Entrepreneurial Business Planning Class – FES Information Session: Information session on the Entrepreneurial Business Planning Class on Tuesday, October 2 (12 Noon – 1 PM) on the first floor of 230 Prospect. Please plan to attend this session if you are looking to partner with FES teams.
MIT Elevator Pitch Contest: This event will be held on Saturday, Oct 13th 2007 at the Kirsch Auditorium in the Stata Center (32-123) on the MIT Campus.The $10K Elevator Pitch Contest (EPC) is a new strategic component to the traditional $1k and MIT $100k, the world’s preeminent business plan competition. The EPC aims to help budding entrepreneurs from the student, business and scientific communities build stronger business pitching skills. The EPC will facilitate the formation of quality teams, further develop the entrepreneurial network in the Northeast, and provide entrepreneurs feedback from industry professionals at an early stage. The Elevator Pitch Contest is the first step in the ladder that leads up to the $100k Competition. If you have the next great idea and want to benefit from an incredible network of entrepreneurs, you need to come to this event. The registration deadline is midnight October 6, 2007. Please visit http://www.mitepc.com to register your idea and to learn more about the competition.
Business Planning Mixer: Are you the next Gates, Dell, Zuckerberg, or kiva.com? Monday, October 8th 2007. 4:30 – 5:30 p.m. Yale School of Management, Room A74. The ‘Unofficial’ Cromwell (MGT 618) & ‘Official’ Global Social Venture Competition (GSVC) Business Plan Mixer: Who should attend? You have a business idea and want to recruit team members OR are interested in joining/forming a team OR just want to meet entrepreneurs at Yale. *If you have a business idea, email one PowerPoint slide that describes your concept to megan.baehrens@yale.edu by this Friday, 10/5, at noon. At the mixer, you will have a timed TWO minutes to pitch to the group. If you have any questions, feel free to contact megan.baehrens@yale.edu or uday.gupta@yale.edu. Brought to you by The Yale School of Management Entrepreneurship Club and the Global Social Venture Competition.
YES Event: Master’s Tea with former YES speaker, Donna Dubinsky: Tuesday, October 9th, 4pm. New Residence Hall (swing dorm), 100 Tower Parkway. Jonathan Edwards College is hosting a Master’s Tea with Donna Dubinsky, a member of the Yale Corporation and the former CEO of Palm Computing. The tea will be of interest to many of the members of YES interested consumer and computer electronics.
Babson College 6th Annual Forum on Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Friday, October 12 2007. Babson College, wellesley, MA. Get inspired by successful entrepreneurs. Learn how to spark innovation in yourself & others. Explore how to turn your big idea into reality. Check out http:www.babsonfei.Com for more details.
Breakfast with Entrepreneur, Venture Capitalist, and Environmental Visionary Vinod Khosla: This Sunday the 14th of October The Center for Business and Environment at Yale is planning to host a Sunday morning conversation with Vinod Khosla, the founder of Sun Microsystems and Khosla Ventures. Vinod has been a very outspoken leader about clean energy, energy independence, and climate change. You are invited for breakfast in the Steinbach Lounge at 52 Hillhouse Avenue at 8:30 am to be followed by an informal talk with Vinod Khosla at 9:30 am. Please RSVP to Amy Badner at amy.badner@yale.edu by 3:00 pm tomorrow Friday, October 12th if you would like to attend.
Effective Business Planning: Monday, October 15, 2007, Room A-53, 11:45-12:45. Global Social Venture Competition, supported by Yale SOM Net Impact & SOM Program on Social Enterprise presents “Effective Business Planning” with Maureen Burke of the Entrepreneurial Business Planning Class (“The Cromwell Class”), Yale SOM & FES. Idea generation, Team building, Key components of a business plan, Q&A session. Questions? Email gsvc-info@yale.edu.
Film Producer Robert Simonds, Next Leaders Forum Speaker: Tuesday, October 16, 2007. Robert Simonds YC ’85, founder and film producer of The Robert Simonds Company, will give the next Leaders Forum talk, to be held from 11:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. in the General Motors Room, 55 Hillhouse Avenue. We will host a small luncheon following his talk in Steinbach Lounge from 1:00pm to 2:15pm. Eight students will be selected by lottery to attend the lunch. Interested students are invited to sign-up for the luncheon via reply email to me by Noon on Monday, October 8. If you are selected, you will be notified by email. Before responding, please make certain you are able to commit and be prepared to engage in a lively discussion. Mr. Simonds is one of Hollywood’s most prolific and profitable producers of motion picture comedies. His over 30 features have generated in excess of $3.5 billion in worldwide revenue. Simonds focuses on two distinct demographic markets. The high-concept teen movie is a genre he has dominated for over a decade, with films such as The WaterBoy; Just Married; and Big Daddy. He also focuses on modestly budgeted family films such as Cheaper by the Dozen; Yours, Mine and Ours; Herbie Fully Loaded; and The Pink Panther. Simonds serves on the School’s Board of Advisors. He graduated summa cum laude from Yale with a degree in philosophy.
Y2K Kickoff : Tuesday, October 16th, 7:30pm-8:30pm, LC 102. We are pleased to announce the fifth annual Y2K Business Plan Competition, which offers $2,400 in grants for new businesses, automatic qualification into the CTT Innovation Conference 2008, automatic eligibility for final round interviews in the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute, as well as feedback from high caliber industry judges. Come learn about YES's fall semester entrepreneurship competition, the Y2K. Speak with former Y2K winners, hear about the upcoming schedule of events, and pick up the contestant entry kit. Visit www.yes.yale.edu or email joseph.walker@yale.edu for more information.
Innovation at Apple & iPod Marketing: Join Stan Ng, Senior Director of WorldWide iPod Product Marketing for a discussion about the Apple Innovation story and recruitment opportunities at Apple. Date: Wednesday, October 17. Time: 7:00-9:00 P.M. Location: OML 202. Space for this program is extremely limited, students must RSVP on Career Center by Monday, October 15.
YES Speaker Series – Forest Krutter: Secretary, senior VP, and general counsel for Berkshire Hathaway. Thursday, October 18th – 7:30pm. Room: Branford Common Room. Come hear Mr. Krutter speak on investing and about some of Berkshire's history and future plans!
JPMorgan Good Venture Competition: Now officially open for registration. Registration deadline is October 19, 2007. The Finals will take place December 6-7, 2007. For more information about the competition and to register, go to http://www.jpmorgan.com/goodventure.
2007 Life Sciences & Healthcare Venture Summit: Tuesday, October 23 2007, New York City. If you are an emerging biotech, med tech, healthcare or life sciences startup seeking early stage funding, The 2007 Life Sciences & Healthcare Venture Summit provides an opportunity for startups to meet, network and showcase their innovative investment opportunities to leading groups of investors - Presented by youngStartup Ventures. You can find more details at http://www.youngstartup.com/lifesciences07/index.php.
Yale BioHaven Entrepreneurship Series: Presented by CURE and Yale OCR. Wednesday, October 24th, 2007. BioRelix Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Followed by networking, refreshments & wine bar. BioRelix is a new company developing antibiotics that target microbial RNA. As the Yale BioHaven Entrepreneurship Series opens its third season, two of the key players at BioRelix, founder Ronald Breaker, Ph.D., and interim CEO Ronald W Lennox, D. Phil., will explain the company's technology and business strategy. Long recognized as reliable drugs, antibiotics have become a $30 billion per year industry. But patents for many antibiotics will expire in the next few years, and all classes of antibiotics are encountering wide-spread resistance from the bacterial pathogens at which they are aimed. BioRelix owns a world-wide license to develop and market RiboSwitch™-target antibiotics. "RiboSwitches™" are short stretches of messenger RNA that bind small metabolites and control genes that are essential for the survival of many disease-causing microbes. Each class of RiboSwitch™ could potentially serve as a novel antibacterial drug target. In June of 2007, BioRelix raised almost $26 million in a first funding round. Location: The Anlyan Center auditorium, Yale Medical School. Directions & Parking: http://info.med.yale.edu/maps/cab.html. RSVP: Registration is free, but please RSVP in advance. E-mail to biohaven@yale.edu or call the Yale OCR main number: 203-785-6209.
YBPS event: "CEO-IP: Doing Good and Profiting From Your Creativity": Time: 11:45 am - 12:45 pm, 10/26/07, Room A-48. A special event on using IP law to maximize the potential of your research. In this first lecture, Mr. Kalow will give a framework introduction to intellectual property and lay the basis for profiting from intellectual property. Biography: Mr. Kalow is a partner in the New York law firm of Kalow & Springut with wide ranging experience representing scientists and academic institutions helping them to maximize the commercial value of their discoveries. We expect this event to be of interest to both scientists and law students with an interest in IP. Lunch will be served. Please RSVP to Charmaine Chan at chikio.chan@yale.edu.
Y2K Entrepreneurship Competition - First Team-builder Event: Thursday, 10/25, 7:00-8:30pm, BAR, 254 Crown Street. Recruit new team members, join an existing team, and share business ideas over pizza.
SOM Entrepreneurship Club Speaker Series - Charles Scott (Investment Manager, Intel Capital): Monday, October 29 2007, 11:30 AM, A-51. See Speaker Series link above for speaker bio.
SOM Entrepreneurship Club Speaker Series - Abhi Shah (CEO, JuriMatrix): Tuesday, October 30 2007, 11:30 AM, A-51. See Speaker Series link above for speaker bio.
YLBS event - Entrepreneurship Challenge Kickoff Event: 5 pm, Wednesday, October 31, SLB Room 129. A number of generous Yale Law School alumni have teamed up with YLBS to bring you the Entrepreneurship Challenge (EC), a venture capital program that will allow YLS students and their partners to start businesses while still in law school. Mark Gerson YLS ’98, Chairman of Gerson Lehrman Group and the primary sponsor of EC, will talk about why he decided to start a business after law school, how the EC program is structured, and why YLS students often make successful entrepreneurs. All venture teams must include at least one current law student.
2008 Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition (GSEC) - University of Washington: February 25-29, 2008. University of Washington, Seattle, USA. Application deadline October 31, 2007. GSEC is a business plan competition in which students from around the world create commercially sustainable businesses that address problems of poverty in the developing world. You can find more details at http://bschool.washington.edu/gsec/.