Final pitches for STRE2010/5607 this Tuesday

Come one, come all. This Tuesday we are having the final pitches for the students of STRE2010 and STRE5607. Earlier versions of many of the pitches can be seen on youtube, by searching for the course code:  http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=stre2010&aq=f

Last minute changes may apply. With 28 teams, there is only enough time for 3-minute pitches and 2 minutes of Q&A.

Session 1: 1200-1330 in Biomedical Theatre D (just to the right of the entrance off Botany St)

Starting time Randomized Team Order   

12:10 Intro

12:15 Team 8 - Fill N Go    

12:18 Q&A    

12:20 Team 9 - Schmextbooks (Teebii)    

12:23 Q&A    

12:25 Team 11 - Ignite Health    

12:28 Q&A    

12:30 Team 1 - Batter Up!    

12:33 Q&A    

12:35 Team 21 - Etext    

12:38 Q&A    

12:40 Team 7 - Fit Buddy    

12:43 Q&A    

12:45 Team 5 - Social Scene (Easy Shopper)    

12:48 Q&A    

12:50 Team 26 - Q-Hop    

12:53 Q&A    

12:55 Team 20 - Prestige Worldwide    

12:58 Q&A    

13:00 Team 14 - HD    

13:03 Q&A    

13:05 Team 15 - Tramble    

13:08 Q&A    

13:10 Team 27 - SydneyCycle    

13:13 Q&A    

13:15 Team 12 - Headfirst (Smartmouth)    

13:18 Q&A    

13:20 Team 28 - Togethr    

13:23 Q&A    

13:25 Wrap-up Session 1  

Session 2: 1700-1830 in Biomedical Theatre D (just to the right of the entrance off Botany St)

Starting time Randomized Team Order   

17:10 Intro    

17:15 Team 3 - Gamma (Maptic)    

17:18 Q&A    

17:20 Team 18 - Paradigm Breakers    

17:23 Q&A    

17:25 Team 22 - Influx    

17:28 Q&A    

17:30 Team 6 - Blitz Solutions    

17:33 Q&A    

17:35 Team 23 - SocialEyes    

17:37 Q&A    

17:39 Team 25 - Designerama    

17:41 Q&A    

17:43 Team 2 - UniBoard    

17:45 Q&A    

17:47 Team 4 - RayAura    

17:49 Q&A    

17:51 Team 17 - Easy Translator    

17:53 Q&A    

17:55 Team 24 - BarFly    

17:57 Q&A    

17:59 Team 19 - SuperParkTeamWinners    

18:01 Q&A    

18:03 Team 13 - Sleepod    

18:05 Q&A    

18:07 Team 16 - Infinite Loyality Solutions    

18:09 Q&A    

18:11 Team 10 - Glu10 Free    

18:13 Q&A    

18:11 Wrap-up  

Disclaimer:

Most of these students are working on ideas that are only for course credit. However, that shouldn't stop anyone from providing solid business advice that they can learn from to apply to whichever idea they are working on.

Actual projects include:

• Togethr (http://togethr.at/): final pitch in Tuesday evening
• Schmextbooks / Teebii (http://bit.ly/kaOlIH): Pitch #2 in the first session
• Eye dropper (http://bit.ly/lSeWO3): Student in the course, but working on a different idea with his team
• The Entrepreneurial Chase (http://bit.ly/lg9NJ7): Student in the course, but working on a different idea with his team

Other notable outcomes:

• TaxiApps: Winners of the Peter Farrell Cup and JHEC (http://bit.ly/l0vTjn), now looking for beta users (http://bit.ly/kEnHKD)
• Mijura: Presenter at CIE’s 2010 PitchFest, now live (https://mijura.com/company/index)

Coming soon: an update on mentoring and an update on innovative work placements (internships) for Diploma in Innovation Management students

Entrepreneurial Internship Program wrap-up and poster session

Last Wednesday the Design @ Eng exhibition space (5^th floor, Mechanical Engineering Bldg on UNSW Kensington campus) saw the Poster Presentation and wrap-up of the CIE’s Entrepreneurial Internship Program, the culmination of an exciting half-year for both interns and sponsors.

14 students exchanged their summer holidays for work experience at some of Australia’s leading innovative companies. 

Here’s a sampling of the projects on which the interns worked (check reports)

• Disaster response procedures, which unexpectedly got a field-test  during the Queensland floods
• Voice-based psychometric analysis technology
• Video analytics for retail applications
• Software product management
• CRM system development
• Comprehensive communication strategy development for internal and external stakeholders

For the event, students prepared posters detailing the company and the project(s) with which they were involved.

 

After their stint in the world of work, interns also submitted a written report and an evaluation of their experience at the sponsoring organization.  Companies submitted an evaluation of the student and their project, all of which were highly complementary.

“Much higher calibre than expected of one so young,” raved one company representative.

“This is the second intern I have had in 3 years and I continue to derive value for our business [with] this program,” declared another.

Company reviewers were asked for an dollar estimate for the value of the work performed by the intern.  Amounts ranged from $5,000 to $20,000; one interned performed so well that their sponsoring company estimated the value of their work at over $50,000!

During the evening, students presented their poster to their fellow cohort members and to company representatives.  All were impressed at the scope of the students' achievements.

Other comments from the representatives of the sponsoring organizations:

“A great experience overall.  A fresh mind willing to commit to challenging business problems always gives us some surprises, positive ones…the flexibility and commitment demonstrated by the intern greatly helped the team to address some of the burning business challenges in a relatively short time frame.”

“[We] enjoyed working with the 2 interns from the CIE Internship Program and found their contributions to be very helpful and positive for us and the interns.”

The CIE's Director, Dr Martin Bliemel was on hand to present both the students and the company representatives with their certificates of achievement and recognition.

Students were also enthusiastic about their experiences:

“The internship with [company] was an eye opener in terms of learning how professionals in the [industry] think and act.  Its considerably different from any university experience I’ve had previously and it is well worth the experience.”

“Invaluable – an opportunity to be placed in a business [that] is really excited to have you and teach as much as possible.  Gives you an opportunity to work somewhere a student would usually have difficulty finding themselves.”

“It has been the best place I’ve ever worked.  Honestly, I didn’t know that such workplaces even existed…the organisational culture here is brilliant, and it’s a very exciting industry to be in at present.”

All the interns will receive recognition of their successful completion of the program with a statement on their testamur acknowledging their achievement.

Although the CIE is reluctantly discontinuing this highly successful program, a new internship program will be offered in Semester 2 to students and sponsoring companies.  Under the new scheme, students enrolled in the elective INOV4101 class will receive course credit for their work.  We are grateful to the University for supporting valuable experiential learning opportunities for these ambitious students.

We would also like to thank the UNSW Co-op Office for their generous assistance and support.

Finally, many thanks to our industry partners; we very much appreciate your continuing involvement and support, and look forward future opportunities for both students and sponsoring companies.

 

-          Atlassian

-          Homestar Finance

-          Petbarn

-          Medical Australia

-          IP Scape

-          Telcoinabox

-          NICTA

-          ResMed

Mapping Sydney's Innovation System (a pet project)

Hi Everyone,

This is a test to crowdsource mapping out Sydney's Innovation System using Google Docs and NodeXL. To start, I have added CIE and a few affiliated organizations to the initial network map:

To add yourself to the map:

• Open the raw data spreadsheet in google docs and add your (organization's) name to the "Vertices" tab.
• Add a size, roughly equivalent to how many start-ups or teams your organization represents (rule of thumb is 5-6 per team)
• Add a URL to your logo
• Add some info about you in the Tooltip column (or a URL to your homepage)

To add your affiliations to the map:

• Open the "Edges" tab in same spreadsheet
• For each affiliation, add yourself and the affiliate (make sure the spelling is the SAME as in the "Vertices" tab!)

Do NOT change the formatting or columns in the spreadsheet. Unfortunately, I could not upload the xlsx spreadsheet as is, so the map can be drawn automatically. Instead, I have to copy and paste the raw data from the google doc version into the NodeXL version to regenerate the graph. 

If the map on this page looks massively out of date, please nag us at cie@unsw.edu.au to regenerate it. We'll then update this post, and tweet about the update.