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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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Arushi
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Events for Students and the Community
Save the Date! BASES Challenge Finale on May 8
Mike Rothenberg, Founder, Rothenberg Ventures, Speaking at ETL
Lunch With SproutBox: Clean Energy Ideas For Entrepreneurial Classes
Energy Seminar: Carbon Pricing
Future of Technology & Entrepreneurship
Opportunities for Students
PROPEL Program: Call for Applications
Opportunities for the Community
Sign up for "Sparks” Classes Related to Entrepreneurship and Innovation |
Events for Students and Community |
Save the Date! BASES Challenge Finale on May 8
Friday, May 8 | Arrillaga Alumni Center
BASES Finale, the final round of the BASES Challenge $100K Competition, will be taking place this year on May 8th at the Arrillaga Alumni Center. Please join us from 2:00pm to 4:00pm as we showcase Stanford's up-and-coming entrepreneurs and budding ventures, winnowed down from over 150 applicant teams. Vote for your crowd favorite and explore innovative ideas and products! Winners will be announced at 4:30pm.
Schedule
10:45 - 11:00: Registration (teams and judges only)
11:00 - 2:30: Judging (sponsors & judges only)
2:00 - 4:00pm: Public Showcase
4:00 - 5:00pm: Award Ceremony Programming
5:00 - 7:00pm: BASES Sponsor Celebration (exclusive event for sponsors, BASES alumni, and Challenge winners) |
Mike Rothenberg, Founder, Rothenberg Ventures, Speaking at ETL
Wednesday, May 6 | Stanford - NVIDIA | 4:30 PM
Mike Rothenberg is founder and CEO of Rothenberg Ventures, which identifies, invests in, and cultivates technology value and talent at scale, and launched River, the world's first virtual reality accelerator. As an entrepreneur, Rothenberg founded and boot-strapped three companies, including Rothenberg Investments, where he managed real estate private equity capital from the age of 22.
Prior to Rothenberg Ventures, he invested at Audax Private Equity and consulted at Bain & Company. In his spare time, Rothenberg is a volunteer mentor, most recently at Minds Matter, a group focused on helping first-generation students navigate through high school ready for college. He is a graduate of the Stanford School of Engineering and Harvard Business School.
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. |
Lunch With SproutBox: Clean Energy Ideas For Entrepreneurial Classes
Monday, May 4 | Venture Studio NGP CoLab (M101) | 12:00 PM
Interested in taking an experiential entrepreneurship class at Stanford? Join SproutBoxers to talk about clean energy and sustainability ideas and form teams. SproutBox is a Stanford collaborative supporting sustainable energy and green venture formation across disciplines. We connect people across the sustainable innovation landscape through interactive events, tracking active start-up, and targeted advising to accelerate the pace and success-rate of Stanford sustainable energy ventures.
Please RSVP here. Lunch will be provided |
Energy Seminar: Carbon Pricing
Monday, May 4 | Stanford - NVIDIA | 4:15 PM
Bill Mitchel, Senior Director, World Wide Public Sector, Microsoft
As Senior Director for Microsoft’s World Wide Public Sector team, Bill Mitchel leads the company’s government business development to drive energy, transportation and sustainability solutions. Over the last three years, Mr. Mitchel has built an ecosystem of strategic partner relationships with ISVs, systems integrators, universities and government to deliver innovative energy efficient and economically sustainable solutions for Smart Cities. During his ten years at Microsoft, he created, delivered and managed new strategic partnerships – supported by Microsoft investment - with the largest software and services companies in building management systems, smart buildings and product lifecycle management, including Alstom, Johnson Controls, Accenture, Siemens and Dassault Systemes. Prior to Microsoft, Mr. Mitchel served in a variety of executive sales management and business development roles in the software and technology business for 20 years, including the 3D design business and several start-ups providing web-based solutions focused on design and product lifecycle management. |
Future of Technology & Entrepreneurship
Thursday, May 7 | Stanford - CEMEX | 2:15 PM
Please join the Stanford Engineering Honor Society and Tau Beta Pi for the Future of Technology & Entrepreneurship. This will be a fireside chat with the following guests:
* Michael Moritz, Chariman, Sequoia
* Apoorva Mehta, Founder & CEO, Instacart
* Patrick Collison, Cofounder & CEO, Stripe |
Opportunities for Students |
PROPEL Program: Call for Applications
It is our pleasure to introduce PROPEL, a startup acceleration program for prototype development from Fraunhofer TechBridge (a program of Fraunhofer CSE) and Greentown Labs. We are seeking innovations that can enable a smarter, interconnected, resource-efficient world through sensing and intervention.
Startups working on innovative ways to build and useSelf-Powered Wireless Sensor-ActuatorNetworks are welcome to apply! Selected startups will receive incubation and prototyping space at Greentown Labs, technical guidance through Fraunhofer TechBridge, exposure to industry strategic partner and investor group mentors, and up to $10,000 in non-dilutive funds.
Think you're a great fit for PROPEL? Apply here! |
Opportunities For The Community |
Sign up for "Sparks” Classes Related to Entrepreneurship and Innovation
STVP Sparks are short-term, extracurricular “pop-up classes” on a variety of topics related to entrepreneurship and innovation. Taught by Stanford adjunct faculty or a member of the local entrepreneurial community, each Spark consists of three night sessions, one night a week for three weeks. This makes Sparks an excellent way to expand your entrepreneurial mindset without adding course units
Upcoming Sparks:
The Untapped $20 Trillion Market: How to design and sell products and services to women
with Rebeca Hwang, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Rivet Ventures, and Henrik Scheel, Founder and CEO, Startup Experience, Inc.
May 6
6:00 – 7:30 p.m.
Presence, Power and Performance
with Aleta Hayes, Lecturer, Contemporary Dance and Performance, Stanford University
May 11 and 13
7:00 – 8:15 p.m.
Navigating Entrepreneurship: What kind of entrepreneur can you be and how do you get there?
with Jack Fuchs, Lecturer, Management Science & Engineering, Stanford University
May 13 and 20
5:45 – 7:15 p.m
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Students, staff and faculty are encouraged to sign up. For more information and to register online, visit stvp.stanford.edu/sparks |
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