fw: Fuel For Your Week: A Holiday Gift From OCTANe

[W. Wood Harter]

Anyone who is entering the technical industry and/or has even a small entrepreneurial streak should join this group. Making a business venture work is all about networking (with people, not with computers) and this is a great networking group that includes a lot of VCs, independent investors, banks, legal resources and general business help.

Wood

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Subject: Fuel For Your Week: A Holiday Gift From OCTANe

Fuel For Your Week A Holiday Gift from OCTANe December 18, 2006 - Issue 41

This Week's Fuel OCTANe Community Calendar Thanks to OCTANe's 2006 Annual Partners! 'Twas the Year Before OCTANe About OCTANe LaunchPad Community Calendar OCTANe Foundation for Innovation Sponsorship/Membership Join Mailing List!		Happy Holidays! Attention all young people! You are invited to join OCTANe Next for FREE! OCTANe Next is our newest initiative focused on "next" generation leaders (ages 18 - 25). As a member of OCTANe Next, you can attend most OCTANe events for FREE, connect with local business leaders, access the OCTANe Talent Engine for job opportunities, and much more! All it takes is a quick registration, and you're on the fast track with OC's biomedical and high tech communities. Maybe it's the eggnog, but OCTANe is investing tens of thousands of dollars in OCTANe Next because these young entrepreneurs are our future and we want it to be bright! We're the only organization around taking this initiative, so if you're a budding entrepreneur (or if you know any) let us escort you in to OC's biomedical and high tech industries! So why are we doing this? Many reasons... Today's youth are tomorrow's leaders "Tomorrow's leaders" are leaving Orange County in what some call an "exodus" (read on) UC Irvine and other OC universities are educating some of the nation's best and brightest technical talent - OCTANe wants to connect them with OC business leaders and jobs NOW! It's the right thing to do for our innovative future And hey, everyone likes to play Santa Please pass this special invitation along to all OCTANe Next candidates (ages 18 - 25), and click here to sign up through OCTANe! Also, let us know if you would like to be an OCTANe Next Leader... See below for a special member discount to DEMO '07, and for a holiday poem from OCTANe!

OCTANe Community Calendar

OCTANe keeps an up-to-date community calendar on its Web site. It includes all of OCTANe's events and programs, as well as relevant events in the Orange County and So Cal technology and biomedical industries. Click here to view the calendar! Program Spotlight of the Week: DEMO 2007 Come to DEMO 07 and invest in the technologies that rise above the rest. DEMO 07 champions the hottest trends in tech. Come see the power, the products and the potential for yourself. DEMO is now the number one event among VCs and companies that are "in-the- know." At DEMO 07, the sky's the limit. You'll experience the dramatic launch of 70 of the world's most dynamic technologies and see them rise above the rest with phenomenal media coverage. The opportunities to fund the next tech star and build new alliances are bigger here than anywhere else. DEMO is where VIPs of the technology world gather to see the companies and products that could literally change the way we live, work, and play. Learn about the hottest trends, exchange ideas with thought leaders and build new alliances. Join us January 30 - February 1 in Palm Desert, California and be sure to register now for an OCTANe discount rate: http://www .demo.com/D7OCTANE

Thanks to OCTANe's 2006 Annual Partners!

OCTANe is supported by Orange County's leading high tech and biomedical companies and industry- related organizations. We thank them for their support and involvement, and look forward to working them in 2007! If you would like to join this strategic partner set, contact us! 2006 Annual Sponsors Allergan Alquest AMO Aubrey Group Bridgegate Broadcom Center for Creative Leadership Conexant CRESA Partners Crystal Cove Capital Dorsey & Whitney Edwards Lifesciences Ernst & Young Greenberg Traurig The Irvine Company KPMG Mindspeed Morrison & Foerster Newport Corp Omnica Oracle Capital Advisors Orrick Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman Preston Gates & Ellis PRTM PricewaterhouseCoopers RoseRyan Roth Capital Partners Silicon Valley Bank Source Scientific Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth TechSpace TriNet UC Irvine Western Digital 2006 Company Members 3D Vision Systems Arbor Surgical Aristos Logic Calit2 Clariphy Communications CODA Genomics Dartbrook Partners Hitachi Chemical Research Center Indigo Orb Kadmus Pharmaceuticals Miramar Venture Partners National Healthcare Services Palomar Ventures Pinnacle Resources International Primegen Biotech UCI Integrated Nanosystems Research Facility (INRF) UCI Department of Biomedical Engineering UCI Office of Technology Alliances Versant Ventures WaveTec Vision Systems More Information on Membership and Partnership

'Twas the Year Before OCTANe

A Holiday Poem From OCTANe 'Twas the year before OCTANe And all through OC Entrepreneurs were wondering How to get to VCs Investments were down New companies - not many The county seemed stalled The outlook - not merry Researchers were nestled all snug in their labs The county was lifeless The outlook was bad When what to OC's Great delight should appear A fuel powered sleigh... OCTANe is here They spoke not a word But went straight to the deed Combining people and capital And technology Come start-ups! Come CEOs! Come scientists to see Come VCs! Come researchers! Come large companies Let's get more companies started More jobs and dollars for OC Let's give Silicon Valley A run for their money OC pulled together Cause with OCTANe they see This county is so much more Than a show on TV And now that we're started The county's belivin' So cheers to '06 And an even better '07 Happy Holidays from All of Us at OCTANe!

See You Next Year!

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