Date: Thursday, July 2^nd

Time: 6pm

Place: S-101 (Serrano 99)

Click HERE to register.

64 PLACES AVAILABLE.

IE Net Impact Club & Entrepreneurship Club are excited to present  

WORKSHOP

"What does it take to be a Social Entrepreneur?"

Tuesday 23 June from 18:00-19:30 in D101

Register HERE. Limited capacity (30 places).

Networking cocktail at Lagoa Bar, 19.30

Social Entrepreneurship - a much used phrase and buzz word

What does it mean to you? What does it take to be a social entrepreneur?

How can you learn to be one?

Join us in a discussion which outcomes will be presented to a group of active Social Entrepreneurships practitioners and professors at the SEEC Forum in July (https://www.seecglobal.org/Home_Page.html)

As aspiring Social Entrepreneurs, we ask you to join this interactive workshop and contribute your perspectives. This will also be a great platform to network with fellow students and entrepreneurs.

As a starting point for discussion, please fill in this questionnaire (whether you intend to attend or not).

  IE Net Impact Club aims to increase awareness, inspire and equip the IE community to be socially responsible in business. It annually promotes the Social Responsibility Forum, among other events. netimpact@ie.edu

The IE Entrepreneurship Club and Net Impact Chapter present to you SocialBid "A Case for Social Entrepreneurship". SocialBid helps non-profit organizations to raise funds through an online platform that allows the customers to bid for products initially donated to companies or individuals. It is a very original business model. Visit their website at

Speakers:         Eduardo Giménez: Founder and President, Partner at Bain & Co.

                        Rodrigo Aguirre de Cárcer: Founder and CEO  

When:              Monday, June 1, 2009

Where:             Room D-101

Time:                6 pm

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Tony Seba y los 9 fundamentos de la estrategia en mercados tecnológicos

Tony Seba es emprendedor, conferenciante, profesor y consultor estratégico para algunas compañías de Sillicon Valley. El pasado 2 de febrero ofreció una conferencia acerca de las 9 reglas que según su dilatada trayectoria hacen a una compañía o a un productor ganador en un mercado tan rápido, cambiante y competitivo como el tecnológico.

Los ejes fundamentales en los que se basa su estudio giran principalmente en torno al cliente, como sujeto de necesidades, emociones y de miedos al que el mercado debe ofrecer productos completos pero simples, de fácil adopción, altamente fiables, y con valor. Efectivamente, "hay que sentir el dolor" antes de desarrollar un producto: hay que escuchar a los clientes, centrarse en sus problemas y definir ese nuevo nicho en el mercado. Ese producto ha de ser sencillo de usar y ha de añadir valor a la experiencia global del cliente (y no consistir simplemente en una serie de características); así mismo, un producto tecnológico ha de infundir confianza en el cliente, hacerles sentir seguros en su decisión de comprar ese específico producto. Para facilitar el posicionamiento de un producto es imprescindible contar una buena historia, con la que pueda identificarse emocionalmente el cliente; efectivamente, la adopción no es más que un proceso social, por lo tanto humano, y por ello resulta también crucial encontrar "valedores", líderes de opinión que animen a los demás a adoptar el producto concreto. Por último, seguir siendo ganador en este mercado requiere constantemente mirar al competidor (descubrir cómo acabar con él), seguir escuchando al cliente, estar abierto a ideas de fuera, conocer la cadena de valor, innovar en el modelo de negocio, etc.; es decir, cambiar o morir.

Dear IE Community: 

Due to the high interest in Entrepreneurship & Family Business events, the IE Entrepreneurship Club Committee is motivated to continue bringing the best speakers possible. 

Join us for our next Guest Speaker Series

"FROM AUTOMOTIVE TO FURNITURE DESIGN" - Valentina Fontana

Valentina Fontana comes from a very respected entrepreneurial family in Italy. She will be sharing her family business story (FONTANA GROUP) and her own startup story (ALTREFORME) with us. We encourage you to look at the website of each company!

Date: Monday, February 16, 2009 (WEEK AFTER IMBA FINAL EXAMS)

Time: 7:00 pm

Room: S-101

64 PLACES AVAILABLE, assigned in order of registration.

To sign up for the event click on the following LINK

Best Regards, 

The Entrepreneurship Club Committee

IE Marketing Club and IE Entrepreneurs Club are honored to welcome Top speaker-lecturer Tony Seba .

Tony Seba is an educator, entrepreneur, author, speaker, business architect, and consultant.

He is a lecturer at Stanford University where he teaches high tech strategy and entrepreneurship. He has created and taught "Strategic Marketing of High Technology Products and Innovations", "Business and Revenue Models Innovation", and "Finance for Marketing, Engineers, and Entrepreneurs". He teaches at top business schools around the world such as The Auckland University  (New Zealand) Business School, has been guest lecturer at Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management, University of Southern California, and in-company at some of the world's top high tech companies such as Google, Inc.

Seba holds an MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business and a BS in Computer Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

[http://www.tonyseba.com/bio.html]

Our guest speaker will be introduced by Enrique Dans, IE professor in Information Systems

Dear ALL,

We would like to remind you that the IE Entrepreneurship Club is hosting its kick-off meeting at "Los Girasoles" at 8pm on Thursday, January 22, 2009. The main purpose of this informal gathering is to meet everyone but also talk about business ideas and ventures. We will also announce some of the already lined-up events for the near future. 

SEE INVITATION!

START-UP BY IE STUDENTS OF 2007

We are very pleased to announce Adrian Hilti in our guest speaker series. He co-founded Busuu Online S.L. together with Bernhard Niesner in the beginning of this year. Both graduated from IE in December 2007 after completion of the international MBA program. The initial idea for busuu.com was developed in the context of the Venture Lab.

He will share his insights of perusing a business idea during the MBA and also what it takes to make it reality once the MBA is over.

Adrian Hilti (34), from Liechtenstein, is responsible for IT & Operations within busuu.com. He worked for the strategy consulting firm Arthur D. Little before founding busuu.com. Additionally, he gained experience in the Swiss High-Tech company Shockfish.

Bernhard Niesner (29), born in Vienna, Austria, is responsible for Marketing & Sales at busuu.com. Before founding the company he worked for the international strategy consulting firm Roland Berger Strategy Consultants.

About Busuu

busuu.com is a free online community for learning languages. Users have access to audio-visual learning material covering several topics. Additionally, language skills can be directly improved together with native speakers from around the world. Users connect via an integrated video-chat with other users of the community while at home. Each user is not only "student" of a foreign language but also a "teacher" of his own mother tongue. The start-up was founded in Madrid at the beginning of 2008. The name of the site comes from the Busuu language of Cameroon, which according to an ethnological study from the 80ies is only spoken by 8 people.

Please join us for a stimulating discussion next Tuesday, November 18th from 19:00 to 20:30 in room S-201. THERE ARE 64 PLACES AVAILABLE.

To sign up, please click HERE, include your NAME and EMAIL, then mark the event and submit it.

For more information, feel free to contact us at entrepreneurshipclub@ie.edu

FRANCHISING - THE OTHER PATH TO INDEPENDENCE

Some consider it the safe way to become entrepreneur, some make a lot of money with this formula and some companies need it to grow.

We'll be very pleased to introduced Mariano Muñoz de Dios Rodríguez in our guest speaker series.

From Tenerife, Graduated in Economy and Master in Advertising and Marketing professionally linked to the marketing and advertisement sector till 1997, Sub Director General of EURO RSCG, Account Manager at Tapsa FCB and Tandem DDB, Mariano Muñoz is a McDonald's franchisee, he has currently the intention to open 2 more restaurants.

Please join us for a stimulating discussion next Wednesday, November 5th from 18:00 to 19:30.

New venue: CLASSROOM S-105 (Serrano 105)

To sign up, please do it HERE  . Include your NAME and EMAIL, then mark the event and submit it.

It is important to sign up as indicated!!!

For more information, feel free to contact us at entrepreneurshipclub@ie.edu

Looking forward to see you there,

CLUSTERSTAR: A MANAGEMENT CONSULTING FIRM RUN BY STUDENTS

ClusterStar is a young dynamic consulting firm run solely by students. ClusterStar provides high-quality services at low cost. Its teams are created through a worldwide student network and thrive on developing innovative ideas. The ultimate goal is customer satisfaction. An international pool of consultants can meet diverse needs requiring different specialization.

For more information about the company, please visit: www.clusterstar.com

We will host Daniel Molina co-founder of this incredibly fast growing company. He is currently studying law and economics at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. As Senior Manager, he is responsible for developing the network in Spain and Latinamerica and promoting the new company. He will talk to us about their unique consulting and entrepreneurial approach.

Please join us for a stimulating discussion Monday, June 23 from 18:00 to 19:30 in room S-101.

For more information, feel free to contact us at entrepreneurshipclub@ie.edu

Looking forward to see you there,

IE Entrepreneurship Club & IE Consulting Club

Freeman saw early that there were high potential target groups for e-commerce which have not been served yet.

Freeman explained that teenagers at that time spend around 153bn in shopping malls, were highly familiar with Internet and most of the time responsible for new technology purchases within their families. Freeman argued: "Teenagers like Cybermoola because it allows them to shop independently." Cybermoola was therefore created which a particular focus on teenagers and minority groups who either do not have credit cards or do not want to use them for e-commerce due to credit card fraud etc.

Consumers were able to purchase Cybermoola from branded retail chains, similar to purchasing a pre-paid phone card, such as Foot Action stores in the Dallas, Texas area, and ShopRite grocery stores in the Northeast. A customer takes the Cybermoola unique serial number to the Cybermoola Web site and creates an account that subsequently will be accessed only by an e-mail ID and PIN. Cybermoola users could make "same as cash" purchases from any of the merchants in the Cybermoola network, which is considerable, but they didn't have any purchase protection (comparable to credit cards) when they do make a purchase.

Because Cybermoola knew where customers buy Cybermoola, where they spend it, and what they purchase, merchants in the network can benefit from detailed purchasing behavior to offer targeted cash-like incentives to customers. However, Cybermoola was not able to leverage on that in the way as it would be possible today in the post "Google Area", explained Freeman. His Business was created to work on a large scale only, due to the very little margins this business model was able to achieve.

Mr. Freeman was able to raise around US $ 650.000 seed financing from Business Angels whom he considers with hindsight were not the right investors for his Venture. He himself was hoping for investors with more experience in this business area. Mr. Freeman was supported by his wife Luisa Piñole and two other Co-Founders who all brought valuable skills to the Venture.

By the end of 2000 the Cybermoola had around 50.000 users and was exceeding all expectations. However, the Company was still burning cash and was therefore looking for additional investors. The bursting of the dot-com bubble in 2001 marked the beginning of a relatively mild yet rather lengthy early 2000s recession in the developed world, which made it impossible for Cybermoola to conduct a second round of financing and eventually forced the owners to liquidate the Company.

Overall Freeman has valued this time as an extraordinary learning experience and encouraged all of the attending students to become entrepreneurs themselves but warned them that they might have to become serial entrepreneurs as re-entry into big corporations goes against the nature of an independent entrepreneur.

MEN WHO Have Made a Name for themselves

We are proud to present the founders of Grupo BTP - one of the leading distributors of consumer products in Venezuela: Stephane Bardinet, Guillermo Trigo and Luigi Petrilli.

After an extensive and successful working experience in the corporate world, they decided to join forces and start their own business in 2005, creating a group of companies employing today over 200 employees with sales of 60 Million Euros a year.

3 Entrepreneurs with very different backgrounds:

Stéphane Bardinet graduated from the Ecole de Commerce de d'Administration in France and has 32 years of experience in the alcoholic beverages industry.

Guillermo Trigo, a computer engineer with a postgraduate degree in finance and 25 years of experience, has held several senior positions in Venezuela's leading firms.

Luigi Petrilli Errini, a navy officer, turned businessman, who spent many years with Johnson & Johnson and eventually went on to set up his own company.

Please join us for a stimulating discussion Tuesday, May 20 from 18:00 to 19:30 in room S-101.

A few data on Grupo BTP

BTP Transporte S.A. This transportation company owns its fleet of trucks and manages third party outsourced transport units to service companies of the group as well as external customers.

BTP Consumo S.A. After a couple of years the company has diversified its portfolio and is now also distributing in Venezuela non alcoholic consumer goods from important companies.

Today, the company has entered into a new venture in the non-alcoholic drinks business, to manufacture its own drink brands in Venezuela and distributed them in the territory and abroad.

The group's mission is to add value to all what we undertake through transformational thinking, working along with our people, customers and strategic partners to grow together and to be recognized as the reference company in consumer goods distribution and logistics services.

For more information, send us an email

We are glad to receive Javier Barberá, Central Musical's CEO, next Tuesday 29^th April at 18.00 hrs in S-101.

Central Musical produce and broadcast on the Internet live music bands. They work in exclusive collaboration with concert halls in Spain, Portugal and expand more and more internationally.

Javier Barberá will present the company business model.

The IEntrepreneurs' Club is delighted to invite you to the Family Business Debate on Thursday, April 24 in Room S-101 at 6.30 pm.

The discussion will open with an introduction by Professor CRISTINA CRUZ, who teaches the Family Venturing elective course at IE. Ms Cruz was born into a family business environment and works as a family business consultant.

The first topic of our discussion will be leadership. How to be an effective leader in a family business?

Several of our colleagues from different sections and programs will share their experience of working in family-run firms and talk about the associated challenges and opportunities. A large part of our discussion will be dedicated to Q&A to maximize input from everyone present.

For further information send an email to EntrepreneurshipClup@ie.edu

We are proud to present Wouter Lauwaars, in our next Guest Speaker Series. He will be discussing his favorite daily pastime ..., reading Business Plans.

He worked for Rabobank International (Dutch Triple A rated Investment Bank dedicated to Corporate Finance and Corporate Banking) first as Credit Analyst, then Associate and Relationship Manager.

He is currently working for Barclays Bank (Fifth largest bank in Spain, sixth largest in Europe in terms of market capitalization) as Senior Relationship Manager. He is responsible for origination of corporate, structured and capital market transactions, wide product portfolio incl. corporate, capital markets, private banking and equity linked.

This event will take place next Tuesday 15th April , from 18.00 to 19.30h in A-304 (María de Molina, 11).

See you there!

Invitation

The IEntrepreneurs' Club requests the pleasure of your company at its cocktail party on Monday, February 25 at the Lagoa Bar on Serrano, 85 from 6 to 8 pm.

We see this as an opportunity for club members to get to know each other in a less formal setting. In addition we anticipate this to be an extension of the dialogue initiated during the Team-building Session organized by the Venture Lab on the preceding Friday.

This event is open to all club members and non-members who want to be active in the Venture Lab. Average price per drink - €2.

We look forward to a pleasant and productive evening!

For more information, feel free to contact us at entrepreneurshipclub@ie.edu

If you want to learn more about Zaryn Denzel conference at the Entrepreneurship Club and to keep with the discussion CLICK HERE to go to the Technology blog.

The Club is opening its guest speaker series with Mr. Zaryn Dentzel, co-founder and CEO of Tuenti.

Tuenti is a young Spanish start-up that is positioning itself as a national alternative to Facebook. In contrast to Facebook, Tuenti maintains its network exclusivity through by-invitation-only subscriptions. Its current users form a predominantly young community of university students, but since companies often follow their consumers, corporate presence is expanding fast.

For more information on Tuenti, read this article.

Mr. Dentzel will be speaking to the IE Entrepreneurs Club on Monday, February 11 in room S-201 at 6:00 p.m.

Duration: 1 hour

Please, BE PUNCTUAL!!! We will start at 6:00 p.m. sharp. Late comers will not be allowed to enter.

For further information on the Entrepreneurs Club, send an email to EntrepreneurshipClub@ie.edu

This year the Entrepreneurship club has organized a Speakers Series in which students and alumni have had the opportunity to share points of views with very successful entrepreneurs like Martin Varsavsky.

Martin Varsavsky's conference attendance was impressive; so many students and alumni came that they had to sit on the floor to listen to Mr. Varsavsky discuss FON.

In the picture to the right, Varsavsky appears with the Entrepreneurship Club organizers of the event.

This year, some of our Alumni came to discuss their successful projects as well as their failures; learning from mistakes can also turn into a valuable experience.

In this picture, Miguel Ángel Perez-LLoria is sharing the lights and shades of Smart Wine, highlighting that not all projects are successful.

The Workcenter is an undeniable business success; Alfonso Senillosa was at IE with the Entrepreneurship Club.

Alfonso Senillosa giving his presentation, and later with the organizing team and Nacho de la Vega.

Some of the cases discussed were international, such as those presented by Bumeran.com and Pablo Larguía.

Pablo Larguía presenting Bumerang.com, one of the most important job search websites in Latin America.

To participate, please register at MediaComm.Club@ie.edu

Group photo of the Club coordinators with the guest speaker, from left to right. 1st row (standing up): Sylvain Pouilly IMBA07, Gisselly Díaz Sánchez IMBA07, José Cadenas Rabaixet MBA07, Martin Varsavsky, and Marcelo Caballero IMBA07. 2nd row: Frank Uffen IMBA07 and César López Benito MBAP07. Missing: Mariella Timtiman Zúñiga IMBA07.

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Martin Varsavsky. Monday, March 5th / 5 de marzo !!! 19:00 hr @ Aula Magna

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Please address your e-mails to EntrepreneurshipClub@ie.edu if you want to get in touch with this club.

THE ENTREPRENEURSHIP CLUB'S "SPEAKER SERIES" is delighted to welcome Mr. Pablo Larguía, as our next guest speaker at IE.
WHEN? Wednesday, November 15th @ 19:00 hr @ classroom A-304

IMPORTANT: SPACE IS LIMITED SO PLEASE REGISTER WITH ENTREPRENEURSHIP CLUB @ EntrepreneurshipClub@ie.edu

Pablo Larguía started up Bumeran.com, an on-line recruitment site #1 in Latin America and #4 in the world. Backed by US and UK VCs, Pablo and his partners expanded the company throughout Latin America between 1998 and 2000. In December 2000, the company was acquired by TerraLycos. Within a six-month period at Bumeran-Terra Miami, Pablo left the day-to-day activities in the company.

In 2002, Pablo started Enjoy Entertainment, a new Film and Theatre Production company. Enjoy Entertainment produced the #3 most seen Spanish-speaking movie in 2003, "Lugares Comunes", winner of multiple awards in San Sebastian Film Festival. After that, Enjoy produced "ART", the most successful theatre play in Spain in year 2003. That same year, Enjoy also acquired a 50% stake in Séptimo Arte, a retail store chain that rents & sells DVD´s, which is quickly expanding through Spain. In 2004, through a new company, Singular Multimedia, Pablo developed a new theatre space in Gran Vía here in Madrid. In 2005, Enjoy Entertainment acquired the "Teatro Lara", one of the most important theatres in Madrid.

Pablo firmly believes that entrepreneurship and new venture creation are essential drivers of economic growth and social mobility. Committed to seek for positive changes in the world, he is involved in The Junior Achievement Foundation, the world's largest economic education organization.

Please join us to learn more about Mr. Pablo Larguía ´s entrepreneurial adventure!

THE ENTREPRENEURSHIP CLUB'S "SPEAKER SERIES" is delighted to welcome MR. Scott Witters, as our next guest speaker at IE.

WHEN? THURSDAY, October 19th @ 18:00 hr @ classroom B-203

Scott Witters, a 2003 MBA graduate of the Instituto de Empresa, is one of the founding partners of Zugiis, www.zugiis.com. In the same week of graduation, they opened their first Juice Cafe/Smoothie Bar here in Madrid with the aim of franchising. Now with four locations including one franchise, Zugiis is at the crossroads of its uncertain future. His experience as a foreign entrepreneur include many insights, lessons and advice for those seeking enter the cafe/bar/restaurant sector or wish to build any business in Spain. Scott is a New Zealander that has also lived and worked in London, Hong Kong, Singapore and New York.
IMPORTANT: SPACE IS LIMITED SO PLEASE REGISTER WITH ENTREPRENEURSHIP CLUB, by sending an email to EntrepreneurshipClub@ie.edu

Please join us to learn more about Mr. Scott Witters's entrepreneurial adventure!

On Wednesday, March 22 Richard Vaughan, founder and owner of Vaughan Systems and Vaughan Radio, visited IE invited by The IE Entrepreneurs Club, and opened the first event organised by the Club under the title"Speakers´ Series".

Vaughan Systems is the largest in-company language-training firm in Spain. Currently, it has 119 teachers that provide 12,000 hours per month of language training to people interested in learning English. Vaughan Systems has a presence in some of the most important cities of Spain including its famous English-speaking village.

Richard gave the students some insights on how to become a successful entrepreneur. He shared that since his company began in 1977, they have sustained a rock-hard faith in the one single tenet that has made the company a leader: "The success of a language-training program depends solely on the human and technical caliber of the trainer. All the rest is pure adornment."

Mr. Vaughan's key lessons are:
- Be humble yet energetic.
- Feel passionate and compromised
- Listen to the people that are around you, be open to ideas
- Respect and appreciate your people
- Master communication skills, they are crucial in leadership
- Always motivate your employees
- To any ideas that come your away, tell yourself "Why not?" and do it.

"Got to do things -Pisando Fuerte-"

As a great English instructor and as a communicator, Mr. Vaughan also emphasized that for public speaking, you have to know your subject, believe in what you are saying, have the urgent need to share what you know, and transmit it with passion.

He succesfully captivated the audience and fostered its participation, so all attendants to the event enjoyed his speech and lessons.

To learn more about Mr. Vaughan and his business, tune into Vaughan Radio at 101.0 FM or visit:http://www.vaughancamp.com, http://www.vausys.com or http:// www.vaughantienda.com

IE's Entrepreneurs Club organizers: Jorge García (President), Alain Huber (Vice-President), Walid David (Communications), Ilias Hamdouch (Events), Alex Corrie (Social Entrepreneurship), Kapil Jhindal (Alumni, Networking), Alonso Solís (Investors Relations), Robina Leo (Finance), Philipp Diedrich (Venture Lab Support), Roman Korchagin (Events & Networking), and Alfonso Pérez (Events & Networking). All IMBA 2006.

Email: EntrepreneurshipClub@ie.edu
Website: www.ie-entrepreneurs.org

The mission of the IE entrepreneurs Club is to continuously provide its members with access to knowledge and experiences from professors, alumni, students and other professionals. The added value from the club will contribute to successfully create and develop businesses by stimulating the exchange of ideas and networking among its members.

The main objective of the entrepreneurship club is to foster the creation and development of new businesses by IE students and alumni. In order to meet this objective the club organizes activities and events that include:

- Promotion and organization of the "Speakers' Series" in which successful entrepreneurs share their business experiences and knowledge with IE students.
- Organization of Investor Panels to supply IE students who aspire to become entrepreneurs with advice on writing business plans that attract financing resources. Organization of lunches between local entrepreneurs and club members that are looking for the exchange of points of view and networking.
- Establishment and development of links between entrepreneurship clubs of top Business schools to promote networking and exchange of ideas.
- Bringing awareness and promotion of social entrepreneurship and corporate responsibility.
- Creation and development of the IE entrepreneurship club's website, a source of information and meeting point on the web for IE Entrepreneurs and club members.
- Development of permanent relationships between members and IE alumni, the school, other Entrepreneurs and Investors through membership
- Cooperation with the Entrepreneurship Department to help IE in the organization of IE's Venture Lab (the school's incubator for business start-ups developed by IE students and alumni).
- Support IE with the organization of the IE Entrepreneurs Day, bringing entrepreneurs, investors and advisors together by featuring conferences, discussion panels and fostering networking.