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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
Jeanne Gang, Founder and Principal of Studio Gang Architects, Speaking at ETL
Kick-Start Your Career: Lightspeed Venture Partners & Partner John Vrionis
European Entrepreneurship (ME421) Poland & Austria Internet-of-Things Startups & Seed Funds
Gut Feeling - Is Bacteria Analytics the Key to Personalized Medicine?
Microsoft Ventures Open House
SF's Mission-Driven Startup Showcase
Products That Count: Form Follows Function
Opportunities for Students
Stanford Students Sign up for TreeHacks!
Mayfield Fellows Program - Applications Due Monday, Feb 2, 2015
Let’s Do Lunch and Talk Leadership on Jan. 30
Accelerate your Startup: StartX Accelerator Program
Volunteer and Attend Venture Summit | West 2015
TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy Summer Internships
Opportunities for the Community
Sign up for "Sparks” Classes Related to Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Summer Intern Position at D.E. Shaw Group |
Events for Students and Community |
Jeanne Gang, Founder and Principal of Studio Gang Architects, Speaking at ETL
Wednesday, January 28 | Stanford - NVIDIA | 4:30 PM
Visionary architect and MacArthur Fellow Jeanne Gang is the founder and principal of Studio Gang Architects, a Chicago-based collective of architects, designers, and thinkers whose projects confront pressing contemporary issues. Driven by curiosity, intelligence, and radical creativity, Jeanne has produced some of today’s most innovative and award-winning architecture. The transformative potential of her work is exemplified by such recent projects as the Aqua Tower, Northerly Island framework plan, Nature Boardwalk at Lincoln Park Zoo, and Columbia College Chicago’s Media Production Center. A distinguished graduate of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, she has taught at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and IIT, where her studios have focused on cities, ecologies, materials, and technologies.
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. |
Kick-Start Your Career: Lightspeed Venture Partners & Partner John Vrionis
Wednesday, January 28 | Stanford - Old Union, Room 200 | 5 PM
Do you have questions about your job or internship search? Are you an aspiring entrepreneur looking for more than an internship this summer?
Join BASES and Lightspeed Partner, John Vrionis, Stanford alumni and seasoned venture capitalist. John will share insights on how young entrepreneurs can kick-start their careers, whether through founding a company or joining a startup. He will also share information on how you can participate in Lightspeed’s Summer Fellowships. Lightspeed Summer Fellows can earn up to $45k, mentorship, office space at LSVP in Menlo Park and the opportunity to spend the summer getting their venture off the ground! John will do a short presentation, followed by Q&A and open discussion.
The session will take place Wed. 1/28 at 5pm in Old Union, Room 200. Food and beverages will be provided.
(RSVP here)[http://lsvpatstanford.splashthat.com/] |
European Entrepreneurship (ME421) Poland & Austria Internet-of-Things Startups & Seed Funds
Monday, January 26| Stanford - Hewlett 201 | 4:30 PM
"'European ETL" presents Poland's hottest founder - leading a very cool IoT startup out of Krakow - and our first seed fund | accelerator from Vienna. Both companies have established operations here in Silicon Valley while maintaining core technical activities back home.
SPEAKERS:
▪ Jakub Krzych - CEO & Co-Founder, Estimote (PO)
▪ Markus Wagner – CEO & Founder, i5invest (AT)
▪ Mario Herger – CEO & Co-Founder, Austrian Innovation Center Silicon Valley (AT)
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 |
Gut Feeling - Is Bacteria Analytics the Key to Personalized Medicine?
Tuesday, February 17th | Stanford Graduate School of Business - CEMEX | 6:00 PM
Instead of eradicating bacteria, scientists and entrepreneurs have entered a race to develop tools and datasets that uncover the role microbes play in human health.
Advances in DNA sequencing and big data allow us to analyze bacteria like never before. Companies that focus on the microbiome could transform multi-billion dollar concerns like weight loss ($60B), probiotics ($30B), cosmetics, dental health, and even chronic diseases like diabetes. Will microbiome analysis change modern medicine? Is the money in sequencing, analytics, or drug development?
Join us on February 17th as our panelists and demo companies seek to answer these questions. Register Here. Complimentary Code (Stanford Student ID Required): STANFORD2015FEB
Please feel free to reach out to outr...@vlab.org if we can help answer any questions. |
Microsoft Ventures Open House
Thursday, January 29 | San Francisco | 6:00 PM
We are currently accepting applications for our next Microsoft Ventures Accelerator in Seattle dedicated to Digital Work. This cohort will focus on startups building scalable productivity applications, cloud-centric software platforms and enterprise-grade solutions to help people get more done. Startups can apply now for the Digital Work Accelerator.
Come learn about the new Seattle class, meet local startups in the space, speak to folks from Microsoft Ventures and get all of your important questions answered. Food and beverages will be served.
Startups can find more information and apply here |
SF's Mission-Driven Startup Showcase
Thursday, February 5 | San Francisco | 6:30 PM
The SF Social Good for Profit Meetup is happy to invite you to a night of innovation and progress. We will showcase five of San Francisco's most ingenious startups that are using business as a force for good:
* Bee Line Reader
* Open Label
* Ruly
* Social Code
* The Bayview Boom
Join us to get a sneak peek to these exciting startups, their mission and path to success and for great networking with other people interested in making the world better through business and tech.
For more information and to RSVP, click 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! |
Opportunities for Students |
Stanford 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 register here to attend TreeHacks. There is no application needed for Stanford students. Sign up now!
For more information, visit our website |
Mayfield Fellows Program - Applications Due Monday, Feb 2, 2015
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 |
Let’s Do Lunch and Talk Leadership on Jan. 30
Students are invited to connect over a free lunch at noon with Matias Rivera, founder and president of Chile’s largest crowd-funding initiative and one of the nation’s biggest NGOs. Sign up now here
About Matias Rivera
Matias is founder and president of Reforestemos Patagonia, Chile’s largest crowd-funding initiative and one of the country’s best-known environmental NGOs. Previously, he served as Innovation Advisor to Chile’s Minister of Economy, where he was part of the team that created Start-Up Chile, a successful entrepreneur-magnet program. Matias was also Executive Secretary of the Presidential Competitiveness Agenda, involving 50 initiatives spanning 16 ministries. Among other honors, he was named one of Chile’s top 100 young leaders by El Mercurio. |
Accelerate your Startup: StartX Accelerator Program
StartX accelerates the development of Stanford's top entrepreneurs. StartX charges no fees and takes zero equity.
Join StartX to access:
* Community of over 500 of Stanford’s top entrepreneurs in a wide range industries such as consumer IT, medical and hardware. In aggregate, StartX founders have raised $420M+ with a $2.2M+ average funding rate
* Mentorship from over 200 serial entrepreneurs, experts, angels and VCs, including execs from Palantir, LinkedIn, Google, and Twitter
* Resources $100K+ in value, including cloud computing services and drop-in office space and legal advice
* Education through company-specific real-time, customized programming and on-demand experts
* Access to funding through the Stanford-StartX Fund
Apply by February 1st here
Learn More:
Info Session: January 26th 7-9pm @ StartX, 2627 Hanover St, Palo Alto |
Volunteer and Attend Venture Summit | West 2015
This exclusive venture capital summit will bring together over 500 VCs, Corporate VCs, Private Investors, Investment bankers and CEOs of cutting edge companies, will feature an impressive line-up of more than 70 VCs on interactive panels; presentations from more than 60 Top Innovators and high-level networking opportunities.
Students interested in volunteering and attending the summit, please email si...@youngstartup.com |
TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy Summer Internships
Are you passionate about Sustainability or Renewable Energy?
The TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy is working with several exciting sustainable energy start-up companies to help recruit talented Stanford students for PAID summer internship positions. The objectives of the summer internships are for students to gain work experience, develop applied engineering knowledge, learn entrepreneurship in a start-up environment, and build upon their academic studies.
See the summer 2015 positions
Applications are due by February 16, 2015 |
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 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 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 |
Summer Intern Position at D.E. Shaw Group
The D. E. Shaw group is currently hiring for summer intern positions in our Hong Kong office, and we're now accepting applications. All of our open positions are listed on our website, where you can learn more about who we are and what we do. |
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