The student leadership committee would like to thank the following organizations for their invaluable help and support:
Center for Entrepreneurial Studies for providing tremendous institutional support at Stanford for the Entrepreneurship Conference. Center
Directors Chuck Holloway, Irv Grousbeck, and Garth Saloner were extremely generous in donating their time and advice and in helping to shape
the content for this year's Conference; they are outstanding instructors and mentors to the many aspiring entrepreneurs at the Stanford GSB.
Special thanks to CES Executive Director Linda Wells, Associate Director Lisa
Sweeney and Program Manager Nancy Gross. This team has generously
provided the leadership committee with critical planning and logistics assistance. There is no way that the Conference could have come together
successfully without their tireless support and endless patience.
Alexander Atkins Design designed
the conference brochure. Alexander Atkins Design, Inc (AAD) is a full service
design firm with over 25 years of experience. Clients include Fortune 1,000
companies, start-ups, small business, retail stores, universities, and
nonprofits. AAD’s award-winning work includes logos, ads, annual reports,
brochures, publications, websites, and consulting services. For more
information, visit alexatkinsdesign.com,
email Alexander Atkins
or call 650.948.6644.
The Orrick Emerging Companies
Group is a
multidisciplinary group of lawyers that merges deep experience and commitment to
high-growth businesses with a broad national and global platform that scales
with its clients as they grow. Representing more than 500 venture-backed
emerging growth companies in Silicon Valley and more than 600 worldwide, the
Orrick Emerging Companies Group runs a strong network with more than 100 venture
capital firms, banking and accounting firms, national laboratories,
universities, and public companies in the United States, Asia and Europe. The
network is dedicated to working for Orrick’s high-growth clients, which include
eHarmony, RockYou, Meebo, Trion World Network, CipherMax, RNA Networks,
PathoLase and Nanosolar. Exemplifying the group’s commitment to entrepreneurs,
Orrick Emerging features TOTAL ACCESS—a Silicon Valley- and San Francisco-based
series of complimentary breakfast panels and lunch seminars open to the public
and focused on the needs of the start-up and venture capital communities. In
the programs, experts from various industry sectors discuss both business and
legal topics, including “Top 10 Start-Up Mistakes,” “Alternatives to Venture
Financing” and “The Fundraising Series,” which helps entrepreneurs improve their
pitches through constructive critique sessions with venture capitalists. With
more than 100 lawyers in the Orrick Emerging Companies Group, in addition to
Orrick’s 1,100 lawyers in 21 offices worldwide, Orrick truly understands how to
help emerging businesses with their legal and strategic needs.
Finally, we would like to recognize the many dedicated
staff members and enthusiastic student volunteers that have helped to
make this year's conference a reality.
Sincerely,
Travis Everton, Deyan Vitanov, Robert Cherun, G.J. King
Co-Chairs of the
2009 Stanford GSB Entrepreneurship Conference |
