WHY BE AN ENTREPRENEUR?
What It Takes to Succeed

PROGRAM SPONSOR

Times like these can often provide the best opportunities to start new ventures. Lower costs, less competition for critical personnel and resources, and more patient money are some of the advantages for the prospective entrepreneur. But it still comes down to the critical entrepreneurial strengths and competencies needed in today's business environment.

The Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum kicks off its 20th year with an examination of the key attributes required to start and grow successful entrepreneurial ventures. Entrepreneurs come in all sizes, shapes, personalities and backgrounds. This program focuses on how those characteristics fit into today's entrepreneurial landscape and how individuals can adapt their own strengths for successful entrepreneurship. Join us to learn from seasoned entrepreneurs how to put your talents to work in launching new ventures and starting new career paths.

KEYNOTE
Jeff Lawrence
Founder
Trillium Digital Systems

PANELISTS
Louise Wannier
Founder, Chairman and CEO
Enfish Corporation &
Co-founder
Gemstar International

Steven O'Connor, Ph.D.
Chief Executive Officer
Nanostream, Inc.
Founder
Clinical Micro Systems, Inc.

Julie Schoenfeld
President and CEO
OEWaves, Inc.

Others to be announced

MODERATOR/PRODUCER
Ira Moskatel
Attorney
Arnold and Porter

SPONSORSHIP FOR THIS MEETING FROM

ARNOLD & PORTER
Arnold & Porter is a full-service firm with offices in Washington, DC, New York, Los Angeles, Century City, Denver, London, and Brussels, and over 700 lawyers worldwide. The firm's combined track record in the high tech industry includes the successful representation of major computer, Internet and entertainment companies in precedent-setting IP cases and transactions, including the software industry's largest trade secret verdict, ground-breaking Internet trademark and celebrity rights cases, the recent victory of the record companies in the MP3.com litigation, and others.

LOCATION AND TIME
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California

Registration and Continental Breakfast:
7:45 a.m. at Baxter Hall
Program:
9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon at Baxter Lecture Hall

Cost
$40.00 per person ($10 for full-time students with student ID's; free to Caltech students and faculty)

Registrations are taken by fax, email and on-line up to 2pm the day before the event. Pre-registration and pre-payment are required for this event. There are no refunds for no-shows.

FOR INFORMATION
Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum
Industrial Relations Center 1-90
383 S. Hill Avenue
Pasadena, California 91106
626 395-3916 Fax: 626 795-7174
entfor@caltech.edu
http://www.entforum.caltech.edu

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