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  13 May 2008
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• Table of contents:

  1. Recruitment 2008-2009
  2. Organizational Structure
  3. Team Descriptions

• 1. Recruitment 2008-2009

  "The best way to get connected and launch your career is through BASES. VCs and startups want to get to Stanford and they do it through BASES."
  - Erik Straser, Mohr Davidow Ventures, BASES President 1998
  
  Why Join BASES?
  
  Being a part of BASES offers you the chance to participate in a premiere entrepreneurship organization. Recognized as a leader internationally, nationally, and in the Bay Area, BASES offers an experience no other on-campus organization can offer.
  
  
  
  TO APPLY:
  
  Executive position:
  Fill out the online application here by May 16th, 2008.
  
  Officer position:
  Fill out the online application here by May 21st, 2008.
  
  Questions?
  Send an email to joinbases@gmail.com and we'll be happy to answer your questions. You can also check the BASES website at bases.stanford.edu.
  
  Descriptions of the different roles within BASES as well as descriptions of each of the teams can be found below.
  
  

• 2. Organizational Structure

  BASES consists of eight teams, each comprised of officers and a Vice President, that work with the Co-Presidents and the CFO to accomplish the many activities of the organization.
  
  Co-Presidents:
  
  The Co-Presidents serve as the leaders and representatives of BASES. The people assuming this role are responsible for recruiting people for the organization, leading the Executive Board throughout the year, and providing overall direction and vision. The Co-Presidents are also a liaison between the Executive Board and the Board of Advisors.
  
  The Co-Presidents for 2008-09 are Heesun Lho and Eli Rabek.
  
  Executives (VPs):
  
  Each team within BASES is led by a Vice President or C-level executive. Each VP and CxO sits on the Executive Board and works directly with the Co-Presidents. All activities related to a particular team are overseen by the VP of that team, including recruiting `Officers for the team, assigning specific roles to Officers, and overall direction and vision for that team. Executive applications are due May 16th, 2008. Instructions on applying listed at the bottom of this document.
  
  Officers:
  
  Teams within BASES (see team descriptions below for more information about the teams within BASES) are composed of a VP and about 4-7 Officers. Candidates need to apply to the Officer position and express a preference for the team they wish to join. The VPs are responsible for choosing a team of Officers. Officer applications are due May 21st, 2008. Instructions on applying listed at the bottom of this document.
  
  Members:
  
  BASES Members are the union of students who attend ETL, workshops, the career fair, participate in our competitions, or participate in any of our other events. Members should subscribe to the BASES Digest, our weekly electronic newsletter.
  
  

• 3. Team Descriptions

  BASES Team Descriptions
  
  Social Entrepreneur's $50K Challenge:
  
  The Social Entrepreneur's Challenge succeeded in launching Stanford's first-ever social venture business plan competition and created tremendous excitement from students across campus. Throughout the academic year, the Social E-Challenge team organizes workshops on social entrepreneurship, arranges mixers so that people with business ideas can find team members, develop a mentorship program so that teams in the competition gain valuable professional expertise to help sharpen their entries, and run a competition that takes place over three rounds. The first round of the competition is typically the submission of a short executive summary of a business idea, while the second and third rounds involve presentations in front of judges. This is an opportunity to define what Social Entrepreneurship is, to network with other prominent players in the field and to form a network of social entrepreneurs.
  
  Entrepreneur's $50K Challenge:
  
  The BASES Entrepreneurs Challenge ("E-Challenge") is Stanford's largest business plan competition. The E-Challenge provides students with a variety of resources to help them transform an idea into a business, such as educational workshops, mentorship, networking sessions, and a framework for developing an early stage business. The role of the E-Challenge committee is to organize the structure of these events, such as deciding the form of the judging process and the workshop topics, and then inviting industry professionals to provide the content for these events.
  
  I-Challenge:
  
  The goal of this year's I-Challenge is to create opportunities for students to showcase the ideas being developed in the Stanford community. The I-Challenge team will provide the support and guidance to encourage students to develop their ideas and access to industry professionals. Finally, through speaker events, developmental mixers, and presentations, the I-Challenge will encourage innovation in the community and provide a forum for students with similar passions to network.
  
  Community Development:
  
  Community development is a top priority of BASES. If you want to create interactive events that maintain and grow the entrepreneurial community, the Community Development team has incredible opportunities waiting for you. As an officer you invent and organize events intended to bring together BASES members, departments, entrepreneurs, industry leaders, and venture capitalists. The cross-pollination between these different communities is intended to increase excitement and understanding of entrepreneurship in hopes of connecting individuals to start new things.
  
  Career Services:
  
  The goal of Career Services is to connect students passionate about engineering and business with the wide range of opportunities available from the start-up industry. To achieve this, our team is responsible for hosting career fairs that showcase innovative new start-ups and the positions they offer for Stanford students. We also maintain the online Job Postings service with over 5000 subscribers. Finally, we have fostered strong partnerships with organizations such as Stanford's Career Development Center and the Computer Forum, allowing BASES to become the definitive job resource for the next generation of entrepreneurs.
  
  Business Development:
  
  The Business Development team is responsible for raising capital for BASES to organize the various activities and services that it provides for entrepreneurship education. As an officer in Business Development, you would help maintain relationships with sponsors that help fund BASES.
  
  Marketing:
  
  Marketing is responsible for building awareness of BASES within the Stanford campus and the larger entrepreneurial community. You would help the BASES officers understand and present a consistent brand of BASES. Marketing activities include the creation of press releases, articles, advertisements, the BASES Digest, the BASES brand, marketing communications materials such as the BASES brochure and BASES video, as well as promotional event management. Marketing provides an excellent opportunity to gain an overview of all of BASES' activities through interaction with the various teams within the organization.
  
  Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Seminar (ETL):
  
  Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Seminar is a weekly series on entrepreneurship, co-sponsored by BASES, Stanford Technology Ventures Program, and the School of Engineering. It functions both as a BASES event and a class called 'Management Science & Engineering 472'. ETL is organized by BASES officers and faculty members of the MS&E department.
  
  Technology (CTO):
  
  The CTO applies technology to making BASES run smoother, spotting operational snags and implementing their solutions. This would be valuable experience in system administration, web design and infrastructures/db design and implementation (think backend). The technology team will work with the CTO to design and develop custom solutions for the BASES community. This is an opportunity to learn and/or improve your skills in technologies ranging from Linux, JSP, PHP, PostgresDB and more...
  
  Finance (CFO):
  
  The CFO manages all of BASES finances, one of the largest accounts for any student group at Stanford. It would be your responsibility to oversee budgets for each team throughout the year and to handle the financial portion of the relationship between sponsors and award winners. This position provides high-level involvement with all of BASES' divisions and valuable leadership experience as part of the executive team.
  
  

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