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Welcome to the BASES Digest!
We are excited to bring you your weekly email digest summing up the best events and opportunities happening in and aroun
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Welcome to the BASES Digest!
We are excited to bring you your weekly email digest summing up the best events and opportunities happening in and around the Stanford entrepreneurship community. We look forward to bringing entrepreneurial events and opportunities to your inbox! Please look forward to the digest weekly in your inbox.
To keep up with the latest on BASES, check out the BASES Blog!
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Events for Students and the Community
Lauren Powell Jobs, Founder and Chair of the Emerson Collective, Speaking at ETL
VLAB Founders Series: The Art of Relationship Building with Heidi Roizen
European Entrepreneurship (ME421) Big Data Startups & Co-Working Space
Products That Count: Award-Winning Designer of the New Uber Office on Workplace Evolved
Opportunities for Students
Apply for BASES Challenge: $100,000 Startup Competition - Deadline Extended!
Work with the Innovation Center at Samsung
Tomorrow: Info Session and Pitch Night for Spring Quarter Course CEE 246
Apply to Cardinal Ventures!
Digital Media Entrepreneurship Class (COMM 140) Offered in Spring
Opportunities for the Community
Full-time Software Lead Position at Summer Technologies
Apply for Italia Innovation Program
You’re invited to T-Groups for Startups! |
Events for Students and Community |
Lauren Powell Jobs, Founder and Chair of the Emerson Collective, Speaking at ETL
Wednesday, March 4 | Stanford - NVIDIA | 4:30 PM
Laurene Powell Jobs is an American business executive and the founder of Emerson Collective, which advocates for policies concerning education and immigration reform, social justice, and environmental conservation. She is also co-founder and President of the Board of College Track, which prepares disadvantaged high school students for college. Powell Jobs resides in Palo Alto, California with her three children. She controls the Steven P. Jobs Trust, now known as the Laurene Powell Jobs Trust, which owns around 130 to 140 million shares of stock or between 7 and 8 percent stake as the largest shareholder in The Walt Disney Company. As of 2014, she was ranked as the #29th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes.
About ETL: Featuring talks from leaders in technology, business, finance, education and philanthropy, the DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Series continues to educate and inspire. Presented by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program and BASES. Please visit etl.stanford.edu for more information. |
VLAB Founders Series: The Art of Relationship Building with Heidi Roizen
Thursday, March 12 | Palo Alto
If you are a startup founder, join us on March 12 for an evening with Heidi Roizen, Operating Partner at Draper Fisher Jurvetson, and moderated by Harry Barry, Partner at Sidley Austin LLP and former CEO of Napster, Inc.
Heidi will share her insights on building relationships, re-thinking the art of negotiation, maintaining your cool under adversity and how ethics sets the tone.
Don't miss out on this unique opportunity to connect with other startup founders and receive personalized mentorship from Heidi Roizen. Learn what it takes to build successful and meaningful relationships for your entrepreneurial venture.
Register Here
For all other questions, please email outr...@vlab.org. |
European Entrepreneurship (ME421) Big Data Startups & Co-Working Spaces
Monday, March 2 | Stanford - Hewlett 201 | 4:30 PM
Session Seven of 'European Entrepreneurship @ Stanford Engineering' showcases another highly innovative and creative software startup out of Estonia that is a leader in the emerging planetary | oceanic big data sector. We also present our first co-working space venture, with operations in Berlin, Barcelona, Sofia and Hamburg; co-working spaces form an essential element of Europe's startup support services sector. Our Estonian government partner Enterprise Estonia - Silicon Valley will present a brief overview of Estonia's extensive innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystem around software | computing | security | eGovt.
About European ETL
Learn about the startup and venture capital scene in Europe; meet leading European founders and investors. This course provides rare exposure to leading startups, entrepreneurs and venture funds from Western, Eastern, Nordic and Mediterranean Europe. Students will also learn about the key differences in startup and innovation ecosystems between Europe and Silicon Valley.
For more information, visit our website here |
Products That Count: Award-Winning Designer of the New Uber Office on Workplace Evolved
Wednesday, March 25 | Yelp | 7 PM
A well-designed workplace is critical to attract A-players and build at first-class culture. What does tomorrow's work environment look like? Award-winning designer of the new Uber, Cisco, and Yelp offices, Primo Orpilla, shares his secret for bringing creativity, productivity, and culture into the work space. Plus beer and yummy pizza!
Tickets here
Early bird tickets |
Opportunities for Students |
Apply for BASES Challenge: $100,000 Startup Competition - Deadline Extended!
BASES Challenge is Stanford's oldest and largest student startup competition. Open to current undergraduates, graduate students, and Stanford alumni, BASES Challenge allows Stanford affiliates to enter their social enterprise, business, or product ideas into competition to compete for $100,000+ in funding.
Students who compete have the opportunity to network with investors and VCs, pitch and receive professional feedback, gain access to mentorship with experts in the industry, and immerse themselves in a community of others passionate about launching their own startups.
Past winners include Kiva, One Acre Fund, Boosted Boards, D.Light Design, and Samasource.
Applications are open here
Applications close on March 13 at 11:59 PM |
Work with the Innovation Center at Samsung
Samsung's Global Innovation Center and BASES are looking for Stanford students to collaborate with in our Technology Scouting program. In the scout project, students will have access to resources at Samsung to reach out to and evaluate innovative start-ups for investment, acquisition, or partnership.
Students will meet innovative startups and present a deal-proposal to Samsung at the end of the year.
To apply or receive more information, leave your name here |
Tomorrow: Info Session and Pitch Night for Spring Quarter Course CEE 246
Student teams interested in developing entrepreneurial businesses related to civil and environmental engineering should attend an informational session and pitch night for the course "Entrepreneurship in Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE 246).
CEE 246 is a team project-based course that guides students through the process of identifying opportunities, developing business plans and determining funding sources geared toward developing entrepreneurial businesses related to civil and environmental engineering. With support of industry mentors, the class culminates with presentations to industry experts and venture capitalists to mimic typical investor pitches. The goal is to provide students with the knowledge and network to realize their business idea.
Tomorrow's event starts at 5:15 p.m. and will be held in Y2E2 299. To apply to the course, please fill out this application.
For additional information, please contact David Wingate at df...@stanford.edu. |
Opportunities For The Community |
Full-time Software Lead Position at Summer Technologies
Do you love Chipotle? Want to build something that changes lives and shapes the future of sustainable food?
Summer Technologies is hiring a full-time backend developer for the position of software development lead. We're an exciting Stanford startup transforming how sustainable beef and dairy is grown. We were BASES Social-E Challenge finalists, StartX alumni, advised by Steve Blank, and backed by some of the top names in cleantech.
Graduating students looking for full time positions, check out our job description and email christine@summertechnologies to apply. |
Apply for Italia Innovation Program
Italia Innovation Program announces the second edition of its international Summer Program from June 13-15.
Make your summer unforgettable with a month-long full-immersive experience in the Venice Region: a unique entrepreneurial journey where Italian companies will challenge international talented students to lead the innovation of their business and productive models. Participants will receive the mentorship of a unique team of experts and professors like Bill Burnett (Stanford d.school), Dario Buzzini (IDEO), Robert Jackson (Columbia Law School), Luca Enriques (Oxford University), Sree Sreenivasan (the MET, NY), as well as business journalists like Bill Emmott and Alexandra Fattal (The Economist), Annalisa Merelli (Quartz) and Cathy Huyghe (Forbes).
Company visits, industry insights, hands-on lectures, inspirational talks and up-to-date tools, like Design Thinking, Corporate Law and Economics, Entrepreneurship and Design Labs, will foster the industry understanding and boost the project works.
We really believe in innovating the Italian economy. Do you?
Apply now here |
You’re invited to T-Groups for Startups!
Anyone who leads a startup knows just how emotionally challenging it can be to manage and motivate a diverse, fast-growing team. While there’s no quick fix for all of these challenges, our T-Groups For Startups weekend will give entrepreneurial leaders like you a chance to raise your self-awareness and develop more effective interpersonal skills over the course of a single weekend. You'll get better at having hard conversations, giving feedback, and understanding the impact of your actions as a leader.
Our T-Group For Startups weekend is:
- open to any startup leader (founder, CEO, or anyone else who leads a team within a startup) from any size/stage of venture
- facilitated by two startup coaches who also facilitate T-Groups at the Stanford Business School
- the only T-Group weekend designed exclusively for startup leaders
Read testimonials from other startup leaders including the CEO of Tagged, the VP of Product & Engineering at oDesk, and the Head of Product at Homejoy here or watch this video.
Applications for our next T-Group weekend in March are now open.
Even if you are a very early-stage founder, please consider applying. We offer a few partial scholarships for pre-funding startups, and we typically have 1-2 Stanford student founders in every group. |
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