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DEN Potomac
Thursday, June 26, 2008
6:30—8:00 pm
Tragara Ristorante, 4935 Cordell Avenue. Bethesda, MD
DEN Potomac presented an evening of networking for entrepreneurs, VC/PE professionals, and professional service providers. With special guest Wayne Bardsley D'70, Founder and President of Government Scientific Source, Inc. entitled “From Employee to Employer."
This event opened a series of events featuring successful Dartmouth graduates who launched their businesses locally and will share their stories.
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DEN Seattle Networking Happy Hour
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
6:00—8:30 pm
Nectar Lounge in Freemont (on the patio)
A networking event was held on the patio at Nectar Loung in Fremont from 6:00-8:30 pm on June 18th to give members, new and old, a chance meet and get to know one another. Those in attendance, can talk about their latest project, learn about the newest Seattle area Dartmouth startup or just get to know some interesting local alums with an interest in entrepreneurship.
All alumni, students and family of Dartmouth, Thayer, Tuck, DMS, and alumni of other Dartmouth programs were invited toone of the best happy hours in Seattle. To learn more about DEN Seattle, please visit www.denseattle.org/.
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DEN Seattle Marquee Event
Thursday, May 1, 2008
The Swedish Club, Seattle
1920 Dexter Avenue North
Seattle, WA
Two Dartmouth-Amazon alumni and two Dartmouth-Amazon current execs discussed the early days of Amazon and how the company has continued to innovate and grow so rapidly (and profitably since 2002). Alumni joined us and heard a few first-hand stories behind Amazon's success and lessons learned along the way!
Panelists included:
Steve Kessel D'87, Senior VP of Worldwide Digital Media at Amazon.com
Jeff Blackburn D'91, Senior Vice President of Business Development at Amazon.com
Bill Price D'71, President of Driva Solutions; author of "The Best Service is No Service: How to Liberate Your Customers from Customer Service, Keep Them Happy & Control Costs;" former Global VP of Customer Service at Amazon.com
Christopher Paye D'90, CEO, Positronic; former VP of Electronics at Amazon.com
For information about DEN-Seattle, please visit www.denseattle.org/
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DEN Boston Marquee Event
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
The Charles Hotel, Harvard Square
The story of a Repeat Entrepreneur: An Evening with Steve Hafner D'91
Founder of Orbitz and Kayak.com.
For for information about DEN Boston events, please visit t www.denboston.org/
Premiere Sponsors
Venture Sponsors
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Founders’ Forum
Monday, April 7, 2008
Rosenwald Classroom, Byrne Hall, Tuck School
On April 7th the Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network (DEN), the Tuck Center for Private Equity and Entrepreneurship, the Club of Dartmouth Entrepreneurs (CODE), and the Tuck Entrepreneurship Club continued the Founders’ Forum series with a workshop, “Startups and Family: Can You Do Both?”
Work life issues demand trade-offs. More and more entrepreneurs, startup teams, and families are talking about how to achieve their entrepreneurial goals without damaging their family and life priorities. In standard Founders’ Forum format, Jaimee and Tim Healy D’91, T’02 (CEO, Chairman & Co-Founder of EnerNOC) and Jason D'90 and Lisa D'90 Kable(Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Artemis Woman, LLC) will talk about their challenges and successes in finding a balance between family life and demanding entrepreneurial careers. This will be alively Founders’ Forum with a twist.
This workshop was sponsored by:
Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network (DEN)
Tuck Center for Private Equity and Entrepreneurship
Portman Entrepreneurial Leadership Fund at the Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth
More about the Founders’ Forum Series:
The Founder’s Forum series brings successful entrepreneurs to campus to examine their backgrounds, their careers, and their insights into successfully launching entrepreneurial ventures.
This Founders’ Forum is open to all members of the Dartmouth, Tuck, Thayer, DMS, and DHMC Community: alums, staff, faculty, students and friends and family.
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introduction to entrepreneurship class Begins
monday, january 7, 2008
Stoneman classroom, Murdough Center, tuck school
Introduction to Entrepreneurship is designed to provide basic education in commercialization of technology, entrepreneurship and the starting of new business ventures. The course will address the fundamentals in major areas of conceptualizing and launching a successful new business, including:
-Concept development
- Business plan development
- Market and competitive assessment
- Team building
- Financing and investor presentations
- Execution
Introduction to Entrepreneurship is open, at no cost, to anyone eligible for a dartmouth.edu, hitchcock.org or dartmouth.alum.org email address, and friends and family of the DEN. Students will be exposed to the startup process in detail. The course will combine lectures, visiting speakers, workshop sessions, and readings. Throughout the term, participants will develop an executiv e summary of a business idea and a business proposal which they will present, as part of a term, to a panel of potential investors at the conclusion of the course.
Class size will be limited to the capacity of the Rosenwald classroom (69) with first priority given to for-credit students. Auditing students are welcome to participate in class and in the startup project work. For auditing students, assignments are optional, but attendance is mandatory. This course is oversubscribed and registration is closed. Please check back next year.
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DEn boston Networking Night is back by popular demand!
March 4, 2008
Vox Populi
755 bOYLSTON sTREET IN bOSTON
Have a new business idea? Looking for help or assistance? Or do you want to support Dartmouth innovators? Whatever your entrepreneurial motivation, please join us for our March networking event.
When: 6:30 - 8:30 pm on March 4th, 2008
Where: Vox Populi, at 755 Boylston Street in Boston
Cost: This event will be free to attend, but we ask you to register using the link below, so we'll know who will be attending. There will be a cash bar.
For more information visit the Vox Populi website at www.voxboston.com.
Format: This is an informal event meant to facilitate networking. The attendee list will be shared in advance and we'll be making it easy to identify entrepreneurs, service providers, VCs, etc. A cash bar will be available.
Approval of DEN Boston Bylaws: Note -- for those of you who are organizationally inclined, we will be meeting at 6:00 pm before this event to approve the bylaws of DEN Boston (currently posted in the members section of our website). If you are interested, please come!
Thanks to our Sponsors:
WilmerHale
Silicon Valley Bank
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DEN Washington, DC Networking Event
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Tragara Ristorante
4935 Cordell Avenue, Bethesda, MD 20814
An evening of networking for entrepreneurs, VC/PE professionals and professional service providers with special guests:
Gregg Fairbrothers '76
Founding Director, Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network (DEN), Dartmouth College
Chair, Dartmouth Regional Technology Center, Dartmouth College
Adjunct Professor of Business Administration, Tuck School of Business
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Phil Ferneau '84, T'96
Managing Director, Borealis Ventures
Adjunct Associate Professor of Business Administration, Tuck School of Business
Fellow, Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network
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DEN Boston Networking Event
November 28, 2007
"The Constant Contact Adventure—From Startup to IPO"
A candid conversation about entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and boards of directors.
Featuring Gail Goodman T'87, CEO, Constant Contact; Mike Fitzgerald, General Partner and Founder, Commonwealth Capital Ventures; and moderated by Professor Colin Blaydon, Director, Tuck's Center for Private Equity and Entrepreneurship.
About DEN Boston:
DEN Boston is a local chapter of the larger Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network (DEN), focused on cultivating entrepreneurship through and within the greater Boston community of Dartmouth, Thayer, Tuck and the Medical School Alumni.
DEN Boston is launching a series of networking events and workshops to foster idea sharing, mentorship, and to bring together aspiring and seasoned entrepreneurs, funders and service providers.
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Founders' Forum
November 5, 2007
On Monday, November 5th the Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network (DEN), the Tuck Center for Private Equity and Entrepreneurship, the Club of Dartmouth Entrepreneurs (CODE), and the Tuck Entrepreneurship Club continued the Fall Founders’ Forum series with entrepreneur Tim Neiley D’68, LPA Design, an electronics and research development firm, now a market leader in precision wireless equipment for photographers. In 1999 Tim capped a 27 year career in sales and marketing by walking away from a senior vice president position at the largest furniture manufacturing company in the world. He moved to Vermont with his family, bought an equity stake in a small technology company and, as CEO, ramped the company to a 28% average annual growth rate over the following seven years. Tim will explain “how a Dartmouth English major and Coast Guard quartermaster can find happiness among PCBs and microchips.”
The Founders’ Forum brings successful entrepreneurs to campus to examine their backgrounds, their career paths, and their insights into successfully launching and managing entrepreneurial ventures. In an interview and Q & A format, Tim will talk about the evolution of his entrepreneurial pursuits: how a non-technical leader found ways to work effectively with technical resources and how his interests, accumulated knowledge, and experience were pulled together in unanticipated ways. We hope you can join us.
This workshop was open to all members of the Dartmouth, Tuck, Thayer, and DHMC Community: alums, staff, faculty, students and friends and family.
This workshop was sponsored by:
Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network (DEN)
Tuck Center for Private Equity and Entrepreneurship
Portman Entrepreneurial Leadership Fund at the Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth
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Founders' Forum
October 9, 2007
On Tuesday, October 9th, the Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network (DEN), the Tuck Center for Private Equity and Entrepreneurship, the Club of Dartmouth Entrepreneurs (CODE), and the Tuck Entrepreneurship Club kicked off the Fall Founder's Forum series with entrepreneurs Richard Green D’75, founder of Corporate Microsystems, Inc., a software firm specializing in data communications, and Dwight Aspinwall D’84, co-founder of Jetboil, Inc., maker of the wildly successful Jetboil personal cooking system.
The Founders' Forum brings successful entrepreneurs to campus to examine their backgrounds, their careers, and their insights into successfully launching entrepreneurial ventures. In an interview and Q & A format, Dick and Dwight will talk about the successful launches of companies each of them founded almost 20 years apart, as well as their collaboration to found and fund Jetboil. Many of the most essential lessons for launching a business can be found in the careers of these two successful entrepreneurs.
This workshop was open to all members of the Dartmouth, Tuck, Thayer, and DHMC Community: alums, staff, faculty, students and friends and family.
This workshop was sponsored by:
Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network (DEN)
Tuck Center for Private Equity and Entrepreneurship
Portman Entrepreneurial Leadership Fund
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DEN Boston Networking Event
August 21, 2007
DEN Boston is back by popular demand! Have a new business idea? Looking for help or assistance? Or do you want to support Dartmouth innovators? DEN Boston is launching a series of networking events and workshops to foster idea sharing, mentorship, and to bring together aspiring and seasoned entrepreneurs, funders, and service providers Whatever your entrepreneurial motivation, please join us for our August 21st networking event.
This is an informal event meant to facilitate networking. The attendee list will be shared in advance and we’ll be making it easy to identify entrepreneurs, service providers, VCs, etc. Cash bar will be available. This event will be FREE, but we ask you to register using the link below, so we'll know who will be attending. If you cannot attend but would like to get involved, be included on future mailings and/or join our Linked in Group, please contact Andrew Blackwell at a_blackwell@ml.com. Please direct questions to: Meagan Nichols at meagan.nichols@morganstanley.com or Jason Gracilieri at jgracilieri@gmail.com.
About DEN Boston: DEN Boston is a local chapter of the larger Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network (DEN), focused on cultivating entrepreneurship through and within the greater Boston community of Dartmouth, Thayer, Tuck and the Medical School.
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den bOSTON iNAUGURAL eVENT
June 7, 2007
Keynote Address by Tim Healy '91, Tu'02; CEO, Co-Founder, & Chairman of EnerNOC
Do you have an idea for a new company, but don’t know where to start? Are you currently working on a start-up and looking to connect with other Dartmouth entrepreneurs? Please join us for an evening of networking and hear one of Dartmouth’s most successful entrepreneurs share his inspiring story as we launch DENBoston, a forum connecting Dartmouth’s entrepreneurship and capital communities in Boston.
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Robert Fleming '78 Founders' Forum
May 14, 2007
On Monday, May 14th Robert Fleming, Founder of Prism VentureWorks, a Boston-area venture capital firm managing $1.25 Billion visited Tuck for the May Founder's Forum. Mr. Fleming founded Prism in 1995 and built the firm into a major Boston-based venture partnership. Prism is noted for the depth of industry and “hands-on” entrepreneurial experience among the partners and investment management team. He served as Managing Partner until 2006. Prism invests in Communications, Software, Digital Living, and Healthcare.
Prior to founding Prism, Mr. Fleming was a General Partner with two venture capital firms, Norwest Venture Capital and the Vista Group. Earlier in his career, Mr. Fleming joined Gartner Group when it was a sub-$10 million company. At Gartner, he founded and ran the Local-Area Communications research service. He began his career as a design engineer of data communications equipment at Dataproducts New England, designing early packet switching (X.25) equipment, time-division multiplexers, and network test equipment.
Mr. Fleming holds an undergraduate degree in Engineering Sciences from Dartmouth College and an MBA from the Wharton School. He currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of Big Brother Big Sisters of Massachusetts Bay, the Board of Overseers of the Newton-Wellesley Hospital, and the Board of Directors of Music and Youth, a program to introduce underprivileged youth to music education.
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financing alternatives for early stage ventures
February 5, 2007
On Monday, February 5th the DEN and Tuck’s Center for Private Equity and Entrepreneurship, with support from the Portman Fund/Rockefeller Center, hosted a workshop: Financing Alternatives for Early Stage Ventures. Jim Lynch, Vice President Commercial Lending Ocean Bank, Jonathan Gould, Vice President, Commercial Lending Group Leader, Northway Bank, Rick Greenwald Th’88, President, Simbex, and DEN Director Gregg Fairbrothers explored alternatives to private equity for financing early stage companies and answered questions from the audience.
Throughout the workshop the conversation repeated returned to the subject of building relationships as one of the important keys to securing early financing. Jim and Rick provided insight to what bankers look before approving loans for startups and first and foremost on their list is a good personal relationship with the owner. Rick Sayles discussed the SBIR process and how the relationships formed before you submit your application can help give you an advantage to earning SBIR funding.
If you would like to view the video from this event please contact Carrie Newton at denet@dartmouth.edu
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The Risks and Rewards of Starting a Company After Graduation
January 8, 2007
On January 8th more than 80 students filled Stoneman Classroom at Tuck for a panel discussion about the personal issue of risk taken by students trying startups right out of school. Matt Marolda T’02, Shyam Yadati Th’01, and Lee Johnson T’05 shared their very different entrepreneurial experiences and DEN Founding Director, Gregg Fairbrothers ’76 moderated the discussion. DEN and Tuck’s Center for Private Equity and Entrepreneurship sponsored the event with help from the Portman Fund/Rockefeller Center.
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EnerNOC Founders' Forum
October 3, 2006
On Tuesday, October 3rd EnerNOC, Inc. president, David Brewster T’02 and CEO Tim Healy’91,T’02 visited Tuck as the featured guests of the Fall Founder’s Forum. Students, staff and faculty filled Ankeny classroom at Tuck to listen to David and Tim share the story of EnerNOC’s rise to success from just an idea to the award-winning company it is today.
While MBA students, Tim Healy ’91, T’02 and David Brewster T’02 began developing a business plan for an idea they had been pondering prior to enrolling in Tuck. Tim and Dave founded EnerNOC in January 2001 to help utilities and grid operators achieve clean and low-cost peak electric capacity reduction through demand response solutions and technologies. Demand response is the reduction of electrical consumption at the end-use customer level in response to price or reliability signals.
Since the Founder’s Forum there have been several exciting developments at EnerNOC. In late October EnerNOC, Inc. announced that it is the first energy management company to become carbon neutral. EnerNOC's purchase of wind, solar, and other renewable energy credits offsets 100% of its carbon emissions footprint. In December the World Economic Forum announced EnerNOC, Inc. as one of its Technology Pioneers for 2007. The Technology Pioneers were nominated by the world’s leading venture capital and technology companies. The final selection from 225 nominees was made by a panel of leading technology experts appointed by the World Economic Forum. EnerNOC also recently received the 2006 Energy Pioneer Award from Platts, the world's leading provider of energy information. The Energy Pioneer Award honors strategic vision, innovation, financial commitment, industry leadership and success. As the sole recipient of this award, EnerNOC was recognized by Platts for capitalizing on a ground-breaking opportunity to change the energy playing field.
For more information visit www.enernoc.com.
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Greener Ventures
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The Portman Family Endowment for Entrepreneurial Leadership Inaugural Lecture April 28, 2006
On Friday, April 28th, Bernie Marcus, co-founder, The Home Depot, shared his story, and revealed what he learned about customers, employees, competitors, growing a business, building a brand, and giving back. Bernie Marcus' vision of a "new and improved home center for the do-it-yourselfer," became reality as The Home Depot. The first three stores opened in Atlanta, Georgia in 1979, and The Home Depot became a modern day success story, revolutionizing the home improvement industry.
The Home Depot is now the world's largest home improvement chain and the second-largest retailer (after Wal-Mart) in the US. With sales of more than $73 billion, there are more than 2,000 stores in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Canada, Mexico, and Puerto Rico.
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Samuel Straface Founder's Forum
April 25, 2006
On Tuesday, April 25th, DEN and Tuck's Center for Private Equity and Entrepreneurship will hosted a Founder's Forum with entrepreneur Samuel Straface. The Founder’s Forum is a series that features a successful entrepreneur sharing their advise on how to turn ideas into a successful businesses.
Samuel Straface has 16 years experience in global sales, marketing and medical R&D at Boston Scientific Corporation and Johnson & Johnson. He co-founded Sensera, Inc., a development stage biological sensor company developing products for the point of care clinical diagnostics market. He was the former Director of New Ventures Group at Boston Scientific Corporation and previously served as the General Manager for three divisions of Johnson & Johnson in Australia. Dr. Straface has also held numerous positions at Ethicon Endo-Surgery, a Johnson & Johnson company. Dr. Straface began his career as a Scientific Officer, researching the neurophysiology of the retina and methods for early diagnosis of neuronal disease. He holds a Ph.D. in neurophysiology from the University of Western Australia and has published articles in his previous field of research.
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Marc Buntaine Founder's Forum
February 23, 2006
On Thursday, February 23rd, DEN, Tuck's Center for Private Equity and Entrepreneurship and the Portman Fund/Rockefeller Center hosted a Founder's Forum with medical device entrepreneur Marc Buntaine. Students, faculty and staff from Tuck and Dartmouth, as well as visitors from DHMC, filled Barclay classroom at Tuck for the interactive two hour session.
DEN Director Gregg Fairbrothers interviewed Marc Buntaine as he told the story of his path from comparative religion major to medical device entrepreneur. After finishing his undergraduate degree, Marc moved to San Francisco where he spent several years restoring old homes. Marc then attended Yale University School of Management where he received his MBA and then took a position as a financial analyst. A few years later Marc joined Bain & Company as a management consultant where he built connections that would eventually take him down the entrepreneurial path.
Over the past 15 years, Marc has founded and directed the growth of three companies, each of which developed new therapeutic technologies, and has successfully sold each to a publicly traded medical company. In 1990, Marc acquired a neurosurgery instruments company for Elekta AB and became the USA President of the Swedish Gamma Knife Radiosurgery company. In 1995, Marc led Surgical Navigation Technologies in its growth from an early stage Image Guided Surgery start-up to sale of the company to a division of Medtronic. In 2000, Marc completed a leveraged buyout from Medtronic of image-guidance technology for application in radiation delivery and then founded Zmed. He directed the growth of Zmed until 2003, when he sold the company to Varian Medical Systems.
Marc shared his struggles, including the lessons learned as an entrepreneur. He provided insight into the world of medical device start ups, including tips for working with the FDA and the art of selling to hospitals.
Marc is currently CEO of Still River Systems, a new company dedicated to commercializing proton beam radiotherapy for cancer treatment.
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Trademarks and Their Place in Intellectual Property Portfolio Management
January 17, 2006
On Tuesday, January 17th, DEN, Tuck’s Center for Private Equity and Entrepreneurship and the Portman Fund/Rockefeller Center hosted a workshop: Trademarks and their Place in Intellectual Property Portfolio Management. Dartmouth students, faculty, staff and other community members filled Stoneman classroom at Tuck to join a discussion with Attorneys Bill Hansen D’74 of Lathrop & Gage and Sean Gorman D’76 of Sheehan Phinney Bass + Green.
Named as one of the World's Leading Trademark Law Practitioners by Managing Intellectual Property magazine, Bill Hansen regularly serves as lead trial counsel in intellectual property matters for Fortune 500 U.S. companies and international companies in cases filed under the U.S. Lanham Act and copyright law. Prior to joining Sheehan Phinney in 2002, Sean Gorman worked in the General Counsel’s Office at Dartmouth College for eighteen years.
Trademarks and service marks are key elements in any company's intellectual property estate, and crucial in a context of brand development. Trademarks are often the most important assets of established businesses. Bill and Sean discussed various aspects of trademark management, from creation, to filing and protection against infringement and answered questions from the audience.