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2008 Calendar
Be involved with the emergence of an organization which will change
Austin! The Austin Inventors and Entrepreneurs Association (AIEA) has
been formed to offer education, support, and developmental guidance to
inventors and entrepreneurs who have unique ideas. -- Join us!
Click on the month for details
When:
4th Thursday of every month
Time:
6:00 PM - 6:30 Networking
6:30 PM - 7:30 Featured agenda
7:30 PM - Join us for a happy hour social at Cool River
Location: Austin Public Library - Milwood
Branch (behind Cool River) 12500 Amherst Drive Austin, Tx
78727
Should an individual or an organization consider presenting at
one of our monthly programs. Please send your request to info2222@austininventors2222.org.
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January
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AIEA Member Share
Speaker: Ed Baxter
Ed is an AIEA member who will share his experiences
on the road to licensing his invention, the CPAP
hose boom. about the different techniques to licensing,
the seminar inspirations gleaned from the USPTO,
independent inventers conference, the mistakes made
along the way, the sticking with it, how to avoid
legal expenses and do more of the processes oneself.
Ed is an accomplished businessman turned
inventor and entrepreneur.
January 24, 2008, 6:00 - 8:00 pm
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February
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City of Austin – Emerging Technology Initiative
Speaker: Eve
Richter
In
context –Economic Development in Austin
Technology Areas
Work Plan
Resources Available
Local
State
Questions
Visit www.austinisit.org for the latest information
about our Emerging Technology initiative!
Sponsor: Mike Romanies
February 28, 2008, 6:00 - 8:00 pm
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March
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Preparing Your Company's Due Diligence Material
Speaker: Sam Thacker
A company’s chances of securing
equity investment or debt will dramatically increase
if the company understands what the investor needs
to review, and is prepared to provide it in a well-organized
format.
List of Due Diligence Material to be
discussed:
- Company bylaws / organizational agreement
- Company minutes / resolutions
- Capitalization table
- Significant company agreements -employment, consultant,
lease, etc
- Buy / sell agreements
- Copies of any issued patents
- Pre-money company valuation analysis
- Revenue visibility list
- Source and use of funds spreadsheet by quarter
- Cash Flow Forecast
Most all companies handle this phase
of the investment process in a reactive fashion.
By preparing company due diligence materials (including
pre-post money valuation) ahead of time and making
them available in both paper and CD-Rom format,
a company will stand out for having strong attention
to detail and good record-keeping. Your company
will stand out in the crowd.

Sponsor: Mike Romanies
March 27, 2008, 6:00 - 8:00 pm
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April
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A Practical Approach to Marketing Research for New
Ventures
Speaker: Suzanne Kalar, President
ProNamix, LLC
Market sizing and market validation
are two critical steps creating a compelling business
case – yet entrepreneurs are often at a loss
as to how to gather and present relevant, valid,
market information.
This session will focus on presenting practical
strategies for locating, digesting, and summarizing
relevant market data. The presentation will cover
topics such as:
o properly sizing the total market opportunity
and addressable market
o low-cost sources of market sizing information
o strategies for validating the market (i.e. going
beyond the published numbers)
o common mistakes in presenting marketing-related
information (i.e. declaring your product has a market
potential of $9 Trillion)
o integrating market projections with sales plans
& strategies

Sponsor: Chris Ritchie
April 24, 2008, 6:00 - 8:00 pm
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Member Share - Hear how Obonok Technologies is making their
way in to the market
Speaker: Charlie Li, Jeff Yin
With a product under provisional patent hear
about the entrepreneurship and product ingenuity the founders
went through. Their work is still a work in progress as
they continue to add certain features to finalize. Hear
how these guys got together and formed a company based on
a common belief despite all that was going against them:
day job, competition, lack of resources in sales and marketing.
Our members will share the same kind of difficulties and
challenges with their own products and companies.

About Obonok Technologies
Obonok Technologies, headquartered in Ningbo
Free Trade Zone, China, provides innovative solutions in
high-definition audio and video content distribution. One
of our core technologies is to use single UTP to extend
HDMI 1.2 digital video and audio with HDCP over long distance.
Our Blu-WireTM 150 series products provide the most cost
effective, high quality and easy to deploy solutions for
HD content distribution. Our products have the following
advantages over our competitors:
1. Single CAT6 or CAT5e cable to extend 1080p HD audio and
video with HDCP to 150 feet;
2. No need for the special cables like STP, or screened
CAT6;
3. US patent pending technologies to support uncompressed
1080p with HDCP;
4. No power supply needed at the receiver end.
5. Automatic compensation for cable length, no manual adjustment
needed.
For more information, please visit our web site
at :http://www.hdext.com
Sponsor: EC Chi
May 22, 2008, 6:00 - 8:00 pm
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Inventor Share: Let's Gel
Speaker: Robb McMahan
Let’s Gel Corporate Overview

Let’s Gel specializes in developing and marketing
proprietary consumer products that utilize advanced polymer
gel technologies. Let’s Gel focuses on high-end products
that have mass market potential and solve significant ergonomic
or safety problems.
There are tens of millions of floor mats sold every year
in the U.S. and for the most part consumers are completely
unaware of the brand they are purchasing. Our goal is to
establish GelPro Mats as the first widely recognized brand
of premium floor mats. To support this goal, GelPro Mats
are advertised in approximately 50 of the largest consumer
magazines every month. GelPro Mats are consistently featured
in Better Homes and Gardens, AARP, Ladies Home Journal,
Women’s Day, Architectural Digest, Real Simple, Cooking
Light, Bon Appetite and many more. Let’s Gel is planning
a cable television campaign in the fourth quarter of 2008
to further support our branding efforts and create pull
through demand for our retailing partners.
Sponsor: EC Chi
June 26, 2008, 6:00 - 8:00 pm
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Corporate Culture
Speaker: Doug Russell


Executive Team Leadership on Corporate Culture
AIEA members of course are primarily interested in finding
funding for their ideas. But the knowledge workers who will
help create and bring to market the IP of the members of AIEA
are a very valuable resource and thus need to be managed to
"well work" in a supportive culture, while maintaining
a high ROI for the company. This briefing, by a engineer and
program manager with 25 years in high-tech product development--including
Motorola and Intel--will present to us, through anecdotes
and examples, a way for knowledge worker leaders to create
the right kind of culture for their workers.
Sponsor: Chris Ritchie
July 24, 2008, 6:00 - 8:00 pm
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Bye Month and Volunteer Happy Hour
Speaker: N/A
Summer Break for our normal agenda. Volunteers
for the organization need to contact Chris to get the skinny
on the Volunteer's Happy Hour location. Hey, any excuse to
be happy!
Sponsor: Chris Ritchie
August 28, 2008, 6:00 - 8:00 pm
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Show me the Money!
Speaker: Rick O'Hara

Executive Team Leadership on Corporate Culture
We’ll be talking about where to look for financing
at various stages in a firm’s lifecycle and reviewing
funding opportunities from angels, VC’s, federal grants,
and SBA loans, with an emphasis on angel funding. We’ll
discuss how firms are valued when an investment infusion is
made and what angels and VC’s look for in a firm. We’ll
discuss liquidity events that angels and VC’s want to
see in your plan, such as mergers, acquisitions, and IPOs.
We’ll finish up by talking about how to find angel and
VC money, and what not to do when looking for money.
Sponsor: Chris Ritchie
September 25, 2008, 6:00 - 8:00 pm
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Understanding Industrial Design Services.
Speaker: Chuck Springs

• What is Industrial Design(ID)?
o Design for form & function
o Optimize manufacture-ability
• How to leverage ID to get your product to market
o Design renderings to solicit investors
o Liaison with Manufacturers
• Concept to Consumer “Smorgasbord”
o Full Service Design firms can offer turn-key “end
to end service”
o Ability to pick and choose exactly those services desired
ID-ONE listens to client's needs and provides strategic vision, unyielding service and tangible design that works! We provide industrial design, graphic design, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and embedded software to help your product to market.
We are a creative services company offering product design and other product related design services. Based in Austin, Texas—creative capital of the Southwest. We are a focused group of industrial and graphic designers and engineers who have designed a broad variety of products for all kinds of markets from consumer and educational to commercial and industrial. We can envision and realize great products on budget and on time.
Sponsor: Chris Ritchie
October 23, 2008, 6:00 - 8:00 pm
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By for Thanksgiving
November 27, 2008, 6:00 - 8:00 pm
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By for Christmas
December 26, 2008, 6:00 - 8:00 pm
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