Kick-Off Event:   September 22nd, 2011

ResearchOne is a celebration of research-related activities and events that showcase the work of our researchers throughout the USF System. From its beginnings as a single week of events in the Fall of 2008, ResearchOne has expanded to promote USF research-related events and activities year-round, on all USF campuses.

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ResearchOne 2011   http://www3.research.usf.edu/researchone/

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Four New Business E-Resources Available

Four significant online resources with a Business focus have recently been added to the online collection of the USF Libraries. For each title, access is now online only. Funding for these resources comes in part from USF Sarasota-Manatee.

The International Directory of Company Histories provides detailed information on the development of any of the world’s 4,550 largest and most influential companies.

Entries provide information on founders, expansions and losses, labor/management actions, NAIC codes, key dates, ticker symbol, principal subsidiaries, principal divisions, principal operating units, principle competitors and other significant milestones – complete with statistics, dates and names of key players. Vols. 1-6 are organized alphabetically by major industries; Vol. 7 and subsequent volumes are arranged alphabetically by company name within each volume. Each volume includes a cumulative index to companies and personal names. Vol. 7 and subsequent volumes include a cumulative index to industries. Starting with Volume 37 a geographical index to companies sorted by country of head office. USF purchased the online volumes from v.1- v.58 and then v. 105 to the present.

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Ward’s Business Directory of U.S. Private and Public Companies

This resource provides current company and industry profiles for over 100,000 U.S. companies, 90 percent of which are private. The database can be searched by company name, ticker symbol, zip code, city or state, SIC or NAICS codes, assets, employee count, officers, and other variables. Results can be sorted by financial data, geography, employees, etc. Ward’s Business Directory is part of the Gale Directory Library. It may be searched as a single source or in a cross-search with other directories.

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Market Share Reporter

Part of Gale’s Directory Library collection, the publication provides comparative business statistics (arranged by 4-digit SIC code) for companies, products and services. With over 3,600 individual entries, queries can be built using descriptors such as: NAICS code, subject heading, and title. All entries also include source information.

Search results can be displayed by title, publication date, and geography. Saved searches can be downloaded in HTML format.

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SRDS Online provides access to electronic versions of the following SRDS print publications:

Business Media Advertising: Provides comprehensive, multi-platform planning information on domestic and healthcare trade media. Media are classified into more than 190 markets, with more than 30,000 updates every year.

Consumer Media Advertising Source: Provides complete planning information on U.S. and international consumer magazines. This database contains standardized ad rates, dates, contact information, and links to online media kits, Web sites, and audit statements that provide additional facts on readership information and positioning.

Direct Marketing List Source: This source provides an index and search fuctions that focus on e-mail lists. Using DMLS, researchers can locate consumer and business-to-business e-mail lists in 212 market classifications. Information covered includes complete list rental information, sources, selects, costs and other information useful for direct marketing campaigns.

Newspaper Advertising Source: Provides complete planning information on daily ethnic, college, and international newspapers and newspaper-distributed magazines and newspaper groups. This database contains standardized ad rates, dates, contact information, and links to online media kits and Web sites that provide additional facts on readership information and positioning.

Radio Advertising Source: Provides complete planning information on AM/FM commercial radio stations in the U.S. This database contains format detail, demographics, and contact information.

TV & Cable Source: Provides information on broadcast, cable, syndicated, and alternative television advertising opportunities in the U.S. Over 3,400 listings identify commercial and noncommercial stations, broadcast networks, multiple station owners, cable systems, interconnects, cable networks, MSOs, syndicators, and sales reps. A separate section covers Latin American ad outlets.

Local Market Audience has a market profile section that characterizes demographic and lifestyle proclivities of Designated Market Areas (DMA) and counties; a lifestyle analyst section that cross tabulates interests and behaviors, ranking them within DMAs; and demographic reports that illuminate interests and behaviors with reference to age, income, marital status and life stages.

For access to these databases and other library resources visit http://www.lib.usf.edu. Click on Databases by Title/Subject to begin.

USF has grown to be a strong research University with an important economic impact on the Tampa Bay Region and Florida. The underlying component of USF that drives its research initiatives is the talent of faculty, staff and students. In every corner of the University great scientists, scholars and educators are teaching the next generation of students how to be competent researchers.

Membership:

The ACADEMY is open to all members of the USF community including alumni and affiliates who have received an issued patent from the USPTO. An annual meeting and recognition ceremony will be held during the academic year and a list of members will be published, in order to enhance networking, recognition, and the opportunity to share your experiences. The Academy will also participate during USF Research Week.

The purpose of the ACADEMY is:

1. To recognize publicly a cadre of investigators who are also inventors.
2. To enhance visibility of University technology development, promote entrepreneurship and be advocates for USF innovation in the Tampa Bay Community.
3. To be a resource for the Tampa Bay community to facilitate greater industry research contracts and interactions with companies and organizations in order to increase economic impact.
4. To increase awareness of intellectual property at USF by mentoring, fostering and encouraging other faculty, staff and students to develop their intellectual property and inventions.
5. To help shape society by being in a position to understand the translational use of inventions at USF and elsewhere; and be a role model in such endeavors for students.
6. To develop relevant invention-based activities in collaboration with the Division of Patents and Licensing.

  http://www3.research.usf.edu/inventors/usf-academy.asp

Open to All of Our Entrepreneurship Students and Alumni

Behind the Scenes Tour:

Mote Marine Laboratory and the Mote Aquarium

Tech Venture Conference Volunteer Opportunity

The Florida Technology Journal’s Tech Venture Conference is here again and they need some entrepreneur volunteers.  If you are interested in helping with registration and running the event, please contact Eliot at dill2 {at} mail.usf.edu to reserve your spot.  Volunteer positions are limited so RSVP ASAP.

Details below:

Event: Friday, December 3, 2010 at Sonesta Orlando Downtown Hotel.

Registration starts at 7 am.  Volunteers will need to arrive 30 minutes early.

For more information:

http://www.floridatechnologyjournal.com/tech-venture-2010

About the conference

TechVenture 2010 will showcase next-generation technologies being developed by Florida’s emerging technology companies.

The 2010 event will serve as an ideal meeting place that connects entrepreneurs and executives of early stage and growth stage technology companies from throughout Florida with sources of capital, economic development professionals, corporate buyers, technology transfer professionals, university researchers, incubators, media, successful entrepreneurs and premier service providers.

Through educational keynotes and demonstrations of cutting-edge technologies being developed across Florida, TechVenture provides a forum to network with some of the industry’s most influential high-tech leaders and entrepreneurs within the region.

Industries represented include:

• Alternative Energy
• CleanTech
• Cloud Solutions
• Hardware
• Digital Media
• Medical Device
• Software
• Web Applications
• Wireless Technologies

Agenda

Friday, December 3,  2010

*Note – agenda subject to change

Delivering Happiness Bus Tour

Tony Hsieh, the CEO of Zappos.com is coming to town next week [Monday, Oct 18th, as of now] for a book signing, Q&A, BBQ, Live music, who knows?  He is on tour promoting his book through a variety of event functions.  The book is an inspiring entrepreneurial story and highly recommended.

Details are still TBD, check out:  Tony Hsieh to visit Tampa, FL

To see Tony in action, check out: Tony Hsieh – CEO of Zappos.com discussing company culture

Event: “You think you know… but you have no idea…” about Dr. Fountain
Date: Oct 14th, 2010
Time: 6pm – 7pm
Where: USF COB Building, BSN 225

Our speaker…
…Has a sports beverage in the market endorsed by Tennis star Andy Roddick
…Has created a high-line cosmetic line sold at Neiman Marcus, Bloomindale’s, and in Europe
…Had a partnership with BluBlocker Sunglasses
…Has bootstrapped; brought his start-up through IPO; and has set-up an European business…

Please join us in this round table event while we go down the Corporate Journey with Dr. Michael Fountain and find out how everything started, the twists in life, the price and the rewards that invention and entrepreneurship can bring.

Please RSVP via Facebook or contact_us@bnfe.org.

Motes' Automated Underwater Vehicle (AUV), Slocum Glider

Friday, October 29, 2010, 1:00PM -5:00PM:

Behind the Scenes Tour of Mote Marine Laboratory.

The tour will include a “Behind the Scenes” look at Mote’s groundbreaking laboratories and research facilities.

It will also include a question and answer session with Mote’s patent agent, other members of the research staff, and those involved in bringing Mote’s innovations to either the market or for use within Mote.

Following the tour, attendees may enjoy free time in Mote’s Marine Mammal Center and Aquarium.

Incorporated in 1955, Mote Marine Laboratory encompasses three campuses

with over 191 staff members and seven major research divisions.

More information is available at www.mote.org.

The tour will conclude with free time in the Aquarium.

That will allow those that would like to leave early to avoid traffic to do so

if they chose or stay longer depending on their preference.

Saving sea life from the Gulf's oil spill.

MOTE MARINE LABORATORY – Sarasota

If you choose to visit Mote Aquarium on your own, please feel free to use this coupon flier as provided by Mote Marine. Mote invites visitors to explore the secrets of the sea with touch pools, shark, dolphin, manatee and sea turtle exhibits and over 100 other species of marine life. Viewable working labs and interactive theaters showcase recent discoveries in marine science and the world-renowned research of Mote Marine Laboratory. Discover why sea life matters at Mote. Open 365 days a year, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Located in Sarasota, FL.

To use this coupon:
• Print from your computer’s menu bar

1. •Cut along dotted line
2. •Take coupon to ticket window



Earlier this week, BNFE student members were invited to attend the Tampa Bay Technology Forum’s

(TBTF) Emerging Companies Network. This event showcased the Tampa Bay WaVE group,

a non-profit member organization of area Web venture entrepreneurs. Allen Clary of Jibidee,

Karen Post of Oddpodz, and Brian Burridge of Agile Nomads headlined the panel discussion titled,

“Avoiding Pitfalls in Website Development- Lessons for Entrepreneurs.” Each of spoke about their

experiences in creating their Web ventures providing simple, but sometimes forgotten, lessons and

insight for those seeking to dive in to this space.

In summary, here are the panel’s top words of wisdom for future Web entrepreneurs:

1. Do Your Due Diligence: Read & understand all vendor contracts; research vendors by calling past clients of jobs similar to the one you are hiring for; make sure there is enforceability in the contract if deadlines are missed by the vendor.

2. Stick to your Core Competency: Don’t try to be everything and do everything- Keep it Simple! Having a lot of startup capital doesn’t solve all problems, sometimes it can make things more complicated, because you have the cash you think you can do more

and without clear direction this equals a high burn rate.

3. Be obsessed with the project.

4. Creating a Web venture is not simply building a Website, it’s product development and you’re hiring

your product development team.

5. The cost the Web developer (or other vendors) quote, multiply it by two (2x) or maybe three (3x).

He/she already has [developers in the room agreed].

6. It’s difficult to get traction on the Web- It’s Not “If you build it, they will come.”

7. Have someone involved who has done this before- writing code is different than building a product.

8. Create a Website wireframe prior to hiring a developer, the storyboard of the entire site’s design and structure.

See if he/she gives you push back or tries to up sell non-critical features.

*Tip: Create a wireframe: Balsamiq

9. Hire an intermediate, a project manager linking the business (AKA the product vision) to the code,

like a CTO or Tech Advisor. This person needs to lean toward the overall product, not the code.

10. Suggested reading: “Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules”