Club Leadership role - Statement of interest : SOM Entrepreneurship Club is now seeking leaders for the academic year 2007-2008. Leaders are expected to conduct activities that foster entrepreneurial activity at SOM. For a brief summary of the activities conducted by the Club during the year 2006-2007, please see the club website @ http://students.som.yale.edu/clubs/entrepreneurship/index.htm. If you are interested in becoming one of the leaders of the club, please send a brief statement of interest by email to Club-Entrepreneurship@som.yale.edu by midnight, 27 February 2007 (Tuesday).
Yale Entrepreneurial Institute 2007 Summer Fellowship Program : Application Deadline February 25th, 11:59PM. Sponsored by the Yale Entrepreneurial Society, Yale University and the Yale Office of Cooperative Research. Application Deadline FEBRUARY 25th, 11:59PM! Are you are budding entrepreneur? Do you have a great idea on a new business but do not know how to get started? Would you like to get paid to learn how to start your own business? Would you like one-on-one access to the brightest and most successful entrepreneurs in this country? Then read the details below and apply for this opportunity now! The Yale Entrepreneurial Institute Summer Fellowship Program is a selective 10-week summer program based in New Haven for individuals interested in business and entrepreneurship. It is dedicated to connecting the most innovative, driven, and entrepreneurial Yale undergraduate and graduate students with the resources, connections, and guidance needed to start new ventures. Each student will be paid an attractive stipend to pursue the business ideas of his or her choice, gain invaluable business experience, exposure to high-profile speakers and an entrepreneurial education. The application is due on Sunday, February 23 at 11:59PM. Please visit YEI's website at www.yale.edu/yei for the application and more information about this program. If you can envision yourself pursuing an entrepreneurial career, the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute's Summer Fellowship Program is for you. For more information, please visit our Information Session on February 7th, 8-9PM in the Engineering Student Center at Dunham, or check out our website at http://www.yale.edu/yei!
Finding Biotech Success by Studying the Origin of Life - The RNA World Hypothesis and the Transition between Basic Science and Biotech Startup : Thursday, February 22, 7:30pm - Room A-53, School of Management, 135 Prospect Street. Dr. Ronald Breaker, Ph.D., is Yale’s Henry Ford II Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. He is a cofounder of the aptamer therapeutics company Archemix, which has raised over $100M in venture funding. Professor Breaker’s research in riboswitches has led to his founding of Biorelix, which won the Yale Entrepreneurial Society’s Y50k business plan competition in 2005.
Aspiring Entrepreneurs – we need your help! Please join fellow entrepreneurs and those that aspire to be on Wednesday, February 21 to share your thoughts and ideas on how to elevate entrepreneurship at SOM. Your feedback and support will be incorporated into a proposal to Dean Podolny on ways SOM could further support entrepreneurs. Your comments and suggestions will help shape upcoming events! Your support is invaluable. The event will be held on Wednesday, 21 of February, from 5:30 to 6:30PM at room A48.
Starting and Building a Clean Energy & Carbon Company Tuesday, February 20th, 4 PM, School of Management. Room A-30. John Paul Moscarella (SOM '91), Co-founder of Econergy International Corporation. Since its founding as a consulting firm in 1994, Econergy has become a world leader in Carbon Credit generation and the General Manager of a $25.2 million clean energy investment fund in Latin America. Recently, Econergy raised more than $100m on AIM (a market operated by the London Stock Exchange), which it is investing in clean energy projects in Latin America as owner/operator. John Paul has extensive experience as an engineer and financial specialist. His project development experience covers a broad range of technologies such as natural gas combined cycle and cogeneration projects, biomass cogeneration, fuel cells, wind energy and hydroelectric projects. He was also the project manager in the design of the Prototype Carbon Fund for the World Bank. Please join us in a discussion of Entrepreneurship and Carbon Project Finance. Refreshments will be provided. Sponsored by: FES Industrial Environmental Management and Energy, SOM Energy Student Interest Group.
Owning Your Own Business: Beyond the Numbers - The Challenges and Rewards of Business Ownership : Tuesday, Feb. 20, 7:00pm WLH 120. * Where are the Hot Ideas for New Business -- tools for looking at the market. * The Curve Balls -- the obstacles business owners face and ways to overcome them. * John K Inadomi (1897--1979) -- a brief bio on my granddad, an immigrant from Japan who arrived in the US in 1914 with nothing, only to become an entrepreneurial success story. Bio: Ken Inadomi is owner and chairman of CIS, Consolidated Information Services, based in New Jersey. CIS is one of the nation's leading providers of credit and real estate information to the $2.4 trillion residential mortgage industry. Mr. Inadomi joined a distressed CIS in 1992 as a turnaround specialist and succeeded in guiding the operation to profitability within 3 months. Mr. Inadomi continues to be involved in various entrepreneurial start-ups and business turnarounds. His corporate experience includes sales and marketing at HBO and sports programming at Warner Communications. During his formative years he took on every job imaginable including shining shoes, box boy, grocery clerk, snow cone sales, telemarketer, collections manager, and radio DJ. He received degrees from Yale BA '76 and Stanford MBA '80. Please note: prior to the Owning Your Own Business event, a small number of students have the opportunity to join Mr. Inadomi for dinner at around 6pm on Tuesday. Those interested should let Marty know ASAP. Marty.rod@yale.edu
Y50K Networking and Teambuilding : Thursday, February 15th @ 7:30 PM; Naples Pizza (90 Wall Street). Interested in joining a team to enter the Y50K? Have an idea, but want to recruit new members? Just want to chat with your fellow Y50K entrants and size up the competition? Stop by Naples on the 15th to become a part of the Y50K community.
Y50K Optional Executive Summary Deadline : February 13th. We are pleased to announce the seventh annual Y50K Business Plan Competition, which offers $50,000 in grants for new businesses. Visit http://www.yes.yale.edu or email marty.rod@yale.edu for more information.
NY's annual VC Outlook 2007 : youngStartup Ventures and Heller Ehrman Venture Law Group invite you to attend NY's annual VC Outlook on February 13th, 2007. Join leading Corporate VCs, Investment Bankers, Venture Capitalists, Angel Investors, and chief executives of emerging companies at the New York’s annual VC Outlook presented by youngStartup Ventures, being held on Tuesday, February 13th at the offices of Heller Ehrman in New York City. This year’s forum will feature a distinguished lineup of early stage VCs who will share their criteria for funding deals in 2007, their insights on where the venture industry is heading and suggestions for emerging companies. For complete details visit: http://www.youngstartup.com/VC-Outlook/index.php.
Yale Entrepreneurial Institute 2007 Summer Fellowship Program : Information Session: February 7th, 8-9PM, Engineering Student Center.
A Panel Discussion on University-Based Startups When: Thursday, February 1, 2007 (6pm - Reception, 7pm - Panel, 8pm - Cocktails). Where: Goodwin Procter, Exchange Place, 53 State Street, Boston, MA. The Yale Entrepreneurial Society and Goodwin Procter invite you to meet with Yale students and alumni and members of the Boston-area business and technology communities for an evening of networking and a panel discussion on university-based startups. Our panel features several prominent guests from both the Yale and Boston communities who will share their experience and knowledge about university-based startups from a variety of perspectives. Panelists: 1. Alex Laats - President of BBN Delta and the CEO of Podzinger, former licensing officer in the MIT Technology Licensing Office, and founder of NBX, a company based on MIT-licensed technology and acquired by 3Com. 2. Micah Rosenbloom - Cofounder and COO of Brontes Technologies (recently acquired by 3M), an MIT "spin-out" venture that is developing a revolutionary 3D imaging system for dentists. Alan Gordon - Director of Business Development at the Harvard Office of Technology and former technology licensing officer at MIT. 3. James G. Boyle - Associate Director of the Yale Office for Cooperative Research and former VP of Technology Development at Analytica, a Yale spin-off developing proteomics technology. 4. Jim Millar - General Partner at venture-capital firms Battelle Ventures and Innovation Valley Partners as well as former manager of Texas Instruments' domestic regional technology centers. Moderator: Kingsley Taft, Partner at Goodwin Procter. Please pre-register online at http://www.eventbrite.com/event/42925391 by January 25, 2007. Questions? Email yesboston@gmail.com.