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	The Society of Venture Engineers is currently seeking two Engineering 
Graduate students to join our Executive team.  Elections for these 
positions will take place at the end of our next regular meeting, 
Wednesday, April 25th, at 5:00pm in ECCR 1B40.  The guest for this
evening 
will be Bruce Holland, Chairman and CEO of SpectraLink Inc., a publicly 
traded technology firm (NASDAQ: SLNK).

	The Society of Venture Engineers is a new student organization, founded
in 
November 2000 by Jake Ablowitz.  The goal of this organization is to
help 
engineering students, including graduate students, learn more about 
business and take advantage of the many exciting options available to 
us.  Our complete mission is available online at our website, 
http://www.colorado.edu/StudentGroups/SVE.  Currently, we have had some 
difficulty reaching Graduate Students, and as such, have decided to
include 
two on the executive team in order to help us better reach graduate 
students as well as better serve and be a better advocate for them.  If
you 
are a graduate student and you have an interest in business, whether
that 
be in starting your own company or joining the management team of an 
existing one, please give strong consideration to this opportunity. 
Many 
companies look for students with leadership experience, especially in
times 
of economic downturn, and this will look extremely good on a resume.  In 
addition, it really is a whole lot of fun and very rewarding, even
though 
it requires extra work.

	Even if you are not interested in an executive position with the SVE, I 
suggest you join us for our meetings.  Our last guest was David
Elmendorf, 
the Vice President of Network Systems with Qwest, and he gave a
fascinating 
and informative lecture on what is important in the role of coordinating 
engineers and businesspeople to help them work together.  Wednesday's 
guest, Bruce Holland, is a true engineer, though he is also an 
executive.  He actually turned down the opportunity to speak to business 
students because he prefers speaking with Engineers.  I know him
personally 
and am quite certain that his lecture will again be very useful, 
interesting, and informative.

	The SVE is also aware that many of you have very interesting, new ideas 
for products and services that could be marketable.  We are currently 
working with the Center for Entrepreneurship and various business
student 
organizations to find ways to help you form project teams with other 
students from engineering and business, both graduate (MS/PhD and MBA)
and 
upper-division undergraduate, write business plans, and start 
companies.  We are well aware of the numerous intellectual property
issues 
involved and are working hard to solve them in a way that is equitable
to 
all involved - more on this to come.

	So, if any of the above information interests you, I strongly urge you
to 
give us an hour or so of your time, and come listen to what we have to 
say.  I really believe you will find yourself glad you did.

	Regards,

	Jake Ablowitz
	President and Founder,
	Society of Venture Engineers