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.

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.

“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.

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.

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.