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Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 08:26:31 EST
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Dear East Coast Friends,
I am organizing another entrepreneurial event at Swiss House, this time via
videonconference with EPFL in Lausanne. You have all the details on the
invitation BELOW. We have limted seating capacity for this event, but I would
be happy if some of you with an interest to discuss New
Economy/Entrepreneurship issues join the discussion. Please kindly contact me
if you are interested to participate. Thanks, Pascal
Pascal Marmier
SEND
Swiss Entrepreneurs Network Development
1477 Beacon St., Apt. 28
Brookline, MA 02446
Cell: (617) 515 3097
Email: pascal_at_sendyourstartup.com
Web:SendYourStartup.com
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INVITATION FIRST TUESDAY LAUSANNE - Live from EPFL with the Swiss House in
Boston
Tuesday 27 March from 17h00 to 19h00
EPFL - salle Polyvalente
Centre EST, 1st floor (behind the restaurant Copernic),
(accessible by car: exit highway Lausanne Sud - EPFL or by underground "Tsol")
plan d'accès: http://www.rezonance.ch/index.php?tab=plan.php
"Regards croisés Suisse-USA: où en est la nouvelle économie ?"
16h30-17h00 Welcome
17h00-19h00 Conference & video conference live with the Swiss House in Boston
19h00-21h00 Cocktail & networking
Live streaming video on http://www.rezonance.ch by Orbital & Cie
Attendence is free but registration is required. Please click on the link
here below to register:
http://www.rezonance.ch/index.php?tab=inscription.php&date=2001-03-27&loc=ls
or by sending an e-mail to mailto:inscription_at_rezonance.ch
with mentionning the date: 27.03.01, your name, e-mail address and company
name.
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Programme
INTRODUCTION by Geneviève Morand, First Tuesday
and Pascal Marmier, Swiss House Boston mailto:pascal_at_sendyourstartup.com
OVERVIEW: outlook of the economic situation with a focus on the startups
- Swiss House: Joost Bonsen "The State of Entrepreneurship in rough times"
Joost Bonsen is a Teaching Assistant at MIT and is currently working on
various entrepreneurship and company founder-related projects.
Personal Page: http://web.mit.edu/jpbonsen/Public/WWW/jpbonsen-home.html
TESTIMONIES
EPFL:
- David McNally, Ph.D., Managing Director Genimedia SA PSE - EPFL
http://www.genimedia.com
Genimedia is a PSE-based startup company, that was incorporated a few months
ago. They work on perceptual quality of service applications for video and
multimedia over the internet and over mobile networks.
Stage: smart money.
- Jean Gayral, founder BrightRivers and Jacques Boschung, 33 ans, CEO
BrightRivers (ex Country Manager at IBM)
A new consulting methodology for continuous improvement of industrial
productivity mailto:JGayral_at_compuserve.com
Stage: 1st round 2 Mio $, 15 employees
From april 1st at PSE/EPFL and in St-Petersbourg and Chambery
- Etienne Mirlesse, Founder and CEO Obvious Technologies
http://www.itsobvious.com, mailto:
based in San Francisco,
R&D in Paris
Obvious' mission is to become the de-facto standard for the creation,
publication, indexation and distribution of interactive digital video of
networks and the Internet.
Stage: after 2nd round, + 50 people
Swiss House:
- Sean Fabre (VP Business Development) and Francesco de Daniele (CTO) are the
founders of Lobby 7, a wireless consulting company that raised a multimillion
round of financing last year and currently employs 40 people.
They will talk of their experience as young (23 year old) and first-time
entrepreneurs. http://www.lobby7.com
DISCUSSION:
Swiss House: Featured Guests:
- Chad Jackson is a Principal with a VC firm, Clarity Capital, specialized in
wireless technologies. http://www.claritycap.com
- Karl Ruping is the director of InkTank, an incubator linked to MIT
http://www.inctankinc.com. He was recently featured in a TSR show.
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NEXT EVENTS
First Tuesday Genève 3 avril "Mobile portal"
First Tuesday Lausanne 24 avril "From your Idea to Your Business" organized
by the the start team, HEC Lausanne
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First Tuesday Lausanne co-organized in collaboration with:
EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, http://www.epfl.ch
MoT - Center for management of Technology http://cmtwww.epfl.ch
Create http://www.entrepreneurship.ch
PSE - Parc Scientifique d'Ecublens http://psewww.epfl.ch
IMD - Internationl Institute for Management Development http://www.imd.ch
Merci à nos partenaires pour leur indispensable soutien:
UBS http://www.ubs.com
GENEVOISE http://www.genevoise.ch
ERNST & YOUNG http://www.ey.com
SERONO INTERNATIONAL SA http://www.serono.com
AIR FRANCE http://www.airfrance.ch
CVCI http://www.cvci.ch
AGEFI http://www.agefi.com
L'Hebdo http://www.hebdo.ch
CLUB SUISSE DE LA PRESSE http://www.csp.ge.ch
APTE Association http://www.apte.ch
e-citron http://www.e-citron.ch
ORBITAL&CIE http://www.orbital.ch
CMIC FORMATION http://www.cmic.ch
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Please feel free to forward this message to anyone you think may be
interested in it or would like to attend.
We look forward to welcoming you on March 27th @ EPFL.
Best Regards,
Jean-Micol, Co-director MoT postgraduate program, mailto:jean.micol_at_epfl.ch
Center for Management of Technology http://www.epfl.ch/mot
Laurent Piguet, Coaching Team, PSE Parc Scientifique,
mailto:laurent.piguet_at_epfl.ch
Pascal Marmier, SEND Swiss Entrepreneurs Network Development,
mailto:pascal_at_sendyourstartup.com
et
Geneviève Morand, First Tuesday Genève & Lausanne, mailto:gmorand_at_rezonance.ch
Mobile +41 79 204 08 84
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