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    17 November 2008
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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

  • 1. Member Updates

    ** Global Innovation Challenge wraps up THIS week!
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    ** Guy Kawasaki speaks at Stanford (details below)

  • 2. This Week in BASES

    Tuesday, November 11th:
    > Berkeley Entrepreneurs Forum : Entrepreneurial Best Practices Series : Internet Marketing & Business Strategies
    > Women 2.0 & Berkeley Womin in Business: "So You Wanna Start a Startup?"

    Wednesday, November 19th:
    > Guy Kawasaki Speaks at Global Innovation Challenge Award Ceremony

    Thursday, November 20th:
    > SVASE: Getting Your Lifescience Startup Off the Ground

    Friday, November 21st:
    > Lunch 2.0 at FixYa
    > PlugandPlayTechCenter presents "WebPlay Conference"

  • 3. Featured Stanford Events

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    Wednesday, November 19
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    Guy Kawasaki & Global Innovation Tournament Showcase
    Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL) Seminar
    4:30 - 5:45 PM ~ Kresge Auditorium, Stanford University

    ** Free and open to the public **
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    Join us for the Global Innovation Tournament Showcase with Guy Kawasaki, who will be signing his new book, Reality Check, afterward.

    The tournament is a fun, “Apprentice”-style competition in which teams of students from around the world have only four days to create as much value as possible using WATER BOTTLES and show what they’ve done in a YouTube video. The results this year are amazing, so prepare to be entertained! Over 500 teams at 60 schools in 14 countries are participating. We will be showing all the BEST video submissions from across Stanford at this event. The audience will get to pick the grand prize winner, so come to vote! http://eweek.stanford.edu

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    The tournament is an official activity of Global Entrepreneurship Week and is being organized by the Stanford Entrepreneurship Network (SEN). SEN is generously sponsored by Deloitte. Stanford University's Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Seminar is a weekly speaker series featuring entrepreneurial leaders from the fields of business, technology, education, and philanthropy who share their insights with aspiring entrepreneurs from all over the world. 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

  • 4. Featured Bay Area Events

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    Tuesday, November 18
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    Berkeley Entrepreneurs Forum : Internet Marketing & Business Strategies
    6:30 pm -- 8:30 pm ~ Haas School of Business
    2220 Piedmont Stanley Auditorium, 105, Berkeley, CA

    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.

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    Tuesday, November 18
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    Women 2.0 partners & Berkeley Women in Business: "So You Wanna Start a Startup?"
    7:00 pm -- 9:00 pm ~ MLK Student Union
    Bancroft Way at Telegraph Avenue Tan Oak room, Berkeley, CA

    Women 2.0 has partnered with Berkeley's Women in Business and internshipIN to bring you the first Women 2.0 event on the UC Berkeley campus!

    Join us on Tuesday, November 18th, 2008, from 7pm to 9pm, at UC Berkeley's Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union building in the Tan Oak room (4th floor).

    * Learn from six women entrepreneurs in various industries and hear how they transformed a few simple ideas into remarkable businesses!
    * Get students excited about your company or project with a short 1 min introductions.
    * Meet enthusiastic Berkeley students and potentially leave with a new co-founder or intern for your team!

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    Thursday, November 20
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    SVASE: Getting Your Lifescience Startup Off the Ground
    6:00 pm -- 8:30 pm ~ Cooley Godward Kronish LLP
    3175 Hanover Street, Palo Alto, CA 94304

    Starting a Life Science company can be tough. There are plenty of challenges to starting any type of Biomedical company: choosing the right form of entity; developing a IP portfolio, advisors and early-in employees; bootstrapping until your first investors appear, then lasting sources of capital; knowing how much R&D and developing smart strategies for marketing, selling and managing channels.

    Come hear a panel of seasoned entrepreneurs and strategists tell you what they learned when starting, running or counseling Life Science startups. The panel will walk you through the creative steps and calculated risks you may have to consider taking to get your Biomedical startup off the ground especially when the odds are pitched heavily against you. The panel will touch upon how to navigate the regulatory maze, enforce decisions from an indecisive and reluctant FDA. It will address questions such as when VCs talk about "market conditions," what do they mean? And more; Strategy Development, Startup Management, Regulatory, Capital Investment, Legal Aspect….

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    Friday, November 21
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    Lunch 2.0 at FixYa
    12:00 pm to 2:00 pm ~ FixYa [1/2 block from San Mateo Caltrain nr Main St. Garage]
    107 South B Street 22.0, San Mateo, CA 94401

    From fixing cars, to cameras, to iPhones, FixYa's community of 9M techies, tinkerers and hobbyists are powering a global DIY/repair revolution...and we're growing at a rate of 10% per month.On Nov 21, meet our talented team, pitch your skills to our hiring managers and finally, FIX YA self a plate.
    SAVE THE DATE - Fri. Nov. 21. 2008, from noon-2pm

    WHERE – FIXYA
    107 South B Street, Suite 220, San Mateo, Calif.
    [Half a block from the San Mateo Caltrain station next to Main Street parking garage]

    RSVP: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1317609/?ps=7

  • 5. 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.

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