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Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Fwd: 2010 Rice Business Plan Competition

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Lea.A.Lueck <Lea.A.Lueck@rice.edu>
Date: Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 5:39 PM
Subject: 2010 Rice Business Plan Competition
To: hwr2@duke.edu

2010 Logo with blue and green.png

Important Deadlines

Friday, February 5, 2010

5:00 pm CST

Intent to Compete Due

Friday, February 26, 2010

5:00 pm CST

Executive Summaries Due

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Qualifying Teams Announced

Friday, March 15, 2010

Teams Confirm Participation

Friday, March 19, 2010

5:00 pm CST

Written Business Plans Due

April 15-17, 2010

Competition Held
Rice University, Houston, TX

Schools may submit an unlimited number of entries, but a maximum of 2 teams per school will be invited to compete, as selected by the RBPC.

There is no cost to apply to or to compete.

For more information

Contact:

Lea Aden Lueck

RBPC Director

lalueck@rice.edu

713.348.3190

www.alliance.rice.edu/rbpc

April 15-17, 2010

More than $800,000 in

CASH and PRIZES

42 of the top MBA and graduate schools from around the world will compete at Rice University in Houston for more than $800,000 in prizes.

• $325,000 Grand Prize – including

Ø $125,000 equity investment from The GOOSE Society of Texas

Ø $100,000 investment sponsored by Opportunity Houston and Greater Houston Partnership

Ø $20,000 cash sponsored by Kenda Capital and Shell

Ø $80,000 + in-kind services

Ø Ringing the bell at NASDAQ in New York City

• EVERY team accepted into the Rice competition is guaranteed to win at least one cash prize

• More than $600,000 in total cash prizes, plus $200,000 in services awarded

Special Cash Prize Categories include:

• $100,000 Life Science Investment prize

• $100,000 Technology Investment prize

• $100,000 Tech Transfer Investment prize

• $50,000 NASA Commercial Space Innovation award

• $20,000 NASA Life Science Innovation award

• $20,000 NASA Engineering Innovation awards (2)

• $10,000 Social Venture award

• $5,000 Sustainability award

• $2,500 Information Technology award

• $2,500 Energy/Clean Technology award

• $2,500 Medical Device award

• $2,500 Life Science award

• $2,500 Nanotechnology award

• $2,500 Intellectual Property award

• $2,500 Hispanic Business Plan award

• $2,500 International Team award

To learn more about these prizes, please visit our website and review the 2010 Official Rules Document – Guidelines for Prizes.

Don't miss your opportunity to compete at the World's Richest and Largest Business Plan Competition!

Click here to submit your Intent to compete and receive your free copy of Business Plan Pro from Palo Alto Software.

The Rice Business Plan Competition is hosted by the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship and the Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University and is open to all graduate students from any university.

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Managing Director, Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
Office A236
919-617-1123 mobile

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Fwd: Business Plan Competition Best of Biotech 2010 awards ~ USD 65,000

For those with medical technology ideas.

Howie

Begin forwarded message:

From: Philipp Marxgut <scientist@ostina.org>
Date: January 13, 2010 10:31:32 AM EST
To: Larry Moneta <larry.moneta@duke.edu>
Subject: Business Plan Competition Best of Biotech 2010 awards ~ USD 65,000
Reply-To: scientist@ostina.org

Dear Dr. Moneta,

The Office of Science & Technology (http://www.ostina.org ) at the
Embassy of Austria in Washington, DC, would like to draw your attention
to the 'Best of Biotech - get your business started' (BOB) announcement
of the Austria Wirtschaftsservice that might be of interest to your
faculty or students:

BOB is awarding a total of EUR 44,500 (~ USD 65,000) for the best
business plans, the best medical technology business plan and the best
three business ideas in 2010. It is open to individuals and teams from
all countries. The official language of the competition is English.

Students, post-graduates, experienced scientists and other creative
individuals who wish to translate their promising and marketable life
science innovation into a business idea and a professional business
plan are encouraged to participate.

Registration for Phase 1 is open February 1 - 22, 2010
(http://www.bestofbiotech.at/competition/schedule/ ).

Further information on BOB and on registration procedures and project
phases is available at http://www.bestofbiotech.at/ .

The BOB team is glad to answer any questions you may have at
bob@bestofbiotech.at .

The international life science business plan competition BOB is
organized by Life Science Austria (LISA), a program run by the Austria
Wirtschaftsservice on behalf of the Austrian Federal Ministry for
Economy, Family and Youth.

We hope that this announcement is of interest to your faculty and their
students.

With best regards,

Philipp Marxgut

--
Philipp Marxgut
Director & Attaché for Science and Technology

Office of Science & Technology
Embassy of Austria

3524 International Court, NW
Washington, DC 20008-3027 USA

Tel:    +1 (202)895-6754
Fax:    +1 (202)895-6750
URL:    http://ostina.org

bridges - The OST's Magazine on S&T Policy
http://bridges.ostina.org

OST Scientist Network
http://www.ostina.org/scientists

E-Mail Disclaimer OST
http://www.ostina.org/downloads/pdfs/Email_Disclaimer_OST.pdf

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Fwd: FW: More innovation competition opportunities!

Wireless Innovation Project.

From: Barksdale, Stephanie B
Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 10:08 AM
To: 'socent-L@tulane.edu'
Subject: More innovation competition opportunities!

Please feel free to pass on this info and good luck!! Deadline is Feb 1^st, 2010 and you can win up to $300,000!!!

Wireless Innovation Project™

The Vodafone Americas Foundation™ designed the Wireless Innovation Project™ as a competition to promote innovation and increase implementation of wireless related technology for a better world. To that end, Vodafone Americas Foundation's Wireless Innovation Project™ is providing up to $600,000 in awards to support projects of exceptional promise that meet the criteria described in the Eligibility Criteria section. After successful completion of the Project last year, we are excited to launch the second Vodafone Wireless Innovation Project™. We will be accepting proposals from October 5, 2009 through February 1, 2010.

Best,

Stephanie Barksdale

Special Assistant to the President

Social Entrepreneurship Initiatives

Tulane University

(504) 862-3361

http://tulane.edu/socialentrepreneurship/

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Fwd: First Round of Presenting Companies Announced

This is a good place to find companies that might be interesting internship opportunities.

Howie

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Southeast Venture Conference <mailer@seventure.org>
Date: Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 12:05 PM
Subject: First Round of Presenting Companies Announced
To: howrhee@alum.mit.edu


Register to Attend Become a Sponsor Reserve your Hotel Presented by:	First Round of Presenting Companies Announced for 2010 Southeast Venture Conference The 2010 Southeast Venture Conference (SEVC) today announced the first round of companies selected to present at its upcoming conference scheduled for February 24-25th at the Ritz-Carlton in Tysons Corner, Virginia. An expected 60 showcase companies from the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic regions will present at SEVC 2010. Showcase companies will range from the NASDAQ sponsored late stage showcase firms to earlier stage high growth firms. The presenting companies highlight the present and future of the innovation economy, representing some of the most promising technologies in the region from a diverse range of technology industries, including energy, clean tech, mobile, IT, med tech, security, defense and Internet among others. SEVC 2010 showcase companies will present to a national audience of venture capitalists, private equity investors, angel investors, investment bankers and senior technology executives. The first round of announced showcase companies includes: Acumatica - Bethesda, MD, www.acumatica.com Advanced Liquid Logic - RTP, NC, www.liquid-logic.com Blue Nano - Charlotte, NC, www.bluenanoinc.com Box Tone - Columbia, MD, www.boxtone.com Braintech - Washington, DC, www.braintech.com Channel Intelligence - Celebration, FL, www.channelintelligence.com Computable Genomix– Memphis, TN, www.computablegenomix.com Corporate Events Group - Falls Church, VA, www.corpeventsgroup.com CURRENT Group - Germantown, MD, www.currentgroup.com Envisionier Medical Technologies - Woodstock, GA, www.envisionier.com GeneEx - Hialeah, FL, www.geneexinc.com Halo Monitoring - Huntsville, AL, www.halomonitoring.com Heart Imaging Technologies - Durham, NC, www.heartit.com Imbera - Melbourne, FL, www.imbera.biz Kaulkin Information Systems - Rockville, MD, www.kistrack.com Microcell - Raleigh, NC, www.microcellcorp.com New River Innovation - Greensboro, NC, www.newriverinnovation.com Overture Networks - Morrisville, NC, www.overturenetworks.com Semprius - Durham, NC, www.semprius.com Sharklet Technologies - Alachua, FL, www.sharklet.com SciVera - Charlottesville, VA, www.scivera.com StudioNow – Nashville, TN, www.studionow.com Synapse Wireless - Huntsville, AL, www.synapse-wireless.com Twiigg - Reston, VA, www.twiigg.com Vocalocity - Atlanta, GA, www.vocalocity.com YadaHome – Washington, DC, www.yadahome.com "It's a great time for technology companies and venture capital investors to come together," said Steve Keeler, a partner with McGuireWoods and the SEVC 2010 Planning Chair. "Fourth quarter 2009 brought an upswing in venture investor optimism and activity - particularly in IT, health care and clean tech - and other industries that can leverage government stimulus." "With a stabilizing economy, the stock market holding up and talk of a potential reopening of the IPO window, venture funds are telling us that 2010 could be one of the best years ever to invest," added Keeler. In addition to showcase company presentations, the conference will feature a number of market-driven topical panels, featured speakers and exclusive networking opportunities. Current keynotes for SEVC 2010 include Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia; Mark Heesen, President of the National Venture Capital Association and technologist Vint Cerf, currently the Chief Internet Evangelist at Google and often referred to as "Father of the Internet". About Southeast Venture Conference 2010 The Southeast Venture Conference, one of the largest venture capital forums on the east coast, takes place February 24-25th at the Ritz Carlton in Tysons Corner, Virginia. The mission of the SEVC is to help support the innovation and entrepreneurial activity of emerging high growth technology companies and the resulting economic growth in the greater Southeast and Mid-Atlantic regions. As part of that goal, the SEVC understands the importance of investment capital to this equation and provides a key forum to facilitate the infusion of growth to the technology community. The 2010 conference features dozens of presenting companies, venture and entrepreneurial oriented panels, keynotes and numerous networking opportunities. www.seventure.org

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Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Fwd: Triangle Mobile App Panel - Thursday, January 14

Interesting event for those of you interested in Mobile Apps.

Howie

Invitation RSVP link

Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP link

Buckhead Saloon link

Thursday, December 17, 2009

Fwd: 2010 Rice Business Plan Competition APPLY TO COMPETE

A good competition to consider

-Howie

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: RBPC <rbpc@rice.edu>
Date: Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 4:52 PM
Subject: 2010 Rice Business Plan Competition APPLY TO COMPETE
To: hwr2@duke.edu

Important Deadlines

Friday, February 5, 2010

5:00 pm CST

Intent to Compete Due

Friday, February 26, 2010

5:00 pm CST

Executive Summaries Due

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Qualifying Teams Announced

Friday, March 19, 2010

5:00 pm CST

Written Business Plans Due

April 15-17, 2010

Competition Held
Rice University, Houston, TX

For more information

Contact:

Lea Aden Lueck

RBPC Director

lalueck@rice.edu

713.348.3190

www.alliance.rice.edu/rbpc

APPLY TO COMPETE
2010 Rice Business Plan Competition
April 15-17, 2010 – Houston, Texas

42 Teams will be selected to compete for more than $800,000 in cash and prizes

All 42 Teams take home cash!

Meet more than 200 Venture Capital, Angel Investors, Private Equity, and other professionals who serve as competition judges

Dynamics, the 2009 winner from Carnegie Mellon University, was awarded more than $325,000 in cash and prizes

Winner rings the bell at NASDAQ in New York City

Special Cash Prize Categories include:

Clean Technology

Sustainability

Energy
NASA Space Technologies

Information Technology/Web 2.0

Life Sciences/Biotech/Medical Devices

Social Entrepreneurship (including not-for-profit)
Consumer Goods

Since 2001, more than 85 competitors have successfully launched their businesses and raised more than $150 million in capital

Don't miss your opportunity to compete at the World's Richest and Largest Business Plan Competition!

Click here to submit your Intent to compete by February 5, and receive your free copy of Business Plan Pro from Palo Alto Software.

--
Howie Rhee, MBA
Managing Director, Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
919-617-1123 mobile

Learn more about Entrepreneurship at Duke - www.EntrepreneurshipAtDuke.com
and read our Duke Entrepreneurship Manual - www.dukeven.com

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

FW: Microsoft Invites you to Participate in the US Imagine Cup

For those of you with IT ideas - worth considering.

-Howie

I would like to let you know that submissions for the Spring Imagine Cup Competition (www.imaginecup.us) are now open. This competition is the World's premier Technology Business Competition. The first submission, just a business plan, is due February 1^st and the software portion is due March 15. So, now is the perfect time to consider this competition for your class. We've worked hard this year to make this a strong supporting piece of any project based curriculum and have seen some great success in over 30 Universities across the US.

Thank you,

Cy Khormaee

Academic Relations Manager

mobile: 360.931.0893 |Microsoft Corporation –5404 Wisconsin Ave #600, Chevy Chase, MD 20815

Entrepreneurship At Duke Highlights for Fall 2009

Enterpreneurship at Duke Highlights for Fall 2009

In chronological order

Program for Entrepreneurs - Class of 2011(two year program) - 50+ students applied and 70+ startup ideas.

Resulted in 16 startup teams and 80 students involved - 66 Fuqua, 8 non-Fuqua Graduate, 6 Undergraduate

www.dukeven.com

Duke Entrepreneurship Education Series - 11 events, 934 attendees (not including Eweek)

Sessions at Fuqua and Teer, with additional sessions at White Lecture Hall, Law School

www.dukedees.com

Entrepreneurship Week (Nov 16-22)

a) 10th Annual Duke Start-Up Challenge Elevator Pitch Competition with Google Ventures - 9 events, 887 attendees, 74 teams competing

www.dukestartupchallenge.org

b) Duke Global Entrepreneurship Network, Happy Hour in 10 cities - 10 events, 225 attendees

www.dukegen.com/events

DukeGEN Update (as of Dec 16)

1500+ members (alumni and students)
www.dukegen.com

Entrepreneurship At Duke website

Updated 12/2009

www.entrepreneurshipatduke.com

Howie

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Internship for next summer

Posting from first year student Aris Baras.

-Howie

Internships at Palaran - a hot, stealth, web startup!

Palaran (http://palaran.com) is a VC-backed stealth startup, with investors that include Om Malik, Esther Dyson and Joshua Schachter. We are ex-Google and ex-Yahoo Web Search engineers and designers and have been covered by TechCrunch (http://j.mp/palaran) and paidContent - but even they don't know what we're doing... yet. The only real way to know what's going on here is to come talk with us - and even better, to join us for the ride!

You'd need to be off-the-charts brilliant to keep up with the team, so that's kind of a requirement. If you buy as much stuff on ThinkGeek as you do on Amazon, we're intrigued! If you made a touch sensitive robot to play games on the iPhone, that's also good. If you have a strong opinion about string theory, multiverses, or the upcoming singularity, you'd also qualify. And if you do know what I'm talking about, read on.

We are taking a science-based, engineering-driven approach to an industry that has so far been more art, more trial-and-error, than real technology. We're big believers in big data, algorithms and scalable large-scale systems (we helped build Yahoo! Web Search, after all). We do have a big vision we're chasing, but we also have our monetization model down pat - we'll be making money as we build our business. That's good stuff.

Work-wise, there's a lot of Java going on, with a lot of open source code, components and infrastructure. Databases are used, sure; cloud-hosted on Amazon, certainly; mappin' and reducin'... maybe. As an intern, you will be playing with a lot of interesting technologies, writing lots of code, and devising efficient solutions to complicated problems.

So if your veins ache for that startup adrenaline, and you really need to be working with the best, this is just the place for you. Send your resume, and links to your previous work, to jobs@palaran.com<mailto:jobs@palaran.com> - operators are standing by!

Fwd: Presenting Company Application Deadline Extended Until Monday

For any of you that would like a good showcase for your startup idea, this is a good venue.

Howie

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From: Southeast Venture Conference <mailer@seventure.org>
Date: Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:54 PM
Subject: Presenting Company Application Deadline Extended Until Monday
To: howrhee@alum.mit.edu


Register to Attend Become a Sponsor Reserve your Hotel Presented by:	Deadline Extended Until Monday for Presenting Companies to Apply Companies: Apply by December 21st for consideration The 2009 Southeast Venture Conference (SEVC) has extended the deadline for presenting company applications until next Monday, December 21st. The 4th annual event is scheduled for February 24-25, 2010 at the Ritz Carlton in Tysons Corner, Virginia. The conference is seeking high growth, innovative companies from a vast variety of technology industries including Clean-Tech, Energy, Software, Communications, Medical Devices, Information Technology, Life Sciences, Nanotech, Mobile, Internet and Defense among others. The conference will feature a wide range of presenting companies, from late stage Pre-IPO firms to younger high growth technology companies. The Southeast Venture Conference is expected to feature dozens of the region's top high growth private companies. Presenting companies will be showcased before a regional and national audience of venture capitalists, private equity investors, angel investors, investment bankers, entrepreneurs and the technology industry executives. Presenting companies will be headquartered or have a significant presence in the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic region. Additional details on presenting or registration information can be found at www.seventure.org. A list of presenters at the past three events can be found here. Over the three previous events, the Southeast Venture Conference has sold out each year, while showcasing dozens of the region's fastest growing companies to an audience representing over $150 billion in private equity. About Southeast Venture Conference 2010 The mission of the SEVC is to help support the innovation and entrepreneurial activity of emerging high growth technology companies and the resulting economic growth in the greater Southeast and Mid-Atlantic regions. As part of that goal, the SEVC understands the importance of investment capital to this equation and provides a key forum to facilitate the infusion of growth to the technology community. The SEVC not only showcases top regional technology companies, but provides unparalleled networking opportunities among the region's technology and investment leaders while providing insightful content through dozens of industry speakers. www.seventure.org

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Monday, December 14, 2009

Fwd: WeMedia PitchIt! Challenge $25,000 for media for a better world

For those of you with media ideas.

Howie

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Sarah Mintz <smintz@ashoka.org>
Date: Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 9:08 PM
Subject: WeMedia PitchIt! Challenge $25,000 for media for a better world
To: hwr2@duke.edu

Dear Howie,

Your Idea could Win You $25,000

Ashoka's Changemakers and We Media have launched our second annual We Media PitchIt! Challenge – we are looking for the best new ideas (early stage ventures) that are working to help create a better world through media.

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

10th Annual Duke Start-Up Challenge Announces Winners of Elevator Pitch Competition

10th Annual Duke Start-Up Challenge Announces Winners of Elevator Pitch Competition

Judges, led by Google's Bill Maris, select Biogenic Medical Devices and the audience selects The Produce Purity Project from 74 original contenders

Watch the video of the entire event at www.dukestartupchallenge.org

December 8, 2009 (Durham, NC.) - The 10th Annual Duke Start-Up Challenge, the premiere entrepreneurship competition at Duke University, announced today that Biogenic Medical Devices, led by Garrett Muramoto (MBA'11), took home the Judge's Choice award of $1000 and The Produce Purity Project, led by Stephanie Fruth (MBA'11), won the Audience Choice award of $250 and a special gift of $500 from lead judge Bill Maris, Co-Founder of Google Ventures. A standing room only crowd of more than 500 packed Geneen Auditorium for the Elevator Pitch Competition Final showdown on Friday November 20 where 14 teams pitched and the winners took home the prize money. The event was broadcast live on the Internet and is now available on the Duke Start-Up Challenge website at www.dukestartupchallenge.org&nbsp ;

Lead judge Bill Maris, of Google Ventures, summarized the night well when he said, "I go to a lot of these, mostly in Silicon Valley. This is probably the single best one that I've ever participated in."
The 10th Annual Duke Start-Up Challenge Elevator Pitch Competition, part of Dukes celebration of Entrepreneurship Week from November 16 to 20, brought together students from many of Duke University's schools to deliver two-minute pitches to panels of judges and live audience members. The judges determined a Judge's Choice winner, while the audience, voting via SMS text messaging on their mobile phones (similar to American Idol), determined an Audience Choice winner from each of seven competition tracks.

Throughout the week, there were 7 semi-finals pitch competitions with 74 Duke start-up teams competing for one of 14 spots in the Finals Event. A total of 38 undergraduate startup teams competed in the competition. The Fuqua School of Business entered 20 student startup teams, and other teams represented the Pratt Master of Engineering Management Program, the Duke School of Law, the Duke Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, the Graduate School, and the Divinity School. Even the Duke Blue Devil made a cameo appearance at the Finals event to make his pitch – "Free Duke Start-Up Challenge T-Shirts". Two new competition tracks were added this year – Women Entrepreneurs and Energy & Environment – to address the growing diversity of interests and participation across Duke. Close to $6,000 in cash and prizes were awarded at the competition this year.

Win or lose, every student who participated learned a tremendous amount about how to start a business and attract investors, skills that will serve them well when they leave school for the real world. "The Duke Start-Up Challenge has been a great way to gain valuable feedback on our business idea, and meet contacts who will be great resources in the future. Especially for us undergraduates who don't receive as much business exposure, the Elevator Pitch Competition has provided us experience presenting to potential investors, and will prove invaluable to our entrepreneurial education" said Daniel Certner '10, an undergraduate who participated in the competition.

Duke's participation in its third Entrepreneurship Week was a tremendous success, a reflection of the rising interest in entrepreneurship within the greater Duke community. Led by the Kauffman Foundation, Global Entrepreneurship Week is a world-wide initiative during which millions of young people around the world participate in activities aimed to help them explore their potential as self-starters and innovators. The week included thousands of events in over 70 countries around the world.

Duke's strong alumni network also had a role in celebrating Entrepreneurship Week. The Duke Global Entrepreneurship Network (DukeGEN) hosted entrepreneur networking happy hour events for alumni in cities around the world, including Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Chicago, London, Los Angeles, Sunnyvale, and San Francisco. Local alumni from Research Triangle Park (RTP) combined their entrepreneur networking happy hour with the Finals event on November 20.

To see a video recording of the finals of the Duke Start-Up Challenge Elevator Pitch Competition, visit www.dukestartupchallenge.org. If you were inspired in some way during the week to explore your potential as an entrepreneur or if you're looking for ways to get involved at Duke, please explore www.dukestartupchallenge.org and www.dukegen.com
Finally, keep an eye out for the Duke Start-Up Challenge events coming up next year – the Executive Summary Competition in January and the Final Business Plan Competition in April – as teams compete for the $25,000 grand prize.

###

Contact:

Steven Pal (MBA'10)
Co-President of the Duke Start-Up Challenge and Student Co-Chair of Duke Entrepreneurship Week
steven.pal@fuqua.duke.edu

Howie Rhee
Co-Advisor
10th Annual Duke Start-Up Challenge
919-617-1123 or media@dukegen.com

About the 10th Annual Duke Start-Up Challenge

The Duke Start-Up Challenge entrepreneurship competition runs throughout the academic year, from November to April. The competition includes an Elevator Pitch Competition in November, an Executive Summary Competition in January, and a live Finals Event in April, with multiple teams winning cash and prizes throughout the competition for the best submissions. The prizes are awarded to overall best plan/presentation and best submission in each of several categories (e.g. Energy & Environment, Healthcare & Life Sciences, Products & Services, and Social Entrepreneurship). Additionally, teams are provided with feedback from knowledgeable judges along the way to help with further development of the business concept into the next part of the Duke Start-Up Challenge and beyond. Founded in 1999 by an ambitious group of Duke students, the competition is now celebrating its 10th year of operation. More information at www.dukestartupchallenge.org <http://www.dukestartupchallenge.org> and follow @dukestartupchal on Twitter.

About Global Entrepreneurship Week

With the goal to inspire young people to embrace innovation, imagination and creativity, Global Entrepreneurship Week will encourage youth to think big, turn their ideas into reality, and make their mark. During the week of November 16 - 22, 2009, millions of young people around the world will join a growing movement to generate new ideas and seek better ways of doing things. Tens of thousands of activities are being planned in dozens of countries. Global Entrepreneurship Week is founded by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and the Make Your Mark campaign. For more information, visit www.unleashingideas.org <http://www.unleashingideas.org>.

About DukeGEN

DukeGEN is a sophisticated and active network that helps create debate, dialogue, and lucky encounters between Duke entrepreneurs. We provide the energy and coordination to encourage Duke entrepreneurs, around the globe, to connect and increase their chances of success. More information at www.dukegen.com <http://www.dukegen.com> and follow @DukeGEN on Twitter.

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Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Transloc hiring web developers

Transloc is a cool transit visualization company (imagine seeing buses on a Google Map, so you know when they'll arrive). Fuqua alum Josh Cohen works there. Here's a note from Josh:

We are looking for two more developers (a software engineer and a mobile application developer). More details here. I don't know many developers myself and perhaps you don't either, but you never know! Please feel free to send anyone you think may be interested, or who may know someone who would be interested, our way.

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Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
Room E167J
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Duke Entrepreneurship Links:
- Entrepreneurship at Duke - www.EntrepreneurshipAtDuke.com
- A Duke Resource for Entrepreneurs: www.dukeVEN.com
- Weekly Education Series - www.dukeDEES.com
- Connect with Duke Entrepreneurs - www.dukegen.com
- Find a startup - www.startupmatchmaker.blogspot.com
- Duke Start-Up Challenge - www.dukestartupchallenge.org
- Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Club - www.dukeevcc.com
- Twitter - http://twitter.com/EshipAtDuke
- Entering the Duke Start-Up Challenge? See example business plans - email me for a copy of Business Plan Pro (advert)

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Fwd: Intent To Compete Requested Next Week - University of San Francisco Business Plan Competition

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Date: Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 9:00 PM
Subject: Intent To Compete Requested ** Next Week ** - University of San Francisco Business Plan Competition
To: bbonthron@usfca.edu, cannice@usfca.edu, csbaradello@usfca.edu

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Intent To Compete Requested ** Next Week ** - University of San Francisco Business Plan Competition

Dear Faculty and Entrepreneurship Program Directors,

Please consider submitting a highly qualified, venture capital ready team to the 2010 USF Business Plan Competition to be held March 25th-26th in San Francisco.

A brief (150 words or less) non-binding Intent to Compete is due December 1st. This submission enables the contest team and our Venture Capitalist review committee to better understand the level of interest from teams and Universities.

New this year:

- Keynote by Geoffrey Moore - Partner Mohr Davidow Ventures; Managing Director, TCG Advisors

o Geoffrey Moore is a best-selling author, and is widely recognized for his expertise in market development and business and investment strategies. He serves as an advisor to many of MDV's portfolio companies, is the founder of The Chasm Group, and a Managing Director of TCG Advisors.
Geoffrey has made the understanding and effective exploitation of disruptive technologies the core of his life's work. His books, Crossing the Chasm, Inside the Tornado, The Gorilla Game, Living on the Fault Line, and Dealing with Darwin are best sellers and required reading at leading business schools.

- Venture Capitalist & Angel Investor panel discussion moderated by Geoffrey Moore

- Morning of practical workshops given by Silicon Valley Venture Practitioners - subjects may include IP protection, raising VC funds, attracting Angel funding, pitching and developing "Silicon Valley grade" business plans

- Expanding to 24 Teams - more opportunity!

And, of course, no change to our unparalleled access to Silicon Valley and its unique culture.

Improve your student's experience and their chances of success.

Businesses Start Here

Questions: usfbplan@usfca.edu <mailto:usfbplan@usfca.edu>

Register online - Intent to Compete <http://web.usfca.edu/templates/bps_international.aspx?id=2147490313>

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VC Class from Bill Brown

From our friend Bill Brown in the Law School:

It occurred to me that some of the students might be interested in a class I am teaching next semester. Mergers & Acquisitions: Venture Capital, Private Equity and Entrepreneurship. http://www.law.duke.edu/curriculum/courseinfo/course?id=247 It is MW 1:30-2:50. We will use case studies that will focus on the business, finance, tax, corporate and IP matters relating to

--Start-Ups

--VC rounds

--Buy-outs of mature companies/divisions

--Roll-ups (consolidating fragmented industries)

--Financing over-leveraged/troubled companies

--Exit strategies

--Management compensation

Syllabus from last year is attached.

I currently have a couple of Fuqua students enrolled and would welcome other interested students.

Again, congratulations!

Best regards,

Bill

Bill Brown

DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW

Science Drive and Towerview Road

Box 90360

Durham, NC 27708-0360

919 613-8517

Monday, November 9, 2009

Fwd: $20,000 grants from NCIIA for student technology projects

Grant money available to student startups. Thanks to Barry for forwarding

-Howie

-------- Original Message --------

Subject:	$20,000 grants from NCIIA for student technology projects
Resent-Date:	Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:46:24 -0500
Resent-From:	bsm@duke.edu
Date:	Thu, 5 Nov 2009 16:46:22 -0500
From:	Rachel Agoglia <ragoglia@nciia.org>
To:	<barry.myers@duke.edu>, <april.brown@duke.edu>

Dear Barry and April,

I hope this email finds you well.

As a recent recipient of NCIIA sponsorship funds, I would like to encourage you to share this opportunity for Advanced E-Team funding with your network.

NCIIA's Advanced E-Team grants deadline is just 4 weeks away, on Friday, December 4.

Advanced E-Team grants fund up to $20,000 to help student teams take their innovative ideas out of the classroom and/or lab to prototype, and eventually to market. Students can leverage NCIIA funds to launch a venture if their idea includes technological innovation, commercial potential, and positive social impact. Teams must be comprised of at least two graduate or undergraduate students, and a faculty advisor.

Here are some helpful links:

Advanced E-Team Grant Information: http://nciia.org/grants/eteam

Grant Guidelines: http://nciia.org/grants/eteam/guidelines

Please include information about this grant opportunity in any upcoming bulletins, newsletters, and forums and help us get the word out to any students you know who are developing innovative technologies! We'd welcome the opportunity to review proposal abstracts or have conversations with anyone who might be interested in applying.

All the best,

Rachel

Rachel Agoglia

Grants Coordinator

NCIIA

100 Venture Way

Hadley, MA 01035

413-587-2172 (p)

413-587-2175 (f)

ragoglia@nciia.org

www.nciia.org

--  Barry Myers MD PhD MBA  Prof. & Sr. Assoc. Dean Pratt School of Engineering Director Duke Center for Entrepreneurship, www.cerc.duke.edu Associate Director of Emerging Programs, DTRI  Rm 267 Hudson Engineering Annex Box 90281, Durham NC 27708-0281 (919) 660-5150 (o) (919) 684-4488 (fax)