Social Networks and the Entrepreneurial Reality:
Fertile Platform or Investment NutWorks?

Saturday, January 12, 2008

"How Can A Nano Company Get To Wall Street?"

Saturday, December 8, 2007

at the California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California
Registration and Continental Breakfast:
8:00 a.m. Baxter Hall
Program: 9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at Baxter Lecture Hall
Networking: 11:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at Baxter Lecture Hall
Cost: $40 on-line registration fee. $50 at-the-door. $10 for students with full-time student ID (must show at door); free to Caltech students. Registrations are taken on-line up to 12:00 noon the day prior to the event. There are no refunds for no-shows.

Dr. Mark E. Davis, the Warren and Katharine Schlinger Professor of
Chemical Engineering, will be giving a presentation on the path of
taking an idea from the lab to the biotech company and, finally, FDA
trials. His nanoparticle drug delivery therapy is currently in FDA
trials at City of Hope. Professor Davis will also be speaking about
the process of setting up and running a biotech company from his
experience as a founder of Insert Therapeutics and Calando
Pharmaceuticals.

Meet the Tech Coast Angels, the nation’s largest and most active network of angel investors.
Hear from exciting new start up companies.
Learn the art of the pitch.

January 28, 2008
UCLA Anderson School of Business / Korn Hall 5PM-9PM

Engineers for a Sustainable World &
the Caltech Y Social Activism Speaker Series present

Vestergaard-Frandsen's Peter Cleary
LIFESTRAW
TIME magazine Best Invention of the Year

"LIFESTRAW: Delivering Clean Water for the Developing World"

Thursday, November 29th, 8:00 p.m.
Beckman Institute Auditorium, Caltech
FREE; no tickets or reservations required

This is a great opportunity to meet young entrepreneurs from all around LA.

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Join us for EMS November Networking Night at LIFE on Wilshire!

All EMS members and alumni are welcome to bring friends and colleagues!

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Thursday, November 15...7:30 pm
LIFE on Wilshire
6311 Wilshire Blvd

Potential members are welcome to attend one free session.

From Shaun:

We have our 3rd official sessions this Saturday. Please be on time 8:30am-12:00pm with optional lunch and networking afterwards. Call me at 626-780-8876 if you get lost….

Please save these dates for this upcoming semester: Nov 17@LMU, Dec 1,Jan 12, Jan 26, Feb 9

Speakers for this Saturday

Bart Greenberg – startup/vc attorney, president of TCVN…. Very connected guy

Gary Rochlin – grew his company to 20+ million dollars with international operations

Date: Sat, 10/13

From 4 to 5 p.m. on November 8, in 24 Beckman Labs (BBB), Leonard Nelson,
from the nonprofit organization The Least Among Us, will present a talk
called "The Opportunity to Make a Difference: The Challenges and
Lessons Learned from Starting and Managing a Nonprofit." The Least
Among Us is dedicated to improving the educational infrastructure in
rural El Salvador. Nelson's talk will focus on the use of comparative
advantages to succeed, strategies and branding for new organizations,
and education and technology in the developing world.

BarCamp is an ad-hoc un-conference born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos and interaction from attendees - often focusing on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats.

Little Radio Warehouse
1218 Long Beach Ave
Los Angeles, California 90021

The Entrepreneur Mentor Society will be holding their second session of the semester at Caltech. Caltech Eclub members who have never been to an EMS session, are welcome to attend.

Tim Ryan, a Caltech Alum, will talk about his experiences and the lessons he learned from bootstrapping a startup to building a $200 million company. For more on Ryan and his company...

Location: Moore 070

Time: 8:30 am to 12:00 pm. Breakfast and lunch will be served