The Prospekt Entrepreneurial Fellows Programme provides recently finished UG4, MSc, MBA and Ph.D. students from the University of Edinburgh's School of Informatics with three months salary to pursue further research into the technical feasibility of a high-growth, technology-related start-up idea. The scheme is funded by Prospekt – a four year, SEEL funded programme to provide commercialisation infrastructure and best practice for and within the School of Informatics. Prospekt Entrepreneurial Fellows (PEFs) will be based on campus in Appleton Tower at the University of Edinburgh.
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Link Associate Michael Clouser, will overview two innovative incubation and seed stage capital financing models that interacted with students at Cornell and Stanford Universities. One is a non-profit (NGO) model located in a remote area in upstate New York and the other is a for-profit venture capital fund centred in Silicon Valley. The effectiveness of the methods and models will be compared and analyzed in accordance to the missions of the organizations. The speaker was the CEO of Student Agencies from 1996-1999, and an Associate with Dot Edu Ventures from 2000-2004. The talk will be rich with first-hand experiences and analysis, and will be followed by a lively discussion of questions and answers.
The event will take place on 28 May 2008 , 10.00 - 16.30h at Newcastle University Business School.

"Steven Moffat is a dynamic Edinburgh-based Entrepreneur. He's bootstrapped over fourteen companies in very diverse market sectors from magazines and model agencies to online pet stores and reconditioned classic vespas that were sold all over the world. Utilizing organic structures and sales lead methodology his current ecommerce group has gone from a standing start to sales of £200,000 a month in just over 12 months." Stephen Moffat is a local serial internet entrepreneur. Come and hear about what motivates him, how he overcame obstacles and built a successful business. For further details visit http://huan.co.uk. He has spoken at the university before, one delegate’s response to his talk being “Absolutely real, straight, honest, informative, brilliant and best of all, hilarious”.
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The event is a cross-organizational one between the Edinburgh-Stanford Link, the Edinburgh Entrepreneurship Club, the eLearning Alliance, the Management School and the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. It is free to attend and all in the wider community are invited to come along. The first part (interactive session) will run between 18:00 and 19:30 and will be followed by an informal networking session in the foyer of the Management School from 19:30-21:00.
The event will be held in lecture theatre 1, Management School, University of Edinburgh, 7 Bristo Square, EH8 9AL. More details .

The speaker is an attorney at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and an angel investor in medical devices. Casey's practice focuses on the organization, funding, and corporate representation of companies in the information technology, life sciences, and telecommunications industries.
Casey is a nationally recognized leader in the representation of start-up and growth technology companies. He assists his clients in meeting their financing needs through introductions to an extensive network of angel investors, financiers, venture capitalists, corporate partners, and investment bankers. He has experience representing dozens of companies that have made successful initial public offerings and secondary offerings.
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Trevor Loy is founder and Managing Partner of Flywheel ventures. Flywheel‘s mission is to accelerate the creation of value in seed-stage and early-stage technology ventures located from the Rockies to the Pacific. The firm pursues this mission through a “hands-on” investing strategy in which the active engagement of Flywheel‘s team, in collaboration with entrepreneurial managers, can itself play a key role in growing the economic value of portfolio companies.
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Bill Joos of Garage Technology Ventures and GotoMarketingdelivers one of the workshops of the cross-disciplinary, transatlantic series of seminars co-sponsored by The Edinburgh Entrepreneurship Club and the Edinburgh-Stanford Link of the School of Informatics. More than any other Silicon Valley lesson, what Scotland really needs Bill brings to it in this session. "Its not what you say but how and when you say it".
The session will be held between 10:00 and 18:00 in Glasgow. For more details please contact Danny Helson, or call 0131 650 4427.

David founded Speck Design in 1996, and was involved as a designer and manager on multiple projects ranging from notebook computers for Apple computer to medical projects for Medtronic. David brings an integrated Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Design background to these projects. David helped spin-off of a couple of companies including. SimpleDevices which created ground breaking connected devices for home and car entertainment. SimpleDevices was acquired by Universal Electronics in Oct. of 2004. Reason Products - Which had patented technology in cable management and telephone headsets and was an OEM supplier for Motorola. This evening's talk will provide us with deeper insight into the power of blogging and wikimaking, the disruption these activities are creating, and emerging markets and opportunities in this space. Hear from one of the most fascinating pioneers and seriel entrepreneurs in the internet space.
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Vish joined Clearstone in March 2002 with over 30 years of leadership and management experience in the high tech industry including software, Internet, networking and telecommunications. He is a founder and served as a board member of Telera, a cutting edge voice web infrastructure company funded by Accel and Sequoia, which was sold to Alcatel for $140 million in 2002. Vish was also cofounder of Excelan (1983), which was funded with $7.3 million in venture capital, went public in 1987, sold for $225 million in 1989 and went on to contribute $1 billion to Novell’s revenue in subsequent years.
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Dave McClure has been geeking out in Silicon Valley for over fifteen years as a software developer, entrepreneur, startup advisor, angel investor, and internet marketing nerd. He is currently an advisor or investor for Mint Software, Spock Networks, Mashery, Simply Hired, HealthUnity, and Canopy Financial. Dave is also a board member for microfinance accelerator Unitus, and advisor to non-profit Kiva.org, & leads user groups & conferences on technology, entrepreneurship, venture capital, & microfinance.
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The event organised by the Link will be held at the Alba Innovation Centre in Livingston, Scotland. Mike Masnick of Techdirt will host a "Techdirt Greenhouse" in as a platform for discussion technology, trends, and solutions. Students will interact with early stage companies from the Alba Centre and beyond during this event. Early stage companies will be provided with the opportunity to engage with talented students from the University of Edinburgh's School of Informatics and Design and Digital Media Programme.
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This evening you will be provided with an overview of the emerging "Cleantech" and substainable energy sector. From there the talk will move into strategies used by venture capitalists who are making investments into this exciting, environmentally sensitive and socially councious area in the hopes of making large profits down the line. Learn from an experienced venture capitalist from Silicon Valley who has worked in the industry for over ten years.
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Serial entrepreneur William Urschel will discuss innovation in internet advertising, the markets for internet advertising, as well as his recent startup company that was sold to Microsoft, AdCEN. Join us to learn more about this large and growing market and the innovation happening within it. The talk will be followed by a drinks reception.
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This evening's talk will provide us with deeper insight into the power of blogging and wikimaking, the disruption these activities are creating, and emerging markets and opportunities in this space. Hear from one of the most fascinating pioneers and seriel entrepreneurs in the internet space.
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Bart Balocki is going to talk about informal and formal practices of Silicon Valley Venture Capitalists and how venture capital firms actually work, how partners interact and make decisions. Invaluable for any entrepreneur wishing to raise capital from venture capitalists either in Silicon Valley or elsewhere, and for any entrepreneurs planning to start their own venture capital or angel investment firms here in Scotland.
The session will be held in lecture theatre 1, Management School, University of Edinburgh, 7 Bristo Square, EH8 9AL.

Link Associate Mike Clouser attends "the Roundtable on Entrepreneurshp Education" which focused on the entrepreneurial university, entrepreneurship education, and the relationship between the two and economic development in a region. The event that was sponsored by Stanford Technology Ventures Programme (STVP) and Accel Partners -an international venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley- also discussed the dynamics of the Catalonia case, especially the Technical University of Catalonia, an emerging entrepreneurial university itself. In addition, best practices in entrepreneurship education were shared by entrepreneurship teachers from all over World. One of the important findings of this year's group is the importance of teaching creativity and confidence to technology students in entrepreneurship curriculums, and best methods in this regard were discussed. Also in attendance from Scotland were James Barlow, the CEO of SIE and Leslie Heatherington from Stathclyde University.

Link Associate Mike Clouser to attend Scott Shane's Entrepreneurship Ph.D. Researchers Seminar in Cleveland, Ohio. The intensive one week long seminar event will review and discuss approximately 40 research papers amongst 20 Ph.D. researchers. Scott Shane's seminar was based on the idea that entrepreneurship research should strengthen and deepen entrepreneurship teaching at Higher Education Institutions. Dr. Shane is a leading teacher and researcher in entrepreneurship. Currently he is a Professor of Economics at the Case Western Reserve University's Weatherhead School of Management.

Link Associate, Mike Clouser, presented a paper on the dynamics of university-government-industry relations in the burgeoning life sciences space at the Babson Entrepreneurship Research Conference in Madrid, Spain. Mr. Clouser, a Research Associate of the Edinburgh-Stanford Link and a Ph.D. Candidate focusing on entrepreneurship and Innovation in the School of Management and Economics at the University of Edinburgh. "Triple Helix Power Play" was the topic of Michael's research presentation. It surrounded the recent phenonomen of the move by the Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), the largest, most successful and most entrepreneurial research institute on the bio technology side. Further research and analysis will specifically compare the Florida and Scotland regions as emerging centres of life sciences innovation.

The Edinburgh Stanford Link is organising the Design and Digital Media Industry Day to encourage and strengthen the relationship between businesses and organisations in the creative industries, and the University's Sound Design and Digital Media staff, researchers and students. Featuring representatives from different companies in Scotland, the day will include talks given by such companies as SFX, Ecom and Cereproc. The Link Industry Day will be held in Alison House, School of Arts Culture and Environment, in the University of Edinburgh. Join the Link’s commercial team and researchers at this free networking event for nibbles, wine and beer.
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The Entrepreneur-in-Residence provides recently finished or nearly finishing UG4, MSc, MBA and Ph.D. students from the University of Edinburgh with three months salary to pursue further research into the technical feasibility of a high- growth, technology-related start-up idea. The EIR programme is funded by the Edinburgh-Stanford Link (ESL), a collaboration between Edinburgh and Stanford universities, and the European Union through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). ESL is situated within the School of Informatics, and EIRs will be based on campus in Buccleuch Place or Appleton Tower at the University of Edinburgh. More details.

Mike Ramsay, founder of Tivo and a graduate of the University of Edinburgh, will explain to us how startups can take on the “big boys” and win. A session of strategy and conquering that will surely leave you thirsty.
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Hosted by Trevor Loy, Flywheel Ventures. Have you ever wanted to form your own venture capital fund? Or wondered how they start and how they work? Come and listen to Trevor Loy tell us how he started his, explain to us the unique strategy of Flywheel Ventures, and provide useful tips for venture capital fund start-ups and wannabes.
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Hosted by Randy Haykin, Outlook Ventures.During this discussion we we learn about the state of venture capital financing in Silicon Valley. What is the climate? What are VC’s looking for now? What is hot? What are valuations like? What should entrepreneurs know about Silicon Valley venture capital? Come to get the answers to these, and other questions, including those of your own.
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The Edinburgh-Stanford Link and the School of Informatics will be hosting the first ever BarCamp Scotland on March 3rd, 2007*. *BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from attendees.

Hosted by Jim Buckmaster, Craigslist. The internet is an emerging opportunity landscape. During this session you will gain further insight into the culture of the internet and online communities from the CEO of one of the internet’s most successful, and controversial, start-up companies. This session will be moderated by Michael Clouser of the Edinburgh-Stanford Link, and will take the form of a question and answer session throughout the hour.
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Hosted by David Law, co-founder of Speck Product Design.
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Hosted by David Law, co-founder of Speck Product Design. David is one of four founders at California-based Speck Product Design, where he is involved as a designer and manager on several projects ranging from notebook computers for Apple to toys for OddzOn Products. David brings an integrated Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Design background to these.
Born and raised in Scotland, he pursued a degree in Naval Architecture & Ocean Engineering at the University of London. He returned to Glasgow University to complete an honours degree in Product Design Engineering. In early 1993, he moved to the US and joined IDEO Product Development, based in Palo Alto. David played a lead role on projects ranging from portable computers to furniture and office equipment. He has several utility patents including one of the first major commercial uses of Memory Metal (shapememory alloy).
David also teaches "Experiences in Visual Thinking" at Stanford University, a required creativity course for engineering students, and regularly helps run volunteer projects to introduce school kids to engineering and product design.

The Entrepreneurship-in-Residence Ph.D.Programme (EIR-Ph.D.) provides recently finished or nearly finishing Ph.D. candidates from the University of Edinburgh's School of Informatics with three months of salary while they pursue further research and development of their high-growth, technology-related start- up ideas. The EIR-Ph.D . programme is administrated by the Edinburgh-Stanford Link (ESL). Funding for the programme is provided by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), which is administered by the European Union (EU).
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The Link Associate Mike Clouser, also a Ph.D. Candiate in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Edinburgh, is conducting a workshop entitled "Starting a Business" for undergraduate students at the University of Edinburgh. In conjuction with SIE and the Careers Office at the University of Edinburgh, this effort is planned to be the first in a series of activities designed to inspire and teach entrepreneurship at the undergraduate level and help change the culture of the University of Edinburgh to a more entrepreneurial one per the mission of the Edinburgh-Stanford Link. Thus far 38 students have registered for this workshop, which will teach the basics of starting the business and then involve the students in a creativity exercise designed to enable and empower them to discover real business opportunities that might serve the needs of the student population of the wider Edinburgh community.
Approximately 10% of Edinburgh's population of roughly 500,000 have student status, thus representing a sizable target market for student startups in the community.