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    13 October 2009
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  • Table of contents:

    1. 5 Club members will be pitching for £1000!
    2. Silicon Valley Speaker Series Continues with Marketing Maven Sean Ellis
    3. Silicon Valley Speaker Jim Papp on "Angel Investing in Silicon Valley Today"
    4. George Mackintosh EIR Sessions November 10

  • 1. 5 Club members will be pitching for £1000!

    Wednesday, 14 October 2009, 18:30-21:00
    Lecture Theatre 1, Business School, 7 Bristo Square

    All club members are welcome to come and listen to five fellow members pitch their business ideas to an experienced panel of judges. The pitchers will have 5 minutes to present their idea and then take questions from the judges in a Dragon's Den-style format. The winner will be announced during the drinks reception afterwards.

    The pitches are:

    Interpersonal Map: A People's Relationship Network System Based On Web by Jianming (Jeremy) Xi
    My idea is a combination of Facebook and Atlas, which is a web-based system about people relationship mapping. The users register with their basic information and add their friends in the system and their friends also have friends so the system will build a virtual map of people for all the users on the internet, and the link between the users is the relationship of them. After the map system is established, the customer could search the certain person he needs (such as IBM HR or Professors in University of Edinburgh) through the virtual map of people and the result brings up the location of people in the relationship map, as well as he could also find out what's the relationship between the target and himself. For instance, if you want to find a job in IBM and you don't know any IBM HR, but your friends or your friends' friends may know the IBM HR and you could get one through the map for convenience. The mapping system will have a great future because they are able to search the needed person easily and the people's relationship and friends are the most significant thing in one's life.

    SiReA by Carlos Isoard
    Sirea is an app for smartphones that will make it easier to navigate through foreign cities. Upon encountering a sign written in a language that is not understood by the user (say, a French traveler in Bulgaria), he or she can use the app to translate it. Using the phone's camera, the app sends an image of the sign to a server that interprets it and translates it, sending the translated text back to the phone. The system uses proven technologies of OCR and translation, over wireless internet connections (either normal data transfer, 3G, or WiFi). Revenue will be obtained from app sales, contextual advertising, and (in GPS equipped devices) geographically relevant advertising.

    Personal Tracking System by David Luger
    PTS is a system that uses existing RFID technology to track personal items, specifically tools (but it could easily be expanded). Each tool could be fit with a RFID tag that would allow it to be individually tracked and if it is taken out of tool box (which would be fit with a receiver), the time that the item is removed would be recorded and logged. This would provide an audit trail that would allow a person to find where their tool is or they could use a hand held device to locate the errant tool even if it was mixed in with other tools. This would be very useful in situations like construction sites where there are many workers and the loss of valuable tools leads to cost over runs and delays. This idea could also be used to track other high value, multiple piece items like cameras and lenses or travel items in baggage.

    Zoomatelo by Jonathan Millin
    Zoomatelo solves a simple problem: Everyday millions of neighbours separately drive to the same places of work and drop kids at the same schools. People don’t carpool, but why? It would save them money, save the environment, and even make them friends! The problem is incomplete Information - People don’t know where their colleagues live, or where their neighbour’s kids go to school. Zoomatelo solves this problem. Zoomatelo is a simple, closed social-network, which pairs people who work, school and live close to each other, providing a secure communications platform for them to easily initiate a ride-sharing relationship.

    Vanity Theorems by Flaminia Cavallo
    Many mathematical theorems are names after people. Everyone has heard of Pythagoras Theorem, Newton's Laws or Kepler's Laws. The name of this mathematicians will last beyond time. But now you don't need to be good with number to have your name remembered forever! We'll do the maths.. and anyone can have a mathematical theorem named after themself or after a friend!! This is possible thanks to a system that generates and proofs completely novel theorems (my 4th year project!). We are selling these "vanity theorems" to consumers so that can name them for them self or as a gift to someone!!! :)

  • 2. Silicon Valley Speaker Series Continues with Marketing Maven Sean Ellis

    “Internet Marketing for Silicon Valley Startups” with Sean Ellis

    In this Silicon Valley Speaker Series talk by internet marketing consultant Sean Ellis, he will discuss the start of internet marketing specifically for start-ups. How can one use metrics to take a scientific approach to maximize the results of your online marketing push? What are the key things a good marketer has to understand, know, and do? Come and learn how it is done in the Valley.

    Wednesday 28th October 2009 (18:30 – 21:00)
    Lecture Theatre 1, Business School, 7 Bristo Square

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  • 3. Silicon Valley Speaker Jim Papp on "Angel Investing in Silicon Valley Today"

    Angel investor and adjunct Berkeley Professor Jim Papp, will give a behind-the-scenes look at informal investment in the Bay Area. How has what angel investors look for in a deal changed in this economy? What is getting funded and what is it about these deals that is sparking the interest of these moneymen. What do entrepreneurs need to know to cater to these trends? What is hot, what are investors looking for, how are the terms? What do entrepreneurs need to know? Come and learn.

    Tuesday, 3 November 2009 (18:30-20:00)
    Lecture Theatre 1, Business School, 7 Bristo Square

  • 4. George Mackintosh EIR Sessions November 10

    If you are interested in bouncing your business ideas around with an expert, please sign up to speak with Entrepreneur in Residence George Mackintosh. All meetings with our EIRs are free and confidential.

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