E*ntrepreneurship @ Rensselaer
The Office of E*ntrepreneurship provides leadership and coordination for campus entrepreneurship activities and stages several events focused on enhancing the student, faculty and alumni experience at Rensselaer.
For details go to:
http://www.eship.rpi.edu/index.html
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The 2009 William F. Glaser '53 Rensselaer Entrepreneur of the Year Celebration
Presenter(s): A. P. (Preetham) Parigi, Managing Director & CEO, Times Infotainment Media Ltd., and Director, Bennett, Coleman & Co., Ltd. (The Times of India).
Air Date: 4/8/2009
Air Time: 2:00 PM EST
Length: 2 Hours 18 Minutes 52 Seconds
Radio: Who Knew it Could be So Hot? Sometimes, innovation means making the old new again, and in the process an entire country is transformed. A.P. "Preetham" Parigi, managing director of Entertainment Network (India) Limited (ENIL), and managing director and CEO of Times Infotainment Media Limited, will be awarded the 2009 William F. Glaser '53 Rensselaer Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Witness a story of Social Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Global Impact and the Revival of an "Old Technology" in an emerging country. 200 Million Listeners. 32 Cities. 10 Languages. Radio was a ubiquitous, but ignored, technology at the time of Radio Mirchi's launch in 2000 when India privatized the radio industry. State radio covered 98 percent of India, but it ignored the 600 million Indians under the age of 30. It was this reality that fueled Parigi's passion that Radio Mirchi could become a "hot" brand in the world's second most populous country, and set the tone for what would be the birth of a whole new kind of media company.
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New Horizons Speaker Series: Venture Start-up & Dev.
Presenter(s): Ralph Taylor-Smith
Air Date: 2/12/2008
Air Time: 4:00 PM EST
Length: 1 Hour 35 Minutes 27 Seconds
Ralph is a General Partner of Battelle Ventures L.P. and Innovation Valley Partners L.P. He covers all aspects of the venture business, including deal sourcing, due-diligence, deal negotiation and transaction closing, Board of Director duties, and start-up company development. He has led or co-led various venture investments for the firm including BioVigilant, Hi-G-Tek, Rajant, RemoteReality, Sypherlink, and he serves on the Board of Directors for each of these Companies. Prior to entering the venture capital industry, Ralph gained significant experience in technology R&D, business development and investment banking. He worked previously as a Senior Research Scientist at Bell Labs, in Business Development at Lucent Technologies, and as an Investment Banker on Wall Street at GoldmanSachs and JPMorgan.
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New Horizons Speaker Series: Social Entrepreneurship
Presenter(s): Millard Fuller
Air Date: 1/22/2008
Air Time: 4:00 PM EST
Length: 1 Hour 5 Minutes 9 Seconds
Millard started his entrepreneurial career early – as a student at Auburn University – where he and a friend began a marketing firm while still in school. Their business prospered and not content to luxuriate in success, Millard and his wife set out on a mission to give back – which they did in a big way. They gave up all of their possessions and pursued several enterprises focused on building modest houses on a no-profit, no-interest basis for families with low incomes. In 1973, the Fullers moved to Africa to test their affordable housing model in Zaire –now the Democratic Republic of Congo. With that effort as a success, they moved back to the U.S. in 1976 and founded Habitat For Humanity – which may be the ultimate example of social entrepreneurship. For the next 29 years, they devoted their energies to expanding Habitat For Humanity worldwide with more than 200,000 homes built in 100 countries. In 2005, Millard and Linda Fuller founded the Fuller Center for Housing to raise money to further eliminate poverty housing and make decent shelter available to all. Millard Fuller is the recipient of many prestigious, international awards and has also received more than 50 honorary doctoral degrees from colleges and universities and he is the author of ten books. The Office of Entrepreneurship is very pleased that he has taken the time to come to Rensselaer to share his wonderful story of social entrepreneurship and his experiences with us.
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Selling Technology
Presenter(s): Don McMurtry '86
Air Date: 12/4/2007
Air Time: 4:00 PM EST
Length: 1 Hour 14 Minutes 41 Seconds
The Office of E*ntrepreneurship works closely with Rensselaer alumni entrepreneurs who provide support, resources and counsel to students and faculty. We are proud to salute their success and their generosity in helping others in finding new ways to think, learn and succeed through E*ntrepreneurship at Rensselaer. Don McMurtry ’86 joined Research In Motion (RIM) — the company behind the BlackBerry — in 1993 when the wireless-data market was just emerging. He became vice president of sales in 1997 and helped launch BlackBerry in 1999. McMurtry retired in May 2006 and returned to Rensselaer in the spring of 2007 to spend a semester lecturing and advising students in the Lally School.
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2007-2008 Engineers Without Borders
Presenter(s): George Roter
Air Date: 11/6/2007
Air Time: 4:00 PM EST
Length: 1 Hour 16 Minutes 15 Seconds
George Roter is one of Canada’s emerging leaders in the non-profit sector. He strongly believes that Canadians are passionate about driving social change both within the country’s borders and abroad. He has dedicated the past 7 years of his life to building organizations that engage a broad cross-section of people, and specifically foster the involvement of the next generation of leaders. Most of that dedication and effort has been focused on building Engineers Without Borders (EWB), an organization that, together with Parker Mitchell, he co-founded and where he continues to serve as Co-CEO. George initially became interested in international development while completing his Bachelor’s degree in engineering at the University of Waterloo. He quickly learned that technology could drive extraordinary change in the lives of the poorest people in the world, and that the engineering community had not been tapped into as a resource.
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2007-2008 Incubator Insights - A How to Guide
Presenter(s): Dinah Adkins
Air Date: 10/23/2007
Air Time: 4:00 PM EST
Length: 1 Hour 23 Minutes 59 Seconds
Entrepreneurs apply initiative, creativity and innovation to transform ideas and navigate new horizons ahead of others. In a variety of informative and entertaining formats - lectures, panels and the E*ntrepreneurs' Studio -- our New Horizons E*ntrepreneurship Speaker Series speakers also take us to new horizons by sharing their practical experiences, wisdom and perspectives in social, scientific, design, diversity, corporate, social networking, environmental and global entrepreneurship.
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2007-2008 Entrepreneurship & Design
Presenter(s): Brendan Boyle, Partner & Design Leader IDEO, Robert A. Chernow, Vice Provost for Entrepreneurship
Air Date: 10/2/2007
Air Time: 4:30 PM EST
Length: 1 Hour 21 Minutes 47 Seconds
Entrepreneurs apply initiative, creativity and innovation to transform ideas and navigate new horizons ahead of others. In a variety of informative and entertaining formats - lectures, panels and the E*ntrepreneurs' Studio -- our New Horizons E*ntrepreneurship Speaker Series speakers also take us to new horizons by sharing their practical experiences, wisdom and perspectives in social, scientific, design, diversity, corporate, social networking, environmental and global entrepreneurship.
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2006-2007 E*ntrepreneurship "New Horizons" Lecture Series, Part 2
Presenter(s): Robert A. Chernow, Vice Provost for Entrepreneurship, Stuart Benton
Air Date: 4/3/2007
Air Time: 4:30 PM EST
Length: 1 Hour 37 Minutes 33 Seconds
In this, the second of three inaugural lecture series sessions, Rensselaer alumnus Stu Benton '62 and Vice Provost for Entrepreneurship Rob Chernow will take participants through seven key steps in assessing, planning, raising funds, and managing growth in any new venture, be it commercial, social, cultural, scientific, or technological. Pizza and refreshments will be served. Registration for seating is recommended; for more information or to register on-line, please refer to the URL below. http://www.eship.rpi.edu
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