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Nine student ventures from across the country will take part in the Fourth Annual Spirit of Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development (S.E.E.D.) Collegiate Venture Forum at the Andalucia Hotel March 2-3. The opening luncheon, Friday, March 2, at 11:30 a.m., features keynote speaker Dr. Yulun Wang, founder and CEO of InTouch Health. Tickets are $50, and reservations are required.

Dave Newton, professor of entrepreneurial finance at °µÍø±¬ÁÏapp, is founder and president of TechKnowledge Point, which launched the S.E.E.D competition to put top collegiate entrepreneurship business plans in front of a world-class panel of evaluators, early stage investors and product development specialists. Newton also started the entrepreneurship program at °µÍø±¬ÁÏapp.

This year’s nine semifinal ventures are: Advanced Wireless Solutions LLC from Loyola Marymount University; AIDN Corporation from Johns Hopkins University with Yale and the University of Maryland; Ambient Corporation from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; BEM Synergy Inc. from Washington State University; DineSense Inc. from University of San Francisco; GeoNexxus Corporation from Carnegie-Mellon University; Lyons Air LLC from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; MAP*D Net Inc. from John Carroll University; and Phoenix Pharmaceuticals Inc. from the University of Georgia.

Following the opening lunch, venture teams will make their first-round presentations at 1:30 p.m. Judges will decide which final four teams will compete Saturday, March 3, at 8:30 a.m.
Space will also be limited for the popular S.E.E.D. Networking Banquet, Friday, March 2, at 6 p.m. The keynote speaker is Dr. John Couch, Apple vice president of global education marketing for iTunes U. Tickets are $95 and reservations are required.

The forum will close with a luncheon Saturday, March 3 at noon, next to the pool on the roof of the Andalucia. The keynote speaker is Ali Velshi, senior business anchor for CNN. Tickets are $50 and reservations are required.

One of the best and most experienced panels of screeners and judges in the country will participate in the forum. Judges are: Dan Corry, principal of Agility Capital; Susan Block, principal of Block, Bowman & Associates, Barry Fay, president of Aquaflo; Mark Palmer, president of InRoads Technology; Dave Odell, CEO of MedBridge Development; Ron Meritt, CEO of Meritt International; Dave Goldmuntz, Angel Investor - Santa Barbara; Dick Hale, principal of Hale-Estrada Associates; andStender Sweeney, managing director of Pasadena Angels.
This year, collegiate venture teams will utilize iTunes U as an additional medium through which to disseminate audio-video content-information about their business plans to S.E.E.D. reviewers and potential investors. These unique podcasts will be uploaded to °µÍø±¬ÁÏapp’s iTunes U site in the weeks prior to the forum and will follow a S.E.E.D.-standardized 8-module format covering the eight key functional areas of the venture launch and ramp-up.

For more information, please contact Newton at (805) 455-7813 or by e-mail at info@techknowledgepoint.com.