If you have a green idea, which you want to bring out from an academic lab and bounce it off some entrepreneurs, angles and VCs, then GTEA is the place to be. This is one of the best workshops where you meet many like minded individuals, learn the ropes of entrepreneurship from the very basics in an intense 1 week program and get to meet with several angles and VCs face to face and see it from their perspective. With the sponsorship and the excellent organization they provide, if you are an early stage entrepreneur you can not have a better week working on your idea. So read the information below and apply right away with the simple online application. Get the kick start you need. Good luck!
Green Technology Entrepreneurship Academy
June 28 - July 2, 2010 @ the Tahoe Center for Environmental Science
Lake Tahoe, Nevada
Moving Sustainable Technologies Out of the Lab and into the World
The one-week intensive academy is open to science and engineering senior undergraduates, graduate students, post-doctoral researchers and faculty working on research in green technologies. The academy combines seminars and networking sessions in an innovative format to help you learn how to commercialize your technology.
Why You Should Attend:
* learn to communicate the broader potential impact of your research
* explore commercial opportunities surrounding your technology
* develop a network of professionals in clean tech who can help mentor and connect you as you move forward with your career or new venture.
Accepted applicants receive fellowships to cover room, board and tuition. Open to applicants from national and international universities.
It is taught by venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, faculty, industry executives and angel investors from across the country that serve as mentors as well as guest faculty, providing participants with the knowledge and networks needed for taking the next steps toward commercialization. Previous GTEA mentors and faculty included leaders from DFJ Frontier, Element, Mohr Davidow Ventures, DMC, Nth Power, Sierra Angels, Morrison and Foerster, Pillsbury, NIEHS, USDA, National Instruments, NIREC, Pacific Gas & Electric, Sempra Utilities, Edison International, CalCEF Angel Fund, and Chevron Energy Solutions.
Apply online by May 14, 2010 >> http://entrepreneurship.ucdavis.edu/green
Sponsored by Nevada Institute for Renewable Energy (NIREC), Chevron, PG&E and Superfund Research Program. Presented by the UC Davis Center for Entrepreneurship.
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Sunday, May 9, 2010
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
VentureConnect 2010 on April 23, 4PM @ Microsoft NERD
20 university startups (including 2 from TLP Fellows) from VentureLab invite you to VentureConnect2010 on April 23, at 4:00 at Microsoft NERD
VentureConnect2010 is a showcase of university tech startups companies engaged in an intensive 2 week program to accelerate their ventures as part of VentureLab, produced by the National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance with support from Microsoft New England Research and Development Center.
The twenty teams in VentureLab will demonstrate “IGNITE-Style” their innovations and showcase how they’ve accelerated in the VentureLab program over the past 2 weeks. The ventures created by both graduate and undergraduate startups include such diverse areas including solar, security, software and emerging markets ventures.
VentureConnect2010 emerged as an student driven initiative from VentureLab when the student teams were each asked to create a $100 challenge to test entrepreneurial action and ambition.
VentureConnect2010 takes place at Microsoft NERD (http://microsoftcambridge.com/) One Memorial Drive in Cambridge from 4 PM - 6:45 PM on April 23rd. Light appetizers and refreshments will be served!
REGISTER HERE: http://ventureconnect2010.eventbrite.com/
This is a FREE event but please consider a modest donation which will be directed to the student ventures!
Professional Service Providers interested in displaying their organization, please sign up with your contact information so we can communicate directly.
Expected attendees are investors, attorneys, students, entrepreneurs, and press.
REGISTER HERE: http://ventureconnect2010.eventbrite.com/
VentureConnect2010 is a showcase of university tech startups companies engaged in an intensive 2 week program to accelerate their ventures as part of VentureLab, produced by the National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance with support from Microsoft New England Research and Development Center.
The twenty teams in VentureLab will demonstrate “IGNITE-Style” their innovations and showcase how they’ve accelerated in the VentureLab program over the past 2 weeks. The ventures created by both graduate and undergraduate startups include such diverse areas including solar, security, software and emerging markets ventures.
VentureConnect2010 emerged as an student driven initiative from VentureLab when the student teams were each asked to create a $100 challenge to test entrepreneurial action and ambition.
VentureConnect2010 takes place at Microsoft NERD (http://microsoftcambridge.com/) One Memorial Drive in Cambridge from 4 PM - 6:45 PM on April 23rd. Light appetizers and refreshments will be served!
REGISTER HERE: http://ventureconnect2010.eventbrite.com/
This is a FREE event but please consider a modest donation which will be directed to the student ventures!
Professional Service Providers interested in displaying their organization, please sign up with your contact information so we can communicate directly.
Expected attendees are investors, attorneys, students, entrepreneurs, and press.
REGISTER HERE: http://ventureconnect2010.eventbrite.com/
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
PopSignal Mixer, HBS high fashion startups, and women entrepreneurs in Boston
I was at the PopSignal Alumni Mixer last night. Great party and met several interesting people I have been meaning to meet for some time. Scott Friend (Bain and Founder, Profit Logic), Rich Miner (Google Ventures), Sim Simeonov (FastIGNITE and formerly of Polaris), Chris Sheehan (CommonAngels) (who I first met at Techstars last year - didn't realize they have an Angel group and two co-investment funds alongside it). They do 2-5 investments a year. Also met Scott Kirsner (Globe). Rob Go (Spark Ventures) was there, but I didn't get a chance to get introduced to him.
The party was organized by Jay Meattle (2010 Fellow and Founder of Shareaholic). Also met up with two Fellows, Vishy (VC at Longworth Ventures by day and Founder of Lamhe by night) and Siddh Goyal (Founder, Assured Labor), a Founder of a Techstars company from Syracuse, and TJ, founder of FlipKey, which is now controlled by Expedia/Tripadvisor.
Scott / Bain invested in RentTheRunway, an HBS startup that is the netflix for fashion dresses, and doing very well. Its interesting that a similar concept - the netflix for handbags never worked out as well. There were three reasons that that business didn't work out well. Firstly, people kept handbags for a long time, and there was a lot of wear and tear. Secondly, people rented the originals and returned the fakes, and it was hard to figure out one from the other. But dresses are harder to recreate in 4 days, and there's no wear and tear, so this should be a very interesting business. Thirdly, they were buying these purses retail - and these things cost $3-5000.
PopSignal is a great event, and I look forward to attending more in the future. Its amazing - these parties didn't exist four years ago. How long have we come in Boston....
One observation from this event. Not having been to a tech mixer event like this one before, where people simply meet up to talk about startups (though I go to pitches, competitions and talks all the time), I was surprised at how completely male dominated the event was. I think in a party of a 100, there may have been two women who showed up. I hope it was just happenstance. Lifesciences events have a much better gender balance. I wonder if women not interested in tech startups in Boston (this cannot be true), or do they simply not attend these events (and if so, why)? Since we spend so much time and effort at TLP on finding diversity, I found it a little surprising that the Boston tech community didn't reflect my presumed gender diversity in this town.
The party was organized by Jay Meattle (2010 Fellow and Founder of Shareaholic). Also met up with two Fellows, Vishy (VC at Longworth Ventures by day and Founder of Lamhe by night) and Siddh Goyal (Founder, Assured Labor), a Founder of a Techstars company from Syracuse, and TJ, founder of FlipKey, which is now controlled by Expedia/Tripadvisor.
Scott / Bain invested in RentTheRunway, an HBS startup that is the netflix for fashion dresses, and doing very well. Its interesting that a similar concept - the netflix for handbags never worked out as well. There were three reasons that that business didn't work out well. Firstly, people kept handbags for a long time, and there was a lot of wear and tear. Secondly, people rented the originals and returned the fakes, and it was hard to figure out one from the other. But dresses are harder to recreate in 4 days, and there's no wear and tear, so this should be a very interesting business. Thirdly, they were buying these purses retail - and these things cost $3-5000.
PopSignal is a great event, and I look forward to attending more in the future. Its amazing - these parties didn't exist four years ago. How long have we come in Boston....
One observation from this event. Not having been to a tech mixer event like this one before, where people simply meet up to talk about startups (though I go to pitches, competitions and talks all the time), I was surprised at how completely male dominated the event was. I think in a party of a 100, there may have been two women who showed up. I hope it was just happenstance. Lifesciences events have a much better gender balance. I wonder if women not interested in tech startups in Boston (this cannot be true), or do they simply not attend these events (and if so, why)? Since we spend so much time and effort at TLP on finding diversity, I found it a little surprising that the Boston tech community didn't reflect my presumed gender diversity in this town.
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