September 16th, 2010 at 6PM

USF College of Business, Room BSN 225

A local serial entrepreneur, Mr. Schaible was featured in the Saint Petersburg Times on August 9, 2010 talking about his most recent entrepreneurial effort – the creation of Atlas Federal Financial Holdings based in Panama.  Mr. Schaible was the founder of the electronic stock-trade NexTrade Holdings in Clearwater in 1995 which grew into a global business, sold one of his companies – OnTrade – to Citigroup in 2006, and was the co-founder of Anderen Bank of Tampa Bay in 2007.

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Welcome back BNFE student members and Alumni!

You can also follow us on Facebook and Twitter.  And for our Alumni, please join us on our LinkedIn page where you can follow the latest news on our subgroups and alumni news.  All of these links can be found on our BNFE website.

Once you are a BNFE member or alumni, please refer to our website or social media accesses for club information and announcements.

BLACKBOARD USAGE:

Some students have asked about our Blackboard page online at USF. Our Blackboard page is currently only used for our prospective students to join the club. (See below).

***Please note that we do not regularly use Blackboard for announcements or club contact. Instead, please go through our website and/or social media sites.

TO JOIN:

Alumni and other non-student members should contact us by email. See Contact page or Alumni page for more details.

To become an official BNFE student member, you will need to first register through Blackboard. To do so, please look for “Request to Join” button under the Student Life tab on Blackboard. Once in the Student Life section, look for the Student Organizations column on the right-hand side.

1. Click on the “Search” button.
2. From the new screen, select from the following drop down menus: 1) Academic and Professional as a category, and 2) Tampa as the campus location.
3. A list of student clubs on our Tampa campus will populate.
4. Look for Bulls’ New Frontier of Entrepreneurship on the list, and click on the “Request to Join” button.
5. That will notify us. In turn, we will contact you or just add your name if you are in the EAS/ business program.

Once you join, please refer to our website or social media accesses for club information and announcements.

Thanks again for you time and patience as transition into the fall semester. We look forward to seeing YOU at our next event.

~Your BNFE and Alumni Officers

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.

We really enjoyed our time as Dr. Kevan Main, Director of Mote’s Center for Aquaculture R&D, gave us a tour of their facilities.  It was a wonderful and unique opportunity to get an insider’s tour at Mote Marine Labs and its MAP facilities. In mid 2009, USF College of Marine Science and Mote Marine Labs announced a landmark affiliation agreement that will allow two of the state’s leading research institutions to join forces in new science ventures, provide expanded learning programs and create economic development opportunities for the region and state.

Our students enjoyed an afternoon learning about the latest in aquaculture research of sturgeon fisheries. The MAP lab looks to build innovations in filtering systems, especially for fish farms, and other types of marine food source. The MAP facility raises sturgeon fishes and then harvest them at various levels of its life cycles.

This new affiliation opens up more opportunities to learn of potential ventures in aquaculture fields that may lead to opportunities for commercialization.

And that’s where our program comes into play.

Another event tour will be planned for the summer of the main Mote Marine Lab facility.

We hope to make this a regular club event as USF and Mote Marine Labs look to build a working relationship and take innovation to commercialization.

Location:

USF Alumni Center, Traditions Hall on January 29th, 2010.

The USF College of Business Administration and BNFE’s 2010 Celebration of Entrepreneurship Luncheon was a huge success. Over 100 attendees, such as area business leaders, USF officials, and our graduate students, participated in the inaugural event. The luncheon hailed the Entrepreneurship master’s program along with the introduction of our new scholarship endowment.

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Certainly, one of the event highlights included the surprise announcement of naming the scholarship after Dr. Michael Fountain.

Later in the spring term, Dr. Fountain was also featured in the Gulf Coast Business Review discussing the Entrepreneurship in Applied Technologies program at USF.

Excerpt from the article:

Michael Fountain’s vision for USF’s entrepreneurship program is built on his own experiences.

That vision focuses on the synthesis of business skill, biomedical
research and engineering capability into a successful business
operation.

Fountain’s research experience has taken him from Princeton, N.J. to
Silicon Valley to Philadelphia, and has included the formation of seven
companies, three of which have gone public.

Here in Tampa Bay, Fountain’s work has helped Dermazone Solutions —
a company featured in a December 2009 issue of the Review — bring its
advanced skin care products to market.

Bringing the fruits of researchers’ labor to market drives USF’s
entrepreneurship program. It’s a unique opportunity for biochemists and
pharmaceutical researchers with an entrepreneurial itch.

It’s a focus that has helped individuals like Kevin Sill, chief
scientific officer at Intezyne, make their own waves in the business
world instead of signing on with a pharmaceutical giant.

Take the latest addition to the program’s curriculum, for example, a
class called product development. Inside, students work with existing
companies to design and test innovative concepts that fit real-world
needs.

Other classes take on challenges like patents and federal compliance
— think FDA approval for a drug. They’re concepts that you wouldn’t
learn in either a chemistry lab or an MBA setting.

Put it all together and you get a unique educational opportunity that Fountain calls “a truly green field to plow.”

(To read more, click on link).

Let’s get to it!  There are so many events planned for this 2010 Spring term.  We encourage our students to roll up their sleeves and jump into our next event.  We look to offer three events per month: an learning activity, a guest speaker or conference, and a social event.  Be sure to check out the events page for more details.