Watch Chris Surdi give his pitch at a CEO national competition in Florida here.
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Personal and Professional Polish Event
What: Personal and Professional Polish Cocktail Hour Workshop (non-alcoholic)
When: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 – 6pm-930pm
Where: University Room, Next to AS Print Shop
The official registration is now open for the Personal and Professional Polish
For more info and to register, visit www.cob.sjsu.edu/gaines_j/elc/polish.htm
This is a truly rare opportunity with one of the nation’s finest experts in personal, professional, communications, and social skill development for the workplace. This is a must for any student desiring to make a good impression in interviews, the workplace, and with other seasoned professionals.
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Will I Win? – How to Conduct Market Research & Feasibility Analysis
What: Will I Win? – How to Conduct Market Research & Feasibility Analysis
When: Saturday October 17th, 10am-1pm
Where: BBC 222 (Boccardo Business Center)
Learn how to win the Neat Ideas Fair, or start your own business.
Come this Saturday to learn how to win the Neat Ideas Fair or how to start your own business. Everybody has an idea, but how do you take the next step? We will teach you how to conduct market research to understand what your market is, and how to find what everyone else is doing and not doing in that industry!
What you will gain:
- Applicable skills, tools, methods, and access to resources during the workshop.
- Information on how to plan for a new business, product, or service
- Highly improved business acumen for any major
- The ability to meet other motivated students who want to start their own business
Workshop facilitator: Michael Merz
Michael Merz is a faculty member in the College of Business, an entrepreneur, and a consultant for start-ups. He works with companies that specialize in social media, experiential marketing, techniques for the employment of creativity in business development, and innovative consumer need analysis. He will be leading an interactive workshop that focuses on teaching tangible skills and providing tangible resources to future entrepreneurs.
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Juice Pitcher Competition on Vator.tv
Below is a great competition from vator.tv and TheFunded.com for all entrepreneurial minds. Thank you, Chris Surdi, for letting us know about this great competition.
“Ten of the hottest early-stage companies will get to give a 3-minute pitch and demo. Presenting founders are selected by their peers via the Juice Pitcher Competition on Vator and will strut their stuff in front of an audience of 300 founders, press, and investors. One lucky presenting company will get to give a shortened 90 second pitch and be reviewed onstage in the “Juice Box,” a special edition of VatorNews’ Vator Box show, where the founding member of TheFunded, Adeo Ressi, Ezra Roizen (digital media investment banker and Vator Box regular) and myself will critique the presenters”
- Bambi Francisco, Founder and CEO, Vator, Inc..
To learn more about the Juice Pitcher Competition and/or to participate click here.
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Principles of a Successful Start-up Team
What: Meeting #2 – “Principles of a Successful Start-up Team”
When: Sept. 21, 2009 – 4:30pm – 5:45pm
Where: BBC 204 @ College of Business, SJSU
At our next meeting, we will be focused on grouping up into teams to enter in our Neat Ideas Fair this fall. If you have an idea but need team members, this will be a perfect time to do so. However, if your not the idea type, you will have the opportunity to look for team members who are in need of people and/or need your skills. Also, if you are not interested in entering the NIF, please come to this meeting anyways.
If you can not make it to this meeting, please use this form if you are looking for team members.
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Million Dollar Business Idea Contest
Update: Thank you to all those who made it out to this meeting. Here are pictures of our first meeting of the year.
When: Sept. 14, 2009 – 8:00 PM
Where: Martin Luther King Library Room #225
Speaker: Adam Cheyer – Co-founder & VP of Engineering, Siri, Inc. [Biography]
First ES Meeting of the Year – “Million Dollar Idea Contest”
- Learn what ES is all about and benefits of joining
- Meet and network with other students and start a team
- Have brainstorm activities and overall idea contest
If you’re interested in checking out ES, this is the best opportunity! This event is our first of the year – it will bring students of majors, interests, backgrounds, skill sets, and personalities together. There is no stereotypical entrepreneur. We will reach across the discipline of the SJSU community to utilize the people, potential, and intellectual property we have yet to tap into.
We will have a brief and inspiring speaker, and students will be given the opportunity to split into groups, brainstorm, settle on an idea, write a mission statement, and share it with the room. We’ll vote, and the winning group will win free ES t-shirts.
Whether you have an outstanding business idea, simply a cool idea for an art project, or a tech innovation, this event welcomes the fullest range of creativity available. You do not have to be a “business person” or business major to come check out ES. If you want to see what ES is all about and experience one of the most invigorating creativity boosts possible, come out to our live brainstorm and sit in on groups as they put heads together and generate creative ideas.
Also: For those who are interested, at 6:00pm, the Silicon Valley Center of Entrepreneurship will have a speaker on Entrepreneurship, more details to come.
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Start a business now!
Want to start a business? We are now accepting new members, so join now! (Future SJSU students are eligible). Work with mentors to get the direction, information, resources, and people you need to:
- Start a business
- Start any type of creative project
- Develop you new ideas
- Improve your technological innovation
Whether you’re a business major with a new business idea, an engineer major with a design for a new product, or an artist or art major who wants to start selling your art, we are a fun support community of students to have!
Some benefits in becoming a member:
- Gain leadership experience
- Hands-on experience with real world business and innovation
- Sales and leadership training
- Mentoring by business leaders within Silicon Valley
- Have access to speakers and conferences
- Workshops
Be part of our business plan competition and our Neat Ideas Fair – Win cash prizes and receive feedback from venture capitalists. What are you waiting for? Join now. Or shoot us an email!
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Download: Neat Ideas Fair Crash Course Packet
The Neat Ideas Fair crash course packet is now up for download. The course packet covers everything you need to know on how to win the NIF competition. Make sure to look at Chris Surdi’s presentation slide here to learn how to give a bangin’ pitch.