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Thursday, Dec 9, 2010ENTREPRENEUR’S JOURNEY 2010 REVISITED
Posted by dgore
- Keynote Address: Yahoo!’s Blake Irving
- Re-imagining Entrepreneurship Education at Pepperdine
- Panel Discussions
- Fast Pitch Highlights
- Photo Gallery
- Sponsors
Presented by the Graziadio School of Business and Management and School of Law Palmer Center for Entrepreneurship and the Law
In 2009, Pepperdine University’s all-day first Entrepreneur’s Journey focused on finding and taking a creative idea to market. This year’s signature celebration covered the challenges of launching new ventures in green technology, how to monetize an idea, tips on accessing investment capital, and guidance on negotiating a term sheet. The day culminated with an alumni fast-pitch competition in which attendees vote and participants compete for a chance to win a cash prize. The video clips below capture the event’s renowned industry speakers, faculty experts and fast-pitch finalists.
The Journey of a Serial Intra-preneur
[46:44 min.]
As Chief Product Officer at Yahoo!, Blake Irving, MBA ’88, leads the company’s products organization, which is responsible for the vision, strategy, design and development of Yahoo!’s global consumer and advertiser product portfolio. He offers lessons learned from being entrepreneurial inside an innovative company that apply equally as well to starting one’s own venture.
Re-imagining Entrepreneurship Education at Pepperdine
[20:40 min.]
The Entrepreneurship Program plans big things for 2011. Larry Cox, Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship, charts the progress of the program thus far and its course for the future.
PANELS
The Green Era – Challenges and Choices for New Entrepreneurs Today
[63:25 min.]
- Moderator: Susanna Kass, MBA ’88, Executive Advisor, TPG Growth Energy Fund and Goldman Sachs Smart Grid
- Nathalie Hoffman, Managing Member, California Renewable Energy, LLC
- Praful Kulkarni, EMBA ’91, Founder, President and CEO, GKK Corp
- Bill Vogel, CEO, Apparent Energy, Inc.
Negotiating The Deal
[52:35 min.]
- Moderator Peter Robinson, Managing Director, Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, Associate Professor of Law, Pepperdine University
- Scott Fennel, J.D. ’88, Member, Level 11
- Dan Smith, J.D. ’04, Counsel, Guitar Center, Inc.
- Deborah S. Sweeney, MBA ’97, J.D. ’98, Owner and CEO, MyCorporation
- Michael Woronoff, Partner, Proskauer Rose LLP
Monetizing Your Idea
[52:22 min.]
- Moderator: Arif Shakeel, MBA ’81, Board Director, Western Digital
- Andrea Belz, MBA ’07, President and Chief Visionary, Belz Consulting
- Sherylle Mills Englander, Director, Office of Technology & Industry Alliances, University of California, Santa Barbara
- John Shearer, Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Practitioner Faculty of Entrepreneurship, Graziadio School of Business and Management, Pepperdine University
Financing Your New Venture
[63:37 min.]
- Moderator: Scott Alderton, Founder and Partner, Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, LLP
- Bill Collins, Member, Tech Coast Angels
- Kevin Jacques, Partner, Palomar Ventures
- Greg Martin, Managing Director, Archer Venture Capital
- Dana Settle, Partner, Grecroft Partners
- Rick Smith, Co-founder and Managing Director, Crosscut Ventures
FAST PITCH HIGHLIGHTS
MBA student Gina Warren, a 2006 graduate of Seaver College, earned the $1,000 cash prize, in addition to a generous in-services package from MyCorporation worth $1,400 in the first-ever Pepperdine Fast Pitch Competition. Watch her and the three finalists deliver their audience-favored 90-second presentation.
Gina Warren
20 Month MBA, April 2011
Memoir Studios
Grand Prize Winner
Shannon Meairs
MSOD 2007
The SPARX Group
Finalist
Brian Philpott
JD 2005
Zipidi Mobile Vehicle Diagnostics
Finalist
Nancy Yu
Fully Employed MBA, 2011
THE SITTER
Finalist
PHOTO GALLERY
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