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Looking for passionate Kellogg students to join our team and help design a business plan for a NIH neurotech startup competition. We're looking to commercialize a novel method of drug delivery to treat Traumatic Brain Injury. Contact Meriel Owen: meriela.owen@gmail.com if interested.

More info about the competition: http://www.neurostartupchallenge.org

The mobile startup URX is enabling partnerships across mobile apps and has a cool opportunity for anyone at Kellogg who is building or has launched a mobile app. URX is from the YCombinator 2013 class and backed by Accel, Google Ventures & First Round Capital.

URX is offering $ incentives and will feature/promote your app on our their App Gallery and social media to try out a music feature. They launched a "Listen Button" that allows you to add music search to your app and get paid for actions from apps like Spotify and Soundcloud. Integration takes ~5 minutes to drop their widget framework into your Xcode project and be up and running without writing any code.

Contact Raj Hathiramani at raj@urx.com

The Kellogg Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative is proud to present the second annual U.S. Cellular Innovation Challenge. The Innovation Group within U.S. Cellular® is sponsoring a team-based Innovation Challenge at The Kellogg School of Management. U.S. Cellular will be at Kellogg for a kickoff event to provide further information about this great opportunity to work on a real-world issue with an established corporate innovation team while competing for a cash prize. ABOUT THE CHALLENGE:
U.S. Cellular will present a business problem currently being contemplated by the company for student teams to solve. This will be an opportunity for student teams to work on a real-world issue while leveraging their skills and creativity in solving unique business problems.This year's challenge will ask students to identify a win-win partnership between U.S. Cellular and an outside company that creates a unique product or service that helps families manage their home, health, finance, or education. Attend the kickoff to learn key considerations, deadlines, and more!

ABOUT THE U.S. CELLULAR INNOVATION GROUP:
U.S. Cellular’s Innovation Group works with all areas of the company to identify, create and help foster the development of new ideas, products, services or market offerings. 

D-Prize is seeking new social entrepreneurs who can solve our planet's most pressing problems. We will award up to $20,000 to anyone who can start a social venture that solves this problem. We are especially excited to fund first-time entrepreneurs from Northwestern. Our support also includes mentorship from leading social entrepreneurs like Kiva President Premal Shah and One Acre Fund founder Andrew Youn.

Proposals are due by December 30. Entrepreneurs can begin by reviewing specific challenges at www.d-prize.org.

We’re excited to announce the registration has opened for Start-up Perú! 

Startup Perú is a Peruvian government initiative led by the Ministry of Production, which aims to promote the emergence of new Peruvian companies that offer innovative products and services with high technological content in international markets and have the potential of generating high quality jobs.

Take a few moments to follow the links below and check out the information provided by Innovate Perú.

1)      Flyer Attached

2)      Event Information & Registration link: http://start-up.pe/

Location: Chicago

Sant is a start-up social enterprise wellness brand that is launching its first product, a dried super fruit that infuses into a fresh beverage. www.idrinksant.com Over the last year, Sant's founder tracked down the little-known superfruit, tested various ways it could be marketed in the U.S., demonstrated product market fit, and built a supply chain from scratch, working directly with farmers in rural India where minimal economic opportunities exist.

Sant is looking for a part-time intern to help in market analysis, and marketing and distribution efforts. See attached for more details and how to apply.

The Diplomat Fellowship is dedicated to creating and discovering solutions for the greatest social impact, in urban communities throughout the world. The Fellowship is an experiential, relevant, practical and exciting way to rethink our assumptions, our collective genius and the ways we solve problems. We aim to produce the next generation of thought leaders who will change not only a community, but also the world.

The 2015 Diplomat Fellows will be visionary change agents, hard at work, incubating new approaches to the planet’s toughest challenges. The program—exposing Fellows to negotiation, entrepreneurship and innovation—is committed to social impact through entrepreneurial action.

More info and applications here

Applications are due Dec 5th

DreamIt Health Baltimore is an unrivaled opportunity for healthtech startups to work closely with Johns Hopkins and the University of Maryland system to establish clinical champions and achieve key business milestones such as product launch and rollout across industry-leading customers. The program runs Jan 30th through May 22nd. 

DreamIt Ventures is looking for teams working on any significant problem in healthcare where software and/or hardware are central to the solution.  The program offers:

• Seed capital (up to $300k per team)
• Access (customers, partners, investors, KOLs, SMEs)
• Coaching (from exited entrepreneurs custom-fit to each startup)
• Free stuff of value (legal, accounting, space, AWS, etc)
• Startup chops (best practice/techniques from active practitioners of craft)

More info and applications at www.dreamithealth.com.

Location: Chicago

Zest is looking for a part-time intern to take the lead in creating marketing content. Specific responsibilities include: crafting marketing strategies to engage our users, writing and maintaining a fun blog, and drafting creative emails to send out to customers. Since Zest is a start-up, you can largely define your own role to make an impact.

The position would require 10-20 hours/week with flexible hours and location. It is unpaid. But...there is an opportunity for future paid summer and/or full-time employment.

https://www.smartrecruiters.com/ZestHealth/79457431-marking-intern?

Location: San Francisco

Blumberg Capital is a SF based venture capital firm with a focus on early stage investments across the IT sector from the networking layer up to ecommerce and everything in between, including financial services, enterprise software, security, mobile applications, marketing automation, e-commerce, digital media, social media and Internet of Things. Blumberg’s investments are primarily based in North America, Israel and Germany.

Blumberg is looking for an Associate who will help research and source deals. They’ll conduct initial review of investment prospects and assessing deal fit according to the firm's investment criteria. The associate will also conduct all aspects of due diligence, including financial and valuation analyses as well as technology and competitive market reviews.

Please visit the Blumberg listing on the CMS for more information and to apply

Alertcaster is an alert notification service that connects devices, applications and systems to people via customized SMS, Phone Calls and Email.  The beauty is with one simple API call (or trigger as speak of it) a developer can make a whole series of notifications from an enterprise grade, massively scalable system – no need to have to create this on your own.

You can go to the Industry uses tab on the home page to get a better sense of how Alertcaster (and the scope of the potential market) can be implemented – use cases.  Also, on the home page is a demo which you can give a try to get a sense of how it works.

The URL: http://www.alertcaster.com

Contact: Yashwanth Hemaraj @ yhemaraj2015@kellogg.northwestern.edu

Co-Presidents -- Priya Mathew & Neil Khare
Marketing & Communications – Katie Augustus, Mrinal Pareek, Melissa Caldwell
Special Events – Michael Burdick
Special Events – Visha Chadha
Careers & Community – Loren Kronemeyer
Branding & Evangelism – Aadhar Shah
Finance – Jamie Ward
Speakers – Tyler Wanke
Education, Skills & Resources – Dan Willoughby
Collaboration – Kate Yeskey