Princeton Entrepreneurship Club tag:blogs.princeton.edu,2009:/eclub//546 2009-02-17T17:54:36Z Movable Type Enterprise 1.03 Princeton Entrepreneurship Club Website tag:blogs.princeton.edu,2009:/eclub//546.8570 2009-02-17T17:50:34Z 2009-02-17T17:54:36Z To all those who are still following the Princeton Entrepreneurship Club on this blog: We have a website - http://www.PrincetonEClub.org/! It’s been up since late 2008, and all of our current content is updated there, rather than here on this... Nikhil Basu Trivedi http://www.PrincetonEClub.org/! It's been up since late 2008, and all of our current content is updated there, rather than here on this blog. Thank you for your following; we have made tons of progress as a Club over the past year, and are looking forward to Super Saturday this Saturday, February 21, the finale to TigerLaunch 2009: Princeton's Business Plan Competition. Best wishes, The Princeton Entrepreneurship Club Executive Board]]> Announcing Princeton Pitch 2008: 90 seconds for $1,000 tag:blogs.princeton.edu,2008:/eclub//546.8260 2008-11-10T16:18:24Z 2008-11-10T16:20:33Z You know that brilliant business idea that’s been rattling around your head? Talk about it for 90 seconds for a chance to win $1000! Princeton Pitch 2008 is Princeton’s elevator pitch competition. Students have 90 seconds to pitch their business... Nikhil Basu Trivedi You know that brilliant business idea that's been rattling around your head? Talk about it for 90 seconds for a chance to win $1000! Princeton Pitch 2008 is Princeton's elevator pitch competition. Students have 90 seconds to pitch their business idea to a panel of 5 Venture Capitalists, Angel Investors, and Entrepreneurs to win the grand prize of $1,000. All you need is an idea. Register by November 16th at http://princeton.studentbusinesses.com. Competition will take place at 7:30pm on Wednesday, November 19, 2008 in Friend 101. Catered Reception follows event. Workshop for all contestants with Professor John Danner, Princeton's Visiting Professor in Entrepreneurship on Tuesday, November 18 at 7:45pm in Frist 234. Come watch innovation at Princeton! Hosted by Princeton Entrepreneurship Club. Co-sponsored by Howard Cox '64, Sierra Ventures, Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education, and Projects Board. Recap on Summer: Princeton Entrepreneurship Forum, August 13 2008 tag:blogs.princeton.edu,2008:/eclub//546.8109 2008-09-29T03:28:53Z 2008-09-29T03:35:19Z Here’s Plug and Play Tech Center’s press release from our big event this past summer: Distinguished Alums Share Experiences with Budding Entrepreneurs In the summer of 2005, Mark Jung ‘82 stepped into Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation office. Within an hour... Nikhil Basu Trivedi Here's Plug and Play Tech Center's press release from our big event this past summer: Distinguished Alums Share Experiences with Budding Entrepreneurs In the summer of 2005, Mark Jung '82 stepped into Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation office. Within an hour of meeting, they shook hands and agreed on the sale of his company, IGN, to Fox Interactive. Jung's story was one of many inspiring ones shared by distinguished alums last week at the "Princeton Entrepreneurship Forum," an event held at Plug and Play Tech Center in Silicon Valley, and hosted by the Princeton Entrepreneurship Club, Princeton Club of Northern California, and the Office of Career Services. TigerLaunch 2008 tag:blogs.princeton.edu,2008:/eclub//546.8042 2008-09-12T19:44:56Z 2008-09-12T23:19:20Z TigerLaunch is Princeton University’s $10,000 Business Plan Competition, sponsored by the Entrepreneurship Club and Mr. Howard Cox ‘64. This is an archive of TigerLaunch 2008. Click here to learn about this current year’s TigerLaunch. Calendar of Events November 27, 2007... Joseph Perla Mr. Howard Cox '64. This is an archive of TigerLaunch 2008. Click here to learn about this current year's TigerLaunch.

Calendar of Events

	November 27, 2007 - 5pm			Entry Form/Executive Summary Due
	December, 2007					'How-To' Strategy Sessions
	January, 25, 2008  				Business Plan Checkpoint
	February, 2008 					Workshop
	February 9, 2005 - Sunday - 5pm		Final Business Plan Due
	February 23, 2008 - Saturday - 9am		Super Saturday

Official 2008 Contestants selected

Congratulations to our 10 finalists!
  • Amit Mukherjee
  • Christian Theriault
  • Josh Shulman
  • Pietro Rea Maravi
  • Andrew Knight
  • Seth Priebatsch
  • David Levit
  • Adrian Soviani
  • Jennifer Howard
  • Nickolas Jiang
Thanks to Bob Monsour, Greg Olson, and Ed Zschau for selecting these ten finalists.

Winners:

Grand Prize - SCVNGR - Seth Priebatsch '11 2nd Place - Princeton Biomedical - Christian Thériault (Masters) 3rd Place - BrightBox Learning - Melissa 'Bethani' Massey '10, Jennifer Howard '09, Tiffany Ko '09, Emily Miller '09

Read More:

Thanks to our contest directors:

Selcuk Arkun '10 Sar Medoff '10]]> Talk with Princeton's Entrepreneur In Residence tag:blogs.princeton.edu,2008:/eclub//546.6946 2008-02-02T20:03:30Z 2008-02-02T20:04:41Z Greg Olsen, Princeton’s Entrepreneur in Residence (appointed fall of 2007) is once again holding office hours for students and faculty interested in getting input and guidance on their entrepreneurial ideas. All are welcomed. If you are a participant in the... Joseph Perla https://weblamp.princeton.edu/~officehr/slots.php?blockdefid=1187 The next day for office hours is this coming Wednesday, February 6th, from 1pm to 5pm. Sign up now, before it fills up! Thanks for listening. Regards, -Bob Monsour]]> Student Agencies managers positions tag:blogs.princeton.edu,2008:/eclub//546.6942 2008-02-01T22:34:59Z 2008-02-01T22:38:13Z Sean Weaver of ODUS brings you an opportunity to become a student agency manager: PSA will be having two information sessions for students interested in manager positions. We have several positions vacated by graduating seniors that need to be filled.... Joseph Perla PSA will be having two information sessions for students interested in manager positions. We have several positions vacated by graduating seniors that need to be filled. All the information is on our website www.princeton.edu/agencies
As you know these positions give students a lot of autonomy in running their own business with no financial risk. We're especially encouraging freshman and sophomores to apply. We want to make it clear to everyone that these positions are open to any undergraduate student. Some still believe that these positions are reserved for those who are already involved in the program which couldn't be farther from the truth.
Thanks so much.
]]> PEN Princeton Chapter Renaissance tag:blogs.princeton.edu,2008:/eclub//546.6941 2008-02-01T22:26:10Z 2008-02-02T20:03:20Z The Princeton Entrepreneurs Network (PEN) Princeton Chapter is being brought back to life. We want input from students of the Entrepreneurship Club. You are invited to attend this meeting where we’ll be determining what the organization will have as goals... Joseph Perla become members of the Princeton Entrepreneurs' Network for free. Who: PEN Princeton Chapter What: Inaugural and organizational meeting Where: E-Quad Cafe When: 7PM on Wednesday, February 6th]]> Pre-Seed Funding Opportunities tag:blogs.princeton.edu,2008:/eclub//546.6940 2008-02-01T21:59:43Z 2008-02-01T22:22:18Z Besides the TigerLaunch competition, there are many ways to get initial funding for developing your business idea. Friends and family are a common avenue. Or, you can try to compete for money and services from a pre-seed venture firm like... Joseph Perla TigerLaunch competition, there are many ways to get initial funding for developing your business idea. Friends and family are a common avenue. Or, you can try to compete for money and services from a pre-seed venture firm like YCombinator or DreamIt Ventures. YCombinator was started a few years ago by Paul Graham and a few other entrepreneurs. If selected as a finalist, the firm gives you $15000 - $20000 in funding for a small percentage of your company. You work closely under the company's wing in Boston for the summer (or California for the winter) as they guide you through the ropes of starting a company. Paul Graham emphasizes technical talent over experience. You can sign up for summer funding today: http://www.ycombinator.com/s2008.html . Applications are due April 2nd, but do not delay. Apply as soon as possible. DreamItVentures is a brand new firm with an identical modus operandi, but based in Philadelphia. Moreover, they solely focus on college students, whereas Paul Graham will look at any sufficiently bright engineer. They, like Paul Graham, emphasize buliding a prototype or working product in a short time before the end of the summer. Applications are due March 12. The press release for Dream It Ventures is below. The money can be useful, but is relatively little for starting a real company. When considering these options, remember that they can provide incredible access to venture firms, publicity to gain new customers, and a wealth of experienced mentors to teach you how to build up your first startup. ]]> Press Release for DreamItVentures Philadelphia, PA (January 2, 2008) - www.dreamitventures.com DreamIt Ventures I, LLC launched a revolutionary type of pre-seed venture fund today. The fund is in search of enthusiastic, bright and excessively motivated college students with big ideas who can build a prototype, beta or market ready product or service in three months. DreamIt will run from May 21 through August 22, 2008. DreamIt is designed to provide the next wave of Innovators with the tools, funding and opportunity to turn their ideas into a business. DreamIt provides startup companies up to $30,000 and three months of active mentors and donated legal and accounting services from the Philadelphia regions top firms. The culmination of the program is marked by Funding Day where each company presents to funding sources. This new model for funding will simultaneously accelerate the development of new businesses and increase the likelihood of success for each company by providing the necessary tools. Each company accepted into the program will be partnered with a proven successful entrepreneur to act as a Guru. In addition, DreamIt will be providing each company with the opportunity to work with a full time business Strategist to assist in mapping out commercial issues, writing a business plan and preparing the business for future funding. The combination of great ideas coupled with a dedicated support team will increase the likelihood of success for both the founders of the company and the DreamIt fund. DreamIt is accepting applications through March 12, 2008.]]> Everything you wanted to know about IP but were afraid to ask tag:blogs.princeton.edu,2008:/eclub//546.6938 2008-02-01T21:48:00Z 2008-02-01T22:23:33Z Every year, Professor Ed Zschau, for students of his class, ELE 491: Hi-Tech Entrepreneurship, hosts a special talk about patents, trademarks, copyright, and tradesecrets. This year, Entrepreneurship Club members have a special invitation to come to the workshop. Please come... Joseph Perla Who: Jeffrey Rosedale, Ph.D., J.D., of Woodcock Washburn What: IP Seminar Where: 006 Friend Center When: 4:30-6:00 pm on Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 ]]> A Few Good Links tag:blogs.princeton.edu,2008:/eclub//546.6890 2008-01-15T01:10:37Z 2008-01-15T01:13:46Z Hope everyone had a merry Christmas and is hard at work on their business plans. Selcuk surfed around and found a few links that should be helpful in writing a plan. www.mentorsphere.com: Mentorsphere is a great resource for all contestants... Joseph Perla www.mentorsphere.com: Mentorsphere is a great resource for all contestants to communicate with their mentors as well as outside resources. It is a network that gives you the opportunity to share your documents with the rest of your group. We encourage everyone to register and create their own mentorsphere. http://www.bizplanit.com/free.html : BizPlanIt provides high-quality free business plan resources for the do-it-yourself business plan writer. There are a range of resources on this website that you can use to write your business plan. http://www.sba.gov/smallbusinessplanner/index.html : Small Business Administration has many resources on how to start and run your own business. The section on writing a business plan offers many tips and resources that should help you throughout the process of writing your business plans. Also check out the new documents we uploaded: Business Plan Structure and How to Write a Business Plan. Sar Medoff]]> Official 2008 Contestants selected tag:blogs.princeton.edu,2008:/eclub//546.6892 2007-12-15T01:18:23Z 2008-02-01T22:20:32Z Congratulations to TigerLaunch’s 10 finalists! Amit Mukherjee Christian Theriault Josh Shulman Pietro Rea Maravi Andrew Knight Seth Priebatsch David Levit Adrian Soviani Jennifer Howard Nickolas Jiang Thanks to Bob Monsour and Ed Zschau for selecting these ten finalists.... Joseph Perla TigerLaunch's 10 finalists!
  • Amit Mukherjee
  • Christian Theriault
  • Josh Shulman
  • Pietro Rea Maravi
  • Andrew Knight
  • Seth Priebatsch
  • David Levit
  • Adrian Soviani
  • Jennifer Howard
  • Nickolas Jiang
Thanks to Bob Monsour and Ed Zschau for selecting these ten finalists.]]> First TigerLaunch Workshop tag:blogs.princeton.edu,2007:/eclub//546.6765 2007-12-13T19:09:53Z 2007-12-17T19:11:20Z Dear E-Club, TigerLaunch will be having its first workshop tomorrow evening in the Mathey Private Dining Room from 6:30-7:30 PM. Mr. Darren Hammell (President and CEO of Princeton Power Systems) will be running the workshop on how to take the... Joseph Perla Dear E-Club, TigerLaunch will be having its first workshop tomorrow evening in the Mathey Private Dining Room from 6:30-7:30 PM. Mr. Darren Hammell (President and CEO of Princeton Power Systems) will be running the workshop on how to take the necessary steps from executive summary to business plan. He won the competition while here at Princeton as an undergraduate and has gone on to become a very successful entrepreneur. The workshop is open to all members of the E-club (including those that are not competing in TigerLaunch). It will be a great opportunity to learn about how to get started on a business plan and learn more about the first steps of running your own business. The Mathey Private Dining Room is located underneath the dining hall. If you enter the Mathey dining hall there is a door on your right at the entrance to the servery (before picking up your tray). Go through that door then down the stairs and the dining room should be right in front of you. Please call us at 609-651-7988 if you have any problems. We would really appreciate it if you could email us if you are going to be able to make it to the workshop. Best Regards, Selcuk Arkun and Sar Medoff TigerLaunch Co-Directors email - how we use it, deal with it, and how it could be better tag:blogs.princeton.edu,2007:/eclub//546.6650 2007-11-25T16:10:16Z 2007-11-27T17:31:24Z where: Frist 309 when: Thursday, 11-28-2007 @ 8:30pm what: We all get email; a lot of it. What software and methods do people use to deal with it, and what pros/cons do they have? We’ll talk about some ideas from... Mason Simon http://www.43folders.com/izero) among other things. Could some sort of new software help us to better deal with email? I have an idea; bring yours for discussion. There will be some mediterranean snacks from Olive's!]]> Email Lists tag:blogs.princeton.edu,2007:/eclub//546.6635 2007-11-20T21:34:59Z 2007-12-03T23:11:07Z Manage all of your email lists at Princeton, quickly and easily, at the Subscriber’s Corner. Get on the low-volume speakers list. I also recommend the business and/or hitech lists if you want to know about our regular meetings. Get on... Joseph Perla all of your email lists at Princeton, quickly and easily, at the Subscriber's Corner. Get on the low-volume speakers list. I also recommend the business and/or hitech lists if you want to know about our regular meetings. Get on the jobs lists if you don't have a secure internship/job yet. If you're really active or love to talk, get on the discussion lists.

Here are all of the Eclub's lists:

eclub-l-speakers Click here to subscribe or unsubscribe Whatever your level of free time, definitely subscribe to this list. You will only get e-mails when we bring in speakers a few times a year. We will bring in great speakers, such as self-made entrepreneurs or CEO's like Eric Schmidt and Meg Whitman. By being on this list, you will be sure not to miss out when a big speaker comes. If you have more time, we recommend that you subscribe to some of the lists below. eclub-l-business Click here to subscribe or unsubscribe If you are or want to be an entrepreneur, subscribe to this list. This list will keep you informed about our regular business-oriented meetings (once or twice a month). At the meetings, we will invite entrepreneurs and other successful people to speak with us in a small group settings. Also, we will teach you how to craft a business plan, how to raise money for a company, and how to make your new company succeed. You will get to know a lot of other great Princeton students who are also interested in entrepreneurship. eclub-l-hitech Click here to subscribe or unsubscribe If you love technology, subscribe to this list. This list will keep you informed about our regular technology-oriented meetings (once or twice a month). At the meetings, we will teach you cool hacks, how to make Facebook apps, artificial intelligence, and anything else about the newest technology that we can learn from each other. Also, we will invite successful startup engineers and other successful people to speak with us in a small group settings. We assume at least intermediate knowledge of computers and the Internet. You will get to know a lot of other great Princeton students who are also interested in cutting-edge technology.

Discussion lists:

eclub-l-business-discuss Click here to subscribe or unsubscribe If you love entrepreneurship, subscribe to this list. Once you subscribe, you can send messages to the entire list. This is a very high-traffic list for us to talk about entrepreneurship without worrying about spamming anyone. eclub-l-hitech-discuss Click here to subscribe or unsubscribe If you love technology, subscribe to this list. Once you subscribe, you can send messages to the entire list. This is a very high-traffic list for us to talk about entrepreneurship in a technical light without worrying about spamming anyone.

Some more useful lists:

eclub-l-business-jobs Click here to subscribe or unsubscribe Often, financial firms, consulting firms, and other big companies like to recruit from entrepreneurially-minded students. They like to make sure that students know about internships, jobs, information sessions, leadership bootcamps, and other opportunities. Sometimes, people in the entrepreneurship club already have jobs/internships or are not interested in such offers. So, if you're looking for a business job/internship, make sure you're on this list. If not, then save your inbox. eclub-l-hitech-jobs Click here to subscribe or unsubscribe This list serves the same purpose as eclub-l-business-jobs, except that we post technology-oriented internships/jobs/opportunities here. Google, Microsoft, Amazon, big Hedge Funds, etc all want you. So, subscribe to this list if you want to be informed.

For the Graduated:

eclub-l-alumni Click here to subscribe or unsubscribe Alumni tend not to want to know about many of the business meetings or internship opportunities. Still, it's important to stay connected to the community. Venture-net and Princeton Entrepreneurs' Network are important. So is this. Alumni, and seniors at the end of the year, make sure you get on this list. Everyone else, feel free to unsubscribe until the time comes. eclub-l-alumni-jobs Click here to subscribe or unsubscribe Often, recruiters want access to the best of the best: entrepreneurship club alumns. Sometimes, alumni already have happy jobs. If you have graduated, and are looking for a job, then subscribe to this list. If not, unsubscribe.]]> TigerLaunch Business Plan Competition tag:blogs.princeton.edu,2007:/eclub//546.6633 2007-11-20T20:48:51Z 2008-09-12T23:20:24Z TigerLaunch is Princeton University’s Business Plan Competition, sponsored by the Entrepreneurship Club and Mr. Howard Cox ‘64. Have a great idea for a possible business? Interested in working with other like-minded entrepreneurs? Want to win $$$$$$ to start up your... Joseph Perla Mr. Howard Cox '64. Have a great idea for a possible business? Interested in working with other like-minded entrepreneurs? Want to win $$$$$$ to start up your own business? Sign up for the email lists to find out more about TigerLaunch 2009. Archive: TigerLaunch 2008]]>