BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:1.0 BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Venturing in a Connected World DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:"Entrepreneurship on Established ePlatforms: Venturing in a Connected World" Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum. With the missteps of its dotcom infancy behind, e-commerce is now a serious, fast growing part of business life. Amazon, eBay, Google and others have proved the effectiveness of their original goals – even setting performance standards that old line IT systems rarely have met. As these companies mature, their reach is expanding well beyond initial business models to create -- indeed nurture -- platforms and environments for entrepreneurs big and small. Keynote by Bill Gross, Chairman of Idealab!; Panel includes Henry Asseily, Co-Founder and CTO of Shopzilla (formerly Bizrate); Mitchell London, Trustworthy Communications; Steve Loyola, Best Web Buys; moderated by Michael M. Krieger of Willenken Wilson Loh & Stris and Richard Hsu of Townsend & Townsend & Crew. See http://www.entforum.caltech.edu DTSTART:20050118T173000 DTEND:20050118T183000 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR