RIT SIFE/Entrepreneurship Club

First Meeting and Time Change

Cleveland Bonner — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:21:03 +0000

The first general SIFE meeting for the year was a huge disappointment. Only 1 other person showed besides Vice-President Rushana Aglyamova and I. I received e-mails from some people that had time conflicts and those were noted but everyone else who would like to be involved with RIT SIFE had no excuse (that has been sent to me) for missing our first big meeting outlining our activities for the year. I know it is Mid-term time and it may be tough on you to come to the meetings but, if that’s the case please e-mail me and tell me beforehand so I won’t expect you to be there. RIT is making big strides for Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship and as a club/team, SIFE should definitely be involved in making those strides come to fruition. Due to time conflicts the meeting time has been changed to Wednesdays at 6:00pm. Be there! There are important things to discuss! The Entrepreneurship conference is only 4 days away!

Cleveland Bonner
President
RIT SIFE/Entrepreneurship Club
http://ritsife.org/

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Let The Meetings Commence!!!

Cleveland Bonner — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:37:53 +0000

Hey guys, the meeting time has been set and it’s Thursdays between 4:00-6:00pm in the College of Business Lobby Area. Come with enthusiasm and show us what you’re all about at our first full member meeting of the year. Bring your friends if you think they will be interested. We will be discussing future projects, officer positions, and other interesting stuff. If you didn’t get this message in an e-mail then this reminder is specifically for you!!!

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Saunders College of Business Picnic

Cleveland Bonner — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:20:10 +0000

The Picnic was a big success this year, overall and for SIFE. We got a good number of new names for our mailing list so hopefully we’ll have a few new members soon! Also, our advisor Peter Rosenthal did some networking and said that he might have some opportunities for SIFE members to coach Virtual Enterprise students. Virtual Enterprise is an international program that helps high school students embrace the business world and learn about the different aspects of it. It would be a great opportunity for us.

Cleveland Bonner
President
RIT SIFE/Entrepreneurship Club
http://ritsife.org/

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New Year And New President

Cleveland Bonner — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 21:18:07 +0000

Welcome all to a new year of RIT SIFE. My name is Cleveland Bonner and I am the new president for SIFE for the 2008-2009 year. I look forward to us having an extremely successful year since we have great backing from our advisors as well as other RIT faculty. Also, we will be stressing the Entrepreneurship factor of our club this year so get ready to be creative and innovative!

To a new and successful year!!!!

Cleveland Bonner
President
RIT SIFE/Entrepreneurship Club
http://ritsife.org/

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ImagineRIT Presentation & Club Finances

Sean Hayes — Sat, 03 May 2008 02:59:49 +0000

We’re going to be at ImagineRIT tomorrow from 10AM to 4PM in the Gordon Field House (Exhibit 483), so be sure to stop by and show your support!

Speaking of support, for those of you who don’t know we’re currently a Tier 1 SG club, which means we receive no funding through Student Government; we rely solely on fundraising, and after our next speaker comes in we’ll be out of money. This year we’ve been so busy with entrepreneurship related events and community outreach that we haven’t had the time to raise money for our own club. We can get a budget from SG if we’re bumped up to Tier 2 or Tier 3, but for that to happen we have to demonstrate that we’re active enough to warrant a tier increase. I ask that everyone show Student Government that we’re worth your tuition dollars by donating a small $10 or $5 gift to RIT SIFE, as our hard working club officers have already done. Your gift can make a difference, especially considering that all student gifts this year are being matched 1:1 by Dr. Destler. Next school year we plan on having at least 2 entrepreneurship speakers come in every quarter, but that and other great activities can’t happen without your support.

How can you give?
You can fill out a donation form, which we’ll have available at our ImagineRIT table tomorrow, at our entrepreneurship speaker event on Monday, and any other events we have this quarter. Donations are tax deductible and can be made with cash, check, or credit card. If you can’t make it to any of our events, feel free to schedule a time to meet with me and make a donation.

Thanks to the following Members who have donated so far:
Josh Tomaka - Member
Rushana Anglyamova - Secretary
Cleveland Bonner - SG Representative
Megan Soriano - Treasurer
Soham Ghosh - Vice President
Sean Hayes - President

Thank you for supporting our club!

Sean Hayes
President
RIT SIFE/Entrepreneurship Club
http://ritsife.org/

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Entrepreneurship Speaker Therese Hannigan from Dumbwaiter Design: Free Food

Sean Hayes — Sat, 03 May 2008 02:01:37 +0000

Entrepreneurship Speaker Therese Hannigan from Dumbwaiter Design
May 5th, 2008
6:00 to 6:30 PM, Then Q&A
SCB Building 12, Room 1115
Free Food (TBD)!
Therese Hannigan from Dumbwaiter Design will be coming to talk about her company and starting a business. You can find our more by visiting their website here: http://www.dumbwaiterdesign.com/. This should be of special interested to anyone who’s an art or design major.

Sean Hayes
President
RIT SIFE/Entrepreneurship Club
http://ritsife.org/

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Business Opportunity: Atomic Security

Sean Hayes — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:51:15 +0000

Here’s a business opportunity Chris Zeilinski wanted me to announce. Last year he won 2nd place in the RIT Business Plan Competition.

The business name is Atomic Security. Here is the executive summary from the business plan:

“Social engineering” refers to the manipulation of people in order to gain access to confidential information. Atomic Security is a service provider that analyzes the strength of the human element of corporate information security. Through the use of contractually arranged, unique social engineering experiments, Atomic Security will probe an organization’s employees and report on the likelihood of an attacker successfully manipulating them into giving out confidential company information. Atomic will allow clients to see holes in their company’s security beyond those exposed by traditional network penetration tests and offer consultation on how to reduce the risk of an information or physical security breach.

What I’m looking for are maybe 4-5 people who have a background in information security and/or hacking, and they MUST have strong knowledge of social engineering. Knowledge of and/or interest in psychomanipulation, interrogation, and even theater would also be good things to have. I’m not terribly picky as I know this is not a revenue generating venture yet, but I expect that the people who get involved with it will want to stick with it and thus I don’t want to end up being someone’s teacher.

If you could just send out a message telling everyone in this group that I am looking for these things and that those interested should send me a copy of their resume and any background they have in infosec/social engineering, it would be greatly appreciated. You can even copy and paste what I’ve said here if that’s easiest.

Any correspondence can go to atomicsecurity at gmail dot com

Thanks a lot!

Regards,

Chris Zielinski

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Congratulations to Peter Rosenthal, RIT Advisor of the Year!

Sean Hayes — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 01:56:36 +0000

Tonight at the Student Government Annual Banquet, our very own Academic Advisor, Peter Rosenthal, was recognized with the Advisor of the Year Award! Be sure to congratulate him when you see him.

In addition to a certificate and plaque for Peter, our club is being awarded with a $100 bonus for a pizza party celebration. More details to follow, so stay tuned.

Attached is the Advisor of the Year Application I submitted, which also links to his extensive biography on the SCB website.

Advisor of the Year Application

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BLT BARBECUE - SUNDAY, APRIL 20 AT 4:00 P.M.

Sean Hayes — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:11:56 +0000

Jerry H. Curnutt
Assistant Dean for Administration
E. Philip Saunders College of Business
Rochester Institute of Technology
(585) 475-4713;
—–Original Message—–
From: Ashok Rao [mailto:]
Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 10:44 AM
To:
Subject: BLT BARBECUE - SUNDAY, APRIL 20 AT 4:00 P.M.

To the Saunders College Faculty & Staff:

All Saunders College faculty & staff [and, surely, SIFE]are cordially
invited to attend the Business Leaders of Tomorrow (BLT) annual barbecue,
this Sunday, April 20, starting at 4:00 p.m. in the plaza in front of the
Lowenthal Building.

The BLT Barbecue is free-of-charge for all faculty & staff, and will feature
lots of great picnic food, and will be followed by a guest lecture featuring
David Mammano, president and founder of NextStep Publishing.

Be sure and stop by - it promises to be a great time!

Ash

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MediSked Presentation

Sean Hayes — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:43:15 +0000

Attached is the MediSked Presentation from March 26th. Tom Hogan also wanted me to let everyone know the Rochester Regional Business Plan Competition is back on. Here’s more information:
Business briefs - Contest seeks entrepreneurs
Lucrative business plan contest under way

Please be aware that the submission deadline is April 21, 2008.

MediSked RIT Presentation 2008

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