Contact: Michael Schwartz, ms206@duke.edu
Sponsor: EVCC, DSC, CEI, CERC, Wyrick
Where: The Teer Building (Engineering), Room 203, by the entrance
Why:
To understand how startups, of all kinds, get financing:
1) Come listen to Rich West, a highly-successful biotech entrepreneur and current CEO of Advanced Liquid Logic (a Duke University spinout), as he describes how startups of all kinds can acquire financing, big or small.
2) After he speaks, there will be a Duke Startup Challenge matching event, where students will a) pitch ideas and solicit teammates, or b) sit in the audience and listen for company ideas they want to work on developing. (Sign-up here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=aBxN62wpJzbvjrCp2LCdCQ_3d_3d )
3) The schedule is the same as always: 6pm-7pm Social Hour... 7pm-8pm the Speaker... 8pm-9pm the DSC matching event.
4) Come for just the speaker, or stay for all three. Open to all students, staff, and faculty.
5) Visit the website for more info: http://www.dukeDEES.com/
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The Duke Entrepreneurship Education Series (DEES) is a comprehensive program designed to introduce all Duke students – from both graduate and undergraduate schools – to the key concepts necessary for a future in entrepreneurship, small business, or venture capital.
The inaugural series will take place from September 2008 to January 2009, and each event will be taught by a leading entrepreneur or venture capitalist.
Our next event takes place on October 2nd, and subsequent events will take place on regular Thursdays thereafter.
The series is designed to connect students from all across the Duke community, including the business, law, engineering, and life science fields. The goal of the series is to not only practically educate, but to increase the likelihood that exciting developments and ideas from the lab will find the key collaborators necessary to translate innovations into fully-fledged companies.
The majority of events are front-loaded into September and October, for the express purpose of giving students, earlier, a stronger foundation to participate in a variety of activities in the Duke community, such as the Duke Startup Challenge, the Duke Entrepreneur, Markets and Management, EVCC, VCIC, Venture Fellows, and more.
Each event will start with a social hour and refreshments, and then continue with the same after the speaker, to better facilitate interaction between constituencies throughout the school.