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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.
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Events for Students and the Community
BASES Challenge Kickoff is Here!
Jennifer Pahlka, Founder of Code for America Speaking at ETL
Women Under 30: Transforming Entrepreneurship
European ETL: Startups in Oil Economies || Scotland & Norway
Products That Count: Form Follows Function
Product Design Demo
Opportunities for Students
Sign up For TreeHacks!
Mayfield Fellows Program - Applications Due Monday, Feb 2, 2014
Engineering 145: "Technology Entrepreneurship" Video
New course: MS&E 257 – Health Care Reforms and Value-based Biomedical Innovation
Opportunities for the Community
Sign up for "Sparks” Classes Related to Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Software Product Manager at Locus Energy |
Events for Students and Community |
BASES Challenge Kickoff is Here!
Monday, January 19 | Stanford - Paul Brest Hall | 6 PM
BASES Challenge is here! Come learn more at our demo-day event with a keynote address by Michael Baum (founder of Founder.org). Also present will be past Challenge participants as well as some of our sponsors.
Event Details
The kickoff will be held in Paul Brest Hall in Stanford University. Parking is available at the Wilbur Parking Lot (free after 4pm) or Parking Structure 6 (pay per space), which is underneath the Wilbur lot. The event will begin at 6pm and end at 8pm, so please come early enough (anytime after 5pm) to provide yourself with enough time to set up. The tentative schedule is below.
Event Schedule
5:00pm - 6:00pm - Set Up
6:00pm - 6:10pm - Intro
6:10pm - 6:35pm - Speaker: Michael Balm (Founder of Founder.org)
6:35pm - 8:00pm - Networking/Demo
Again, please remember to confirm your attendance at the event with this EventBrite link |
Jennifer Pahlka, Founder of Code for America, Speaking at ETL
Wednesday, January 14 | Stanford - NVIDIA | 4:30 PM
Jennifer Pahlka is the founder and executive director of Code for America. She recently served as the US Deputy Chief Technology Officer in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. She is known for her TED talk, Coding a Better Government, and the recipient of several awards, including MIT’s Kevin Lynch Award, the Oxford Internet Institute’s Internet and Society Award, and the National Democratic Institute’s Democracy Award. She is a graduate of Yale University and lives in Oakland, Calif. with her daughter, her fiance, and seven chickens.
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. |
Women Under 30: Transforming Entrepreneurship
Tuesday, January 20 | Stanford Graduate School of Business - CEMEX | 6:00PM
It’s time again for VLAB’s annual young entrepreneur spotlight. Every year, we showcase some of the best ideas from the brightest young entrepreneurs. Tuesday, January 20th will be no exception. This year, we’re focusing specifically on female entrepreneurs under 30. Come see what they have to offer.
Join us for this inspiring evening to hear the stories of these promising founders and their disruptive startups.
Register Here
Complimentary Code: STANFORD2015JAN
Please feel free to reach out to outr...@vlab.org if we can help answer any questions. |
European ETL: Startups in Oil Economies || Scotland & Norway
Monday, January 12 | Stanford - Hewlett 201 | 4:30 PM
Session Two of "European ETL" features a leading accelerator and VC from Scotland and Norway who will provide an in-depth look at how Europe's top oil-based economies are building out their emerging startup sectors against the backdrop of historical dependence on petroleum extraction. Our Scottish speaker will also touch on how Scotland's recent push for independence from the UK has impacted the broader entrepreneurship environment.
Speakers: Jamie Coleman, Managing Director, CodeBase, Edinborough (UK) and Arne Tonning, General Partner, Alliance Venture, Oslo (NO)
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.
The course will be taught during Winter Quarter for 1 unit. It will take place on Mondays from 4:30-5:45 pm at Hewlett 201. Offered by the Dept of Mechanical Engineering, ME421 is open to grads and undergrads, no pre-requisites, S/NC grading.
For more information, visit our website here |
Products That Count: Form Follows Function
Wednesday, January 29 | Yelp | 7 PM
Facebook's ex-head of mobile development Jocelyn Goldfein shares best practices in building great software companies and cultures. "Your business model and technology stack shape your software company's DNA and culture. You should understand how and why." Plus beer and yummy pizza!
[Tickets here](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/form-follows-function-tickets-14425808983)
Tweet: Facebook ex-head of mobile development @jgoldfein talks about how to build great software companies on 1/28 @Yelp, tickets
LinkedIn/Facebook: Facebook's ex-head of mobile development Jocelyn Goldfein talks about how to build great software companies on 1/28. This will likely sell out. Grab your tickets fast! |
Product Design Demo
Thursday, February 19 | The Art Institute of California - Sunnyvale | 6 PM
Within the tech industry, it is becoming increasingly important to broaden our skills and embrace new ones that are paving the way of our future. Product design is described as a whole process with many different factors that go into the design. From concept to completion, an idea evolves through a life cycle of UX/UI designers, graphic/visual designers, user researchers, data analysts, and prototypers to name a few. As we see day to day, current trends of messaging, virtual reality, all things “smart”, and data storage are consistently changing.
From hardware to software, and all of the components necessary for a product design, Tech in Motion Silicon Valley will be taking a deeper look into all forms of design.
Learn more here |
Opportunities for Students |
Sign up For TreeHacks!
TreeHacks is Stanford's national hackathon.
On February 20th, BASES is bringing the most talented programmers, designers, tinkerers and creators to Silicon Valley. Join your peers for 36 hours of bringing crazy ideas to life. You take care of creating. We'll take care of you.
All current university students are welcome to apply to TreeHacks. High school students are welcome if they are going to be 18 or older by February 20th, 2015. Applicants will be chosen based on prior work (personal projects, previous hacks, stuff made for an internship, cool classwork, and so on) and their interest in TreeHacks.
The deadline to apply for California-based hackers is January 25th. Apply here. Applications are now closed for outside-California hackers.
Stanford Students please note: here's a separate registration process for Stanford students. We'll send out more details about that in January, so stay tuned.
For more information, visit our website |
Mayfield Fellows Program - Applications Due Monday, Feb 2, 2014
The Stanford Technology Ventures Program is accepting applications for the 20th class of the Mayfield Fellows Program (MFP). This nine-month, work/study experience is designed to develop a theoretical and practical understanding of the techniques for growing technology companies. Enrollment is limited to a dozen outstanding Stanford undergraduate or co-terminal students from any disciplinary background.
MFP combines an intense sequence of courses on the management of technology ventures, a paid summer internship at a start-up company, and ongoing mentoring and networking activities. A short video about the program can be seen here: http://vimeo.com/100942447
Students interested in applying are highly encouraged to attend one of the information sessions:
Information sessions:
Huang Engineering Center, Suite 003
Tuesday, Jan. 13, 5:30 – 6:30 PM
Tuesday, Jan. 20, 5:30 - 6:30 PM |
Engineering 145: "Technology Entrepreneurship" Video
We’re pleased to present another course showcase produced by STVP: a video and article on the popular and inspiring course Engineering 145: "Technology Entrepreneurship” — a course that dissects and demystifies technology entrepreneurship, and has ignited the innovator in many of its students.
As one alumna in our story today states: “It’s really the skill set of learning how to discover opportunities, and then take those opportunities and form them so that they’re this great product or service that people really need.” ~ Alumna and tech entrepreneur Erin Parker, ’11.
You can find the video and story here |
New course: MS&E 257 – Health Care Reforms and Value-based Biomedical Innovation
A fundamental transformation of the US medical care system is underway in which healthcare policymakers, payers and administrators are intensely focused on new health policy mechanisms designed to constrain healthcare costs while promoting quality, outcomes and value. With the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in 2010, the US has entered a new era of health policy that many refer to as the new “value era.” This class evaluates healthcare reimbursement system reforms in the U.S. and abroad with a specific focus on examining their impact on the biomedical technology innovation process. In addition to lectures and case studies, guest speakers will include experts from health plans, integrated delivery systems,hospitals and the medical technology industry to share how they are responding to these ongoing reforms and the implications for successful biomedical innovation in the future. Students investigate real-world technology innovations in course projects.
Fridays, 1:15-3:05, Y2E2 Room 101
Course webpage
[Course syllabus: attached and on course webpage |
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:
Leading Intelligent Teams
with Liz Wiseman, President, Wiseman Group
January 13, 20, and 27
5:00 -7:00 pm
Giving Rise to Thunderlizards: What Legendary Startups Look Like Before They Make It Big
with Ann-Miura Ko, Co-Founder & Partner, FLOODGATE
January 21, 28, and February 4
7:00 – 9:00 pm
From Founding to Funding: Evolving Startup Organizations
with Dan Berkenstock, Co-founder, Skybox Imaging, Inc.and Dan Dorosin, Partner, Fenwick & West LLP
January 27, February 3, and 10
7:00 – 9:00 pm
Students, staff and faculty are encouraged to sign up. For more information and to register online, visit stvp.stanford.edu/sparks |
Software Product Manager at Locus Energy
Locus Energy is looking for a talented and motivated Software Product Manager to join our team. As a Software Product Manager at Locus Energy, you will lead the development of new products and features for our solar management platform. Our SaaS platform currently monitors over 40,000 solar photovoltaic sites ranging in size from small residential systems up to large utility-scale solar power plants. If you are excited about solar energy, passionate about building awesome products, and intrigued by the opportunity to build a world-class solar management & analytics platform, we are looking for you!
Read more about job responsibilities and skill & requirements here
About Locus Energy
Locus Energy is a leading provider of monitoring and analytics for distributed renewable energy systems. We are a fast growing startup, and have offices in downtown San Francisco and New Jersey. We are building a team of individuals who are excited about creating smarter software to reduce the cost of managing solar energy systems, and thereby accelerating the shift away from fossil fuels.
How to apply: Contact hr_...@locusenergy.com |
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