Wednesday, March 18, 2009 -- Bootstrapping Your Start-up: Lessons Learned from Building a Business During a Recession. MIT Enterprise Forum of the Central Coast. Dave Gross, one of the founders of Fastclick, will present the lessons he learned in building his local internet media company between 2000 and 2003. Building a business is challenging enough during times of economic expansion. Learn how one entrepreneur built a successful business during a recessionary environment.

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? Have you ever come up against a wall when trying to find "technology space" in the Santa Barbara region? 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 a start-up out of UCSB, CytomX; a mid-size company, Allergan Medical, that purchased a Santa Barbara company, Inamed; and an insider in the process of learning what it takes to get technology space from the "wish" stage to actual development.

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. The basic conclusion was that it was a bit premature if you were talking about a serious, funded start-up. At the CTO Group that I organize in Santa Monica, we've had lots of discussions around this. Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning...

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."

My first job out of school was at one of the early bioinformatics companies in Silicon Valley, working as the head of technical services. That's where I learned I enjoyed interacting with customers and working with development teams to build and launch products. From there, I became the first non-founder employee at an e-commerce startup called BITSource, which was the first electronic software distributor delivering electronic volume software licenses to corporations. 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.

Successful Venture in Challenging Times" Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum. Planning to start a company? Hear from a panel of six experts what it takes to launch and grow a start-up in this difficult economic environment. Anyone running a company or thinking about starting one will want to hear what lessons these seasoned entrepreneurs and venture capitalists have learned. Saturday, January 10, 2009 -- "War Stories from the Front Line: Critical Critical Insights on Building a Successful

You'll also have access to the list of attendees from all the past events you've signed up for. Review: None Added 11/8/09 by Todd Zebert Name: Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum Sites: www.entforum.caltech.edu , twitter.com/CaltechMITForum Self-description: " About the Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum The Caltech/MIT Enterprise forum is a joint venture of Caltech's Industrial Relations Center, Caltech’s Office of Technology Transfer, the Caltech Alumni Association and the MIT Alumni Association. This is will be a continually updating post. I'll be creating additional lists for educational , chamber of commerce, etc.

Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum. This event will examine the future landscape in new media revenue models with a keynote presentation, company presentations and a panel of expert speakers from many content channels including entertainment executives, internet thought leaders, investors, industry associations and innovative startups. Saturday, February 6, 2010 -- New Media Revenue Models: Growing Greenbacks in the Digital Ecosystem. The New Media ecosystem is growing rapidly with content distribution networks, mobile devices and social networks connecting and interconnecting consumers

MIT Enterprise Forum of the Central Coast. Yet its operations can be daunting for startups, cumbersome for established companies, and sub-optimal in rewarding universities for their vital contributions to our economic strength and quality of life. Wednesday, January 20, 2010 -- From University Labs to the Marketplace: The Technology Transfer Engine of Innovation. For decades, technology developed in university and government labs has moved into the U.S.