante, has been a distinguished business journalist for over a decade. He currently serves as editor of the Computers Department for Businessweek, a position he has held since February 2000. Prior to that, he worked as a staff reporter for TheStreet.com and Wired News. Recently he has been nationally recognized with for his outstanding work in his field. For a 2006 investigative story about the world’s most dangerous cybercriminals, called “Meet the Hackers”, he was the recipient of a 2007 Deadline Club Award from the Society of Professional Journalists. A year earlier, he won a 2006 award from the American Society of Business Publication Editors for a story called “A Hole in Bush’s Exit Strategy” about the problematic American training of Iraqi security forces. His newest book, Creative Capital: Georges Doriot and the Birth of Venture Capital, was published just this past April by the Harvard Business School press. We hope that you will be able to join us on Wednesday, February 4th, at 4:30 PM in Skilling Auditorium to hear Spencer speak about the lessons he’s learned about entrepreneurship and business journalism along the way!

    Don’t forget about the scheduled dinner with Teresa that will follow her 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, February 4
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    Business Bites: Private Equity and Venture Capital
    7:00PM to 9:00PM ~ Women's Community Center (Fire Truck House)
    Stanford University

    Are you interested in private equity? Want to get an insight into how VCs work? Come hear Dan Saper from Alpine Investors and Katie Briscoe from Lehman Brothers Venture Capital.

    Learn about the financial industry from successful insiders.

    RSVP to anna@stanfordwomeninbusiness.com


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    Thursday, February 12
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    Coaches-on-Call: Brian Lieber - Battery Ventures
    2:00PM to 4:00PM ~ Terman Engineering Center, Room 419
    Stanford University

    Brian joined Battery Ventures in 2004 and oversees investments related to the firm's Entrepreneur in Residence program. His investments include: A Place for Mom, Angie's List, Omniture (NASDAQ: OMTR), and Bangalore-based Tejas Networks. Prior to joining Battery, Brian spent five years as a senior associate with The Bowdoin Group, an executive search firm focused on the software and Internet sectors.

    Earlier in his career, he held regional sales executive positions with Santa Cruz-based UNIX operating system developer SCO, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOX) and Baltimore-based Allegis Group, a $3B technology outsourcing firm. Brian is an active member of the North Carolina Council for Entrepreneurial Development. He graduated from Wittenberg University with a BA in Political Science.

    Coaches-On-Call is a service where industry professionals hold "office hours," where students can gather advice and industry will have access to Stanford students.


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    Wednesday, February 18
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    E-Week Kickoff: President Hennessy on Entrepreneurial Leadership
    4:30PM to 6:30PM ~ Kresge Auditorium
    Stanford University

    Featured Speaker: John Hennessy Join us for a thought-provoking, inspirational talk about entrepreneurial leadership by Stanford President, John Hennessy. His insights come from leading Stanford University as well as his prior experiences as a successful entrepreneur and his current role as a board member for several high technology ventures, including Google, Cisco Systems, and Atheros Communications. As part of the festivities, we will launch Entrepreneurship Week at Stanford and give out audience prizes.

    Hosts: Stanford Entrepreneurship Network (SEN), Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP), and Business Association of Entrepreneurial Students (BASES)

  • 4. Featured Bay Area Events

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    Wednesday, February 4
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    VCTaskforce: The Elevator Pitch Roundtable
    6:00PM to 8:30PM ~ Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman
    2475 Hanover Street, Palo Alto

    The VC Taskforce Elevator Pitch Roundtable is a great opportunity for
    entrepreneurs to network with investors and other CXOs, present their
    company and idea, and hear first-hand what it takes to raise early-stage
    capital in 2008. Each of our events has consistently drawn an excellent
    entrepreneur-to-investor ratio.

    If you are an entrepreneur in a startup and currently seeking capital,
    come prepared with your best 90-second elevator pitch.

    If you are an investor come and listen to entrepreneurs' pitches. You
    never know where you'll find your next deal. Find out how our panel of
    investors rate the entrepreneurs' pitches; which VCs pass and for what
    reasons.

    http://www.vctaskforce.com/



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    Thursday, February 5
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    SVASE Main Event: Funding Your Start Up Company
    6:00PM to 8:30PM ~ Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
    950 Page Mill Road Palo Alto, CA, 94304

    How do you fund a startup in an uncertain economic climate? With financial markets in mayhem and credit crunching, is there any hope for funding a startup company? Can you get sales traction and cash flow positive without institutional investment? If you can, then that’s a solid testament to your startup’s value proposition to customers, and now you’re looking for expansion funding instead of seed capital to test out your idea. And while the bar for admission has unquestionably been raised, there IS still venture capital out there, along with other sources such as friends & family, customers, corporate partners and even government grants.

    We bring together an experienced group of entrepreneurs and investors and ask them to share their knowledge on what it takes to build a viable company in the current climate, and what advice can be gleaned from past experience?

    This lively panel discussion will explore current trends and panelist opinions on topics including:
    What does a “Capital Efficient” startup look like?
    Where do you find the people & resources for next to nothing?
    How can you generate revenue straight out of the gate?
    If I can generate revenue, and I have minimal expense, why do I need Venture Capital?
    What market sectors are attractive to VCs now?

    http://www.svase.org/?q=node/2019



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    Saturday, February 7
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    Women Leadership Forum
    9:30AM to 3:00PM ~ SUN Microsystems Menlo Park Capus MPK10
    SUN Microsystems, Bldg. 10, 14 Network Circle, Menlo Park, CA, 94025

    Workplace challenges are different and more significant for
    women. Through our inspiring keynote address, panel discussions
    and mentorship lunch we will explore how these challenges can be
    faced, preempted and converted into opportunities. How women can
    position themselves for success in the workplace, what pitfalls
    to avoid and how to achieve a higher level of personal and
    professional success through effective negotiation, time
    management and personal development skills.

    We will also discuss how to keep your skills current if you are
    planning to take a break from your career, start your own
    business, how to get back to work and how to balance the various
    commitments on your time. Come and be inspired and empowered by
    stories of women who have been where you are; and were able to
    convert the challenges into opportunities for personal and
    professional growth

    Join us for an inspiring afternoon which will help you to get to
    the next level of personal and professional effectiveness and
    success; whatever that may look like for YOU.

    OPEN is an inclusive organization, focused primarily on the promotion of entrepreneurship and business leadership. OPEN Silicon Valley community is several thousand-strong, and includes corporate professionals, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and banking professionals, social leaders, academics and students.

    http://www.opensiliconvalley.org/

  • 5. Acknowledgments & Event Submission

    Have an event you'd like us to include in our next Digest? Try out our new automated event submission system at http://bases.stanford.edu/about-us/digest/submit-event/. Please note, while we openly encourage submissions from all organizations, we strive to maintain the editorial integrity of our weekly newsletter; therefore, only submissions that we feel will best help the entrepreneurial community at large will be published.

    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 and PlugandPlay TechCenter. The grand prize sponsor for the E-Challenge business plan competition is Morgenthaler Ventures.

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