[UCI-Calit2] Entrepreneurs Forum at UCI - March 13

[Anna Lynn Spitzer]

OCTANe at UCI <http://octane.uci.edu> 

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How Venture Capital Companies Evaluate 
New Companies


	Friday, March 13, 2009 
	11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. 
	Calit2 Room 3008 (Calit2 map
<http://octane.uci.edu/pdfs/map_calit2.pdf> ) 

The Entrepreneurs Forum at UC Irvine provides an intimate and
informative setting for faculty, researchers, students and staff who are
interested in the entrepreneurial process. 

The audience will have the opportunity to actively participate in a
spirited Q&A session with the speaker.

Agenda
11:30 - Pizza and Registration
12:00 - Interview
12:50 - Q&As 

Register Now! <http://octane.uci.edu/registration.asp?id=20> 

RSVP by 3/12/09! 
FREE to UC faculty, researchers, students and staff. 

General Public: $10 (credit card or check only)
If you have questions please call: 

	Tanya Zabalegui 
	tanyaz at uci.edu <mailto:tanyaz at uci.edu> 
	(949) 824-3425 
	
	Jayne Ruane 
	Jayne.Ruane at unx.uci.edu <mailto:Jayne.Ruane at unx.uci.edu> 
	(949) 824-5267

Register Now! <http://octane.uci.edu/registration.asp?id=20> 

About the Program
Please join us for an interview with Shahin Farshchi, Senior Associate
of Lux Capital. Dr. Farshchi will give innovators a basic understanding
of how venture capital works, and a general sense of how VCs evaluate
fledgling companies that leverage innovations in the semiconductor and
alternative energy space.

About the Speaker
 Shahin
Frashchi<http://octane.uci.edu/emails/images/speaker_farshchi.jpg>
Shahin is a senior associate with Lux Capital, focusing on investments
in semiconductor, wireless, and alternative energy technologies. Before
joining Lux, Shahin held technical positions at General Motors and
several Silicon Valley technology startups. He received his B.S. degree
in Electrical Engineering Computer Science with College of Engineering
Honors from the University of California at Berkeley, and M.S. and Ph.D
. degrees in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Management from the
University of California at Los Angeles. Shahin has also served as a
postdoctoral scholar at the UCLA department of Electrical Engineering.
His graduate research on wireless biosignal telemetry has been published
in 5 IEEE conference proceedings and 2 IEEE journals.

Who should attend? 

*                 Faculty inventors 

*                 Entrepreneurs 

*                 Technology transfer executives 

*                 Investors 

*                 MBA Students 

*                 Staff

 

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