Startup SIG
IEEE Silicon Valley Startup Special Interest Group (SIG)
IEEE Silicon Valley Startup Special Interest Group (SIG) aims to foster a network of experienced and budding entrepreneurs to share ideas & best practices, and collaborate on startup opportunities. IEEE Silicon Valley Startup SIG was founded by Joseph Wei, Chair-Emeritus of the IEEE Santa Clara Valley Section (SCV) and Consumer Technology Society-SCV, a serial entrepreneur, startup coach / mentor with experience in corporate venture and in running his own startup incubator.
Mission of IEEE Silicon Valley Startup SIG:
- Create a network for SCV members and non-members to collaborate on startup opportunities
- Provide training / workshops on entrepreneurship, founding and growing a successful startup
- Demonstrate the values of IEEE membership, resources and network in supporting startups
Click here to join our mailing list and be notified of meetings and events
Upcoming events on Startup/Entrepreneurship:
2020 Startup Pitch Event
| 12/3/2020 | IEEE Startup Pitch – Innovations amid COVID-19 |
Past webinars on Startup/Entrepreneurship:
| 2/9/2023 | Building a tech business in a post-COVID world: a VC perspective by Kostas Mailios, Corporate Vice President & General Manager, Applied Materials AI | Slides | |
| 5/19/2022 | People. Planet, Profit: Is incorporating as a Benefit Corporation right for your business? by Ruksana Azhu Valappil, PhD, founder of NEEV Health | Video | Slides |
| 2/3/2022 | The Future of Innovation: Ten Lessons from the Venture Ecosystem by Bill Reichert, Pegasus Tech Ventures | Slides | |
| 10/28/2021 | Life at a Startup – Fascinating Challenges and Opportunities by Daniel Renner (partner event) | Video | |
| 10/21/2021 | Quantitative Strategic Decision Making by Hamed Khalkhali (partner event) | Video | Slides |
| 10/12/2021 | Entrepreneurship: What does it take to succeed? by Milton Chang, Incubic Management LLC | Slides | |
| 8/26/2021 | The Best Marketing Process for High-Tech Startups to Launch Products and Secure Customers by Prem Talreja, Accurate Marketing, Inc. | Video | |
| 7/1/2021 | What You Wish You Had Known about IP Law Before You Invented Something, by Patience Ren, & Clark Waldon from Holland Law LLP | Video | Slides |
| 6/17/2021 | Building A Better Mousetrap” – a fireside chat with David Van Wie and Stan Hanks of Aventurine Capital Group, LLC on IP asset management | Video | |
| 5/27/2021 | 8 Best Practices of Product Realization, by Mike Keer of PRG | Video | |
| 4/20/2021 | Cracking deep tech investments, grants and go to market, by Jing Ge of Vectors Angel | Video | |
| 3/10/2021 | Introduction to VC Financing: How to Conduct Your Series Seed/A Financing, by Jason Putnam Gordon of Polsinelli LLP | Video | |
| 11/17/2020 | Start Your New Venture Correctly: An Intro to Entity Formation for Venture-Backed Companies, by Jason Putnam Gordon of Polsinelli LLP | Video | |
| 10/22/2020 | SBIR & Non-dilutive Grant Funding by Sandra Hryniewicz, Inspiralia | Video | |
| 8/13/2020 | Finding Co-Founders and Building Teams in an Early Stage Startup, by Tom Kosnik, FoundersX | Video | |
| 6/24/2020 | Hardware Entrepreneurship – Insights from successful hardware entrepreneurs – Kurt Petersen, Peter Rodriguez, Sridhar Solur, and Joseph Wei (moderator) | Video | |
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