Wednesday, August 5, 2009 -- MIT Enterprise Forum San Diego. With more than 500 founders and executives of growth companies, business development personnel, investors, service providers, this industry networking social creates an opportunity for technology sector leaders and entrepreneurs across all segments to connect in a relaxed and inspiring setting. Networking event. This has become the chapter's signature event, and is widely recognized as the premier networking event for San Diego's technology and biotechnology community.

Saturday, October 11, 2008 -- "Successful Companies Through Incubation: SoCal Incubators Serve the High Tech Industry" Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum. The Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum on October 11 will feature some of the award-winning business incubators supporting the high tech industry in Greater Los Angeles. What type of entrepreneurial companies benefit from those incubators? Come hear about the regional business incubator network and get answers to your questions about how they can benefit your business, including: What is a business incubator and what types are available?

Saturday, December 6, 2008 -- "Building a Virtually Integrated Life Sciences Company" Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum. Smaller companies, often startups, are also using technologies developed at non-profit institutions to develop new lead compounds, new manufacturing methodologies, and new drug delivery vehicles, rather than invest in their own in-house early stage research.The December 6, 2008 session of the Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum will focus on the new business model for the biotechnology entrepreneur. The traditional business model dominating the pharmaceutical industry for over 100 years is rapidly eroding under new drivers for innovation and increasing financial pressures.

Wednesday, October 15, 2008 -- The MIT Enterprise Forum of the Central Coast Presents: Technology Space - The Final Frontier for Growth of Companies in Santa Barbara? Are you thinking about starting a company and want to know about facilities in the area? Do you have out-of-the-box thoughts on how to resolve our technology space issue? The October 15th program brings together Have you ever come up against a wall when trying to find "technology space" in the Santa Barbara region? The program presents some of the challenges in obtaining technology space and what

Saturday, February 7, 2009 -- "Neurons on the Run: Brain, Brawn and Algorithms" Caltech/MIT enterprise Forum. The Caltech MIT Enterprise Forum will examine the progress in neural interactive medical devices, whether implantable or external, and the place of the entrepreneur in this captivating field. We will discuss the progress-to-date, the promise for the future, present priorities, the opportunities for entrepreneurs, and the prospects for private capital See http://entforum.caltech.edu/... mor

I'm blogging from the CalTech Enterprise Forum . The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform? A very interesting topic, especially for those of us involved in developing for start-ups. VRM - his company - goal is to provide a Level 4 platform. First At the CTO Group that I organize in Santa Monica, we've had lots of discussions around this. The basic conclusion was that it was a bit premature if you were talking about a serious, funded start-up.

My first job out of school was at one of the early bioinformatics companies in Silicon Valley, working as the head of technical services. However, on the other hand, some ideas are more sensitive than others especially in the development phase, and an entrepreneur should be careful to disclose the idea only to those in whom he/she has a reasonable level of trust and who are genuinely in a position to help the company. There is a reason that companies Visible networking is turning into a really great opportunity to get to know people better, get to meet new people, and have some interesting conversations.

MIT Enterprise Forum of San Diego. Some start up companies see bad times as an opportunity and will thrive in the face of this global economic crisis. Wednesday, February 18, 2009 -- Building Your Business in the Face of Global Competition: Entrepreneurship in Difficult Times. If you're an entrepreneur, you always see the glass half full; "difficult economic times" is just another way of saying "exciting new opportunities ahead."

Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum. Our experts will also review the prospects for private capital to fund promising companies and the hurdles and risks such companies face. We will showcase two companies currently in the race who have both a ��WOW�� factor but also hopefully a successful ��$$WOW$$�� result. Saturday, March 13, 2010 -- Medical Devices and Pharmaceuticals: Great Opportunity and Great Challenges. Our program will explore the ��wow�� factor of cutting-edge medical devices that deliver pharmaceuticals with pinpoint accuracy to diseased locations within the body.

Saturday, March 14, 2009 -- Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum. With a newly open economy and a powerful technology industry, India offers attractive global marketing opportunities for tech companies in California. India, the world's largest democracy, offers an important growth market for American tech companies. Investment, intellectual property, RandD and innovation are starting to flow in both directions: almost every blue chip venture capital partnership now has an Indian operation. Equally important, Indian investors such as Baring have begun looking to the US for opportunities.