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The International Entrepreneur (TiE) Ohio invites you to a

TiE Anniversary Celebration and Deioma Lecture featuring

“Desh” Deshpande • Founder of billion dollar companies such as Sycamore Networks and Cascade Communications (sold for $3.7 B) • Founder of Deshpande Center at MIT supporting leading-edge technologies, entrepreneurs, and young companies • Charter Member of TiE Global

"Local Entrepreneurship: The Solution to Sustainable, Global Economic Growth?” Innovation is the process of coming up with new ideas, entrepreneurship is all about making it happen. To create a sustainable economic growth we need them both; ability to come with new ideas and to make them happen. In the new connected world, ideas flow freely and innovation is rampant. The opportunity to adopt the innovative ideas to local and global solutions is now open to everyone in the world. The speaker will discuss how to create an eco system that fosters both innovation and entrepreneurship using his personal experience from having founded several companies and having set up the “Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation” at MIT. October 15, 2009 5:00-6:15pm Lecture 6:15-7:30pm Reception Ford Auditorium, Allen Memorial Medical Library, 11000 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio 44106 Lecture and Reception are free and open to the public but you must register online at http://www.time.case.edu/lecture TiE Ohio The event is part of the celebration of TiE Ohio’s first anniversary. The International Entrepreneur (TiE) Ohio is the 50th chapter of the global TiE network that works primarily with international and minority entrepreneurs. Founded in Silicon Valley by immigrant tech entrepreneurs, TiE has 53 chapters around the globe. TiE is now the world's largest organization for fostering entrepreneurship; its members include some of the world's most well-known entrepreneurs. The Ohio chapter provides focused support to entrepreneurs through mentoring, networking, and business education programming, and enables NE Ohio entrepreneurs to access global resources and angel investment funding through its existing networks. To find out more, visit www.ohio.tie.org. The David Deioma Lecture With the generous support of David Deioma, The Institute for Management and Engineering at Case Western Reserve University is pleased to host the David Deioma Lecture. Its goal is to educate the broad university community about aspects of technology-based new venture creation, entrepreneurship, and innovation, including the role of intellectual property, characteristics of the entrepreneur, new venture

financing, and disciplined approaches for the transformation of technological advances into innovations of significant societal impact. To find out more, visit www.time.case.edu