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In related news to Leavey School Professor Robert Hendershott's recent research findings, news today of the imminent OpenTable IPO which could break the venture-backed IPO dry-spell of the past 15 ...
New research from my colleague Professor Robert Hendershott in the Department of Finance at Santa Clara University suggests that the traditional venture capital industry, evolved for relatively cap...
CIE Founders Award Winner and SCU alum Bob Goff updated me about a week long workshop July 6 - 10 called the Green Tech Entrepreneur Academy led by my colleague Wil Agatstein, Executive Director of...
Congrats to Vineet Jain '04 MBA, founder of Egnyte for making the Information Week Startup 50. You can see a great interview with Vineet here.
The 1909 Copyright Act marked a revolution in U.S. copyright law. The 1909 Act was the first to protect works upon publication with notice, without prior registration; the first to expressly recogn...
Highland Capital is offering summer grants for student entrepreneurs. Highland’s 10 week program is only open to enrolled graduate and undergraduate students or recent graduates (no later than Dec...
Recent alumni Chris Bates launched anew iPhone app that mixes humor with social good. Looks like Chris just got this going so help him out. You can download the app from the app store for $1 and ...
An exciting new venture on campus has begun taking sign-ups for its trial run. Bronco Bikes is a bike rental program that allows members to pick up bikes at several locations around campus and us...
Check out Envision Santa Cruz 2009 and rediscover Santa Cruz as a source of abundant innovation, creativity and entrepreneurial passion. The event is on Tuesday, March 31st starting at 6pm. Ticke...
Conventional wisdom would tell you that starting a company during an economic downturn is a bad idea. Sources of funding dry up, consumers and businesses spend less and the general mood of pessimi...
Guerrino DeLuca, Chairman and CEO of Logitech spoke to our CTE students Wednesday night at an intimate wine and cheese reception in Lucas Hall. Guerrino was born in Italy and graduated with an EE ...
Entrepreneur Program Alumni '07 John Barnidge wrote in from London to share an update on recent success at Seymour Pierce, a small and mid-cap UK Broker. John got in on the ground floor and says ...
The Santa Clara University Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) is conducting a survey to investigate the personality characteristics of entrepreneurs. The survey has been created by D...
Corticon is an angel-backed enterprise software startup looking for a couple of interns in marketing and sales. Email me your resume if you are interested in applying.
Mike Del Ponte is founder of SparkSeed.org, a new social venture accelerator that works with undergraduate students. Please let me know if you are interested in applying for a SparkSeed grant. ...
Congratulations to our MBA Entrepreneurs Connection (EC) for hosting a successful Venture Capital Investment Competition (VCIC).SCU's team placed for the first time in three years of hosting the ev...
You can check out entrepreneurship events all week at Stanford. More info is here.
Entrepreneurs with a history of success are much more likely to succeed in new ventures than first-timers or those who failed previously, new research from Harvard Business School demonstrates in t...
SD Forum's Green and Clean evening series starts tomorrow night at Orrick with a talk on clean tech opportunities with the new Obama administration. If you are interested in clean tech and want to...
Senior Conrad Egusa is working on a startup that provides an online portal to university life for current and prospective students. He is already set-up at over a dozen campuses across the country...
Senior Jon Baer is working on a non-profit startup that helps rehabilitate veterans with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). More than 44% of vets returning from Iraq and Afgahnistan have been ...
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An exciting presentation by Hoover Institution National Security Affairs Fellow Richard Boly on the Partnership for Growth in Italy, an attempt to modernize the Italian economy which has been progr...
A working paper by HBS Professors William R. Kerr and William F. Lincoln demonstrates, as you would expect, that patent increases correlate positively with H-1B visa increases. More H-1B = More In...
Interesting article in today's NYT on a serial education entrepreneur who is launching a free online University of the People. Applying social networking to higher ed and a non-profit business mod...
Article featuring my advisor Jim Marshall of Selby Ventures in today's Silicon Valley Business Journal on the state of the venture capital industry and the impact of the current recession.
A panel discussion on the directions-and challenges-of alternative energy highlighting Silicon Valley-Israel high-tech cooperation Have alternative-energy solutions reached a tipping point? Or will...
WSJ Article today on the contraction in the Venture Capital industry and its impact on portfolio companies.
This is the final invitation to attend FountainBlue and SDForum’s second annual State of the Clean Green Industry event, scheduled for Friday, January 30, 2009, from 8:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. at Sun Mi...
The 3rd Annual Entrepreneurship Week at Stanford University is coming up on February 18-25, 2009. Announcement below: Mark your calendar and plan to attend the third annual Entrepreneurship Week a...
My board elected Steve Foster '84 as our new chairman. Steve is a managing partner at TPG Ventures and has been a member of the CIE advisory board since 2006. I'm looking forward to Steve's leade...
If you are interested in competing please let me know....The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Business School is pleased to invite your graduate students to submit proposals to compet...
Here's an upcoming event that should be pretty interesting. If you are an SCU student and interested in attending you can get $10 off wiht the following discount code: PWC09SDForum Quarterly Ventu...
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