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March 15, 2005

WSA Government IT summit June 15, 2005

At the risk of becoming an announce Blog for upcomming events, here is yet another one. I probably will not be going as selling to the government is about as interesting as watching paint dry in my book. But they certainly are spending alot of money these days!








Government IT Summit: Better IT Solutions through Effective Partnerships

Co-sponsored by WSA, FCW (Federal Computer Week) Events and Celerity Works



Wednesday, June 15, 2005

8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Westin Hotel, Seattle



Join 150 Industry and government IT executives and program managers to discuss the critical challenges and technologies
necessary to advance the state of IT in federal, state and local government.

This one-day event, coming on the heels of the successful formation of the first WSA B2G Special Interest Group, promises
to become the annual conference of choice for industry and government executives. With outstanding keynote speakers,
separate tracks for small business, integrators, suppliers and government, this is an outstanding industry sponsorship
opportunity in a rapidly growing Federal and State and Local market.

  • Registration: Early registration will open in mid-March at
    www.e-gov.com

  • Sponsorship: For detailed information (.pdf)
    click here, and contact the Event Account Representative at 800.746.0099 or fcwevents@fcw.com to secure your sponsorship.

  • Information: For program information, contact Michael Lisagor at lisagor@celerityworks.com



    Government Advisory Board:

    * Roy Atwood, Special Assistant for Government Affairs, General Services Administration

    * Daryll L. Nottingham, Director IT Solutions, FTS Region 10

    * Bill Schrier, Chief Technology Officer, City of Seattle

    Industry Advisory Board:

    * Ken Castillo, Contracts Manager, Attachmate Corporation

    * Jane Glass

    * J.D. Hammerly, North American Vice President, AREVA T&D

    * Michael Lisagor, Program Chair and President, Celerity Works

    * Bart Preecs, Business Development Manager, Washburn Communication

    * John Raffetto, Senior Vice President, Infotech Strategies



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    March 14, 2005

    Venture All Stars 2006 open for nominations!

    Venture All Stars
    News, Events & Updates


    Hello All,


    Applications to be a Venture All Star are now being accepted!
    If you missed last week's announcement - applications for the Venture All Stars awards are now being accepted online. Over 125 companies from the Northwest applied last year and celebrated the best of breed at the awards gala at Chateau St. Michelle. This year will be a production like no other and will be held at the New Castle Golf course.


    Event Date: Friday, June 3, 2005
    Location: Newcastle, Washington, USA ( Bellevue )
    Awards Gala Venue: The Golf Club at Newcastle | St. Andrews Ballroom
    Time: Golf 8am-12pm  |  Awards 5pm-11pm
    Website/Registration Form: http://www.ventureallstars.com  
    Phone: 206-675-1800   |    Email: selectionteam@ventureallstars.com







    Selection Team Chairs: George Hunter, President, Leading Edge BC, Gary Ritner, Manager, Puget Sound Venture Club, Jim McCreight & Mike Parrott, Oregon Entrepreneurs Forum.



    Supporting VC Funds: Arch Venture Partners, Beurk Dale Victor, LLC, Encompass Ventures, Ignition Partners, IDG Ventures, Kirlan VC, Madrona Venture Group, NWVA, OVP Venture Partners, Rustic Canyon Partners, and WRF Capital among others.



    Sponsors: NASDAQ, PRNewswire, Leading Edge BC , Canadian Consulate, Sound Leasing, Big Ink, Darby Law.



    Scramble Golf Tournament with over $2,000 towards the winnings purse
    For all of you golfers, Venture All Stars has just announced our Venture All Stars Tournament and Social at the Plateau Golf Course, Tickets are on sale now. Get your team together or join in as a single for this exciting shotgun scramble and social event.







    Tim over at Venture All Stars does a good job every year gathering up the best start-ups in the Northwest and showing them off. Pretty much the entire NW venture community is involved. Here is the opening shot invitation for this year:










    Date:

    Monday, April 18, 2005

    Time:

    8am Tee Time   

    Location:

    Plateau Golf Course        

    Price:

    $225


    Click here to see more or to reserve


     


    Multi-Media Executive Handbook - Now just $39,95!
    The Multi-Media Executive Playbook contains audio, Power Point presentations and PDFs of presentations given by the likes of Todd Leiweke (CEO Seattle Seahawks), Eric Landheer (Managing Director NASDAQ), Mark Heesen (President National Venture Capital Association) and others at the 2004 Executive Playbook event at the Bell Harbor International Convention Center in Seattle, Washington.


    This CD is filled with dynamic, informative and entertaining presentations and lessons that are a must for entrepreneuers, executives and investors alike.


    Click here to see more or to purchase


     


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    March 7, 2005

    Some free start-up advice...

    Altus Alliance, a local business consulting company held a workshop for local start-ups back in January. For those that missed it, they have helpfully posted the presentation on their site: CEO Briefing with Mark Leslie. Most of the information will be old hat for anyone who has been through one start-up at the C level, but for everyone else the concepts will be enlightening. If you are thinking about starting a company it is a good read. Along with Startup and The Nudist on the Late Shift (my two personal favorites).

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    DWT BioEngineering gig this thursday

    Davis Wright Tremaine puts on a good venture speaker series. The next one is this thursday on bioengineering and bio IT. I will be there.
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    Davis Wright Tremaine is proud to present the
    Venture Series for the Puget Sound area venture capital and private equity community.
    Davis Wright Tremaine

    The next
    Venture Series will take place Thursday, March 10, 2005 at
    The Rainier Club, featuring Dr. Yongmin Kim, Professor and
    Chair of the Bioengineering Department at the University of
    Washington. Dr. Kim's area of focus covers medical imaging
    and computing, electronic medicine, and distributed
    diagnosis and home health care. He is also the Hunter and
    Dottie Simpson Endowed Chair in Bioengineering and Director
    of the University of Washington's Image Computer Systems
    Laboratory.


    Dr. Kim
    has received numerous awards and honors in the medical
    imaging and bioengineering areas and has a long history of
    patenting and commercializing licenses in that
    area.


    He will
    review for us current work at the University of Washington
    Bioengineering Department, which is considered as one of the
    best (if not the best) in the nation, as well as his own
    views of future interesting research areas.


    DWT's
    Venture Series presents speakers and topics of particular
    interest to the investment community, allowing them an
    opportunity to ask questions of experts and leaders in
    various industries in an intimate setting with their peers
    and other investment professionals. Each program features a
    private reception followed by a keynote
    presentation.


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    The Rainier
    Club, Rainier Room
    820 Fourth Avenue
    Seattle,
    Washington


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    The headline you DON'T want over your picture

    Dot-Con Job is the headline over Naveen Jain's picture on the cover of the Sunday Seattle times. Generally I find local media quite unfriendly to business. They tend to focus on the negative to sell papers. Unfortunately in this case I must agree. Due to a two year intensive campaign by the Seattle Times, they have gotten access to documents previously sealed by a court. This is good journalism. For better or worse, now it is clear that Seattle has its own Enron. Martha has nothing on Naveen. The documents show a pattern of deception and mis-representation of information to analysts and investors (Martha only traded on inside information on ANOTHER stock, not her own). Read the articles. You will find a case study on being caught up in the moment with personal greed gone wild (by everyone involved, investors, investment bankers, the company, accountants, etc.). Infospace was a product of the times. Investors wanted to believe the impossible was possible and Naveen sold the dream very well. Selling the dream is not criminal. Lying about progress toward the dream is. Covering up missteps along the path is. Creating a pyramid scheme is. Unfortunately from this series it seems that Naveen and some of the others crossed the line.

    I don't expect this to be the end, I expect it to be the beginning of a new chapter. The Seattle Times would like nothing more than to have an Enron to report on locally. They will create one if they have to.

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    March 3, 2005

    Brad Silverberg on the ABCs of a venture business.

    Brad Silverberg, a partner at Ignition, has started contributing a tech column to Business Week. Here is the first: The ABCs of Tech Success. It borrows heavilly from Rich Tong and John Zagula's Marketing Playbook, which everyone with a start-up should read.

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    March 15 technology showcase

    this one looks to be fun. I will be there.

    Martin:  On March 15 the Northwest Entrepreneur Network is holding its Technology Showcase, featuring 35 to 40 disruptive technologies from 9 Northwest research institutions. The full description of the event is below. If you know of entrepreneurs who should be attending this event to find their next cool piece of technology, please forward them this email. You’re welcome to attend as well, of course. With this many technologies in town, we want to make sure we have a good turn-out!  Connie

     

    Connie Bourassa-Shaw

    Executive Director

    Northwest Entrepreneur Network

    425 564-5700 (direct)

    425 564-5701 (office)

    www.nwen.org

    From Start to Success

     

     

    More than $2 BILLION a year is spent on research at
    Pacific Northwest universities and institutions.

     

    Come see some of the results of that research investment on March 15, 2005. At the Northwest Entrepreneur Network’s 2005 Technology Showcase & Networking Night, you’ll see 35 to 40 licensing-ready technologies that have tremendous start-up potential. These “up-start” technologies—in biotech, drugs/medical devices, information technology, and material sciences—represent a leap in innovation and vision.

     

    It takes a creative and experienced entrepreneur to imagine the product platforms, build out the management team, sell the concept to investors, and bring these technologies to market.

     

    What will we be showcasing?  Here’s a sample:

    • University of Washington (heart monitor, tissue engineering)
    • Washington State University (Piezoelectric microengines)
    • Pacific Northwest Research Institute (genotyping for disease prediction, diabetes treatment)
    • Pacific Northwest National Laboratory/Battelle (transgenic plants, magnetic resonance spectroscopy)
    • University of British Columbia (scodaforesis, wideband antennas)
    • Simon Fraser University (microfluidic device, photochromic polymers)
    • University of Victoria (network security)
    • Oregon Health & Science University (drug therapies, video sensor software)
    • University of Idaho (neural networks, immune stimulants)

     

    How long would it take—and how much would it cost?—for you to go to all these research institutions to see these same technologies? On March 15, we make it easy for you.

     

    Go to www.nwen.org/program/showcase_reg.htm to register
    Entrepreneurs Only. Bellevue Hyatt Regency, 3 pm to 8:30 pm 
    NWEN members $65; nonmembers $95

    Day of event registration:  NWEN members $95; nonmembers $125

     


    Connie Bourassa-Shaw

    Executive Director

    PO Box 40128
    Bellevue, WA  98015

    425 564-5700

     

    We’re grateful to our sponsors for their support of this event.

     

     

     


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    More $$ in northwest for energy entrepreneurs

    The Northwest Energy Effeciency Alliance comes up with $100M more for energy effeciency projects.

    Northwest Power Industry Commits $100 Million for Efficiency
    The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance announced last week that it will receive $20 million each year over the next five years to support its efforts to increase energy efficiency in the region. The funds will come from the Bonneville Power Administration, electric utilities, and public benefit funds—state funds generated through a fee on electricity to support public benefits such as renewable energy and energy efficiency. The $100 million investment will support market-based energy efficiency programs throughout Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington.

    Since the Alliance began in late 1996, energy efficiency efforts in the Northwest have saved the region an estimated 130 megawatts of electricity through 2003. The Alliance programs encourage appliance manufacturers and retailers to make and sell more efficient products, encourage commercial building designers to adopt practices that yield high-performance buildings, and promote new and innovative energy-saving technologies to industries in the Northwest. By 2010, the Alliance and related efforts are expected to save enough electricity to offset the need for two new power plants in the region, reducing carbon dioxide emissions by about 2 million tons. See the Alliance press release.

    They have been known to fund early stage start ups as well. If you have a business plan around energy effeciency, send it over!

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