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  • BASES

    26 May 2009
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  • Table of contents:

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

  • 1. Member Updates

    ** Interested in intellectual property? Check out the summer quarter night course (BUS 60) on maximizing benefits of patent applications and patents and managing intellectual property. Meets Wedesday nights starting on June 24th. continuingstudies.stanford.edu

  • 2. Coming Up In BASES

    Tuesday, May 26th:
    > Emerging Opportunities for Chinese Entrepreneurs

    Wednesday, May 27th:
    > ETL Seminar featuring: Tina Seelig - Executive Director, STVP & Author, "What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20"
    > Marketing 101

    Thursday, May 28th:
    > SVASE VC Breakfast Club with Rob Conybeer, Shasta Ventures Focus: Mobile & Wireless, Technology Applications

    Friday, May 29nd:
    > BASES Social-Entrepreneurship Challenge: FINAL ROUND!

    Monday, June 1st:
    > European Entrepreneurship & Innovation Thought Leaders Seminar

  • 3. Featured Bay Area Events

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    Wednesday, May 27
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    ETL Seminar featuring: Tina Seelig - Executive Director, STVP & Author, "What I Wish I Knew When I was 20"
    4:15PM to 5:30PM ~ Memorial Auditorium
    Stanford University

    Tina Seelig, Ph.D. is the Executive Director for the Stanford Technology Ventures Program where she is responsible for strategic planning, operations, and outreach efforts of STVP. In addition, Tina is the Director of the Stanford Entrepreneurship Network and the co-Director of the Mayfield Fellows Program. Tina's latest book, What I wish I knew when I was 20, provides insights on life, leadership, and the little things that make a big difference in an entrepreneurial setting.

    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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    Friday, May 29
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    BASES Social-Entrepreneurship Challenge: FINAL ROUND!
    1:30PM to 4:45PM ~ Bldg. 320-105 (Geology Corner)
    Stanford University

    The BASES Social-E Challenge, one of the premier student-run social entrepreneurship business plan competitions in the country, will be hosting its final round event this Friday, May 29th at Stanford University. The event is free and open to the public for the first time in competition history. Our six finalist teams will present their ventures to a distinguished panel of judges. $50,000 will be awarded, with $25,000 going to the 1st place team. This is one of the strongest groups of finalists we have ever had (not to mention an incredible panel of esteemed judges), and all of us are eagerly looking forward to how the event unfolds.

    Announcing This Year's Finalists:
    - Driptech
    - OneBreath
    - Re:Motion Designs
    - Respira Design
    - SEE College Prep
    - Sustainable Health Enterprises (SHE)

    bases.stanford.edu


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    Monday, June 1
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    European Entrepreneurship & Innovation Thought Leaders Seminar
    4:15PM to 5:30PM ~ Skilling Auditorium
    Stanford University

    This Week's Topic: Innovation Models in Nordic Companies

    This Week's Speakers:
    * Lisa Waits, Director, Business Validation, Nokia Research Center

    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.

  • 4. Featured Bay Area Events

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    Tuesday, May 26
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    Emerging Opportunities for Chinese Entrepreneurs (CleanTech, Medical, Cloudcomputing, etc.)
    6:30PM to 9:00PM ~ Shonneschein at Palo Alto
    1530 Page Mill Rd. Suite 200, Palo Alto, CA, 94304

    Panels:

    1. 50+% efficiency record holder on solar cell
    Board Of Director at Solar Junction
    Professor at Stanford EE
    x-Principle Scientist at Rockwell

    2. Chief of Research at Stanford Medical Center expert of molecular imaging to radiation oncology

    3. Cloud Computing Expert, VP of Emerging Technology at PGP, Leading Data Storage/Security Company

    4. Of-course, VC, VC, and More VCs&

    5. Bonus for fearless entrepreneurs: 1-minute-Pitch up to 6 companies,
    Winner Award: a lab Server ($2000 worth)


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    Wednesday, May 27
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    Marketing 101
    6:00PM to 8:00PM ~ San Jose Entrepreneurship Center
    84 W. Santa Clara Street, Suite 100 San Jose, CA, 95113

    This workshop offers a comprehensive introduction to all aspects
    of marketing for the small business owner. Areas covered
    include: Understanding the 5 P's: Product, Positioning, Place,
    Price, Promotion; What is a marketing plan?; how to begin
    thinking like a marketer; basics on target markets; competitive
    analysis, features and benefits analysis; market research
    resources.

    http://www.svsbdc.org


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    Thursday, May 28
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    SVASE VC Breakfast Club with Rob Conybeer, Shasta Ventures Focus: Mobile & Wireless, Technology Applications, and Infrastructure
    8:00AM to 9:30AM ~ Townsend, Townsend and Crew LLP
    379 Lytton Ave Palo Alto, CA, 94301

    Rob Conybeer, Managing Director, Shasta Ventures
    Rob Coneybeer brings to Shasta Ventures deep experience in
    building early-stage companies. Prior to co-founding Shasta
    Ventures, he was a general partner at New Enterprise Associates
    (NEA) where he led 15 investments in core infrastructure
    technologies spanning semiconductors, software and networking
    equipment.

    Prior to joining the venture capital industry, Rob served as a
    lead integration and test engineer in the Astro Space division
    of Martin Marietta. While at Martin Marietta, Rob helped build
    the first EchoStar spacecraft.

    http://www.svase.org

  • 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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