• Provide an opportunity to share entrepreneurial stories with the media
• Connect with other top students who might join their venture
• Share cutting-edge ideas with other bright minds
• Provide selected investors with a first look at the companies of tomorrow
• Create lasting mentoring relationships with successful leaders from around the world
• Foster relationships with select professional firms

In attendance will be over 100 highly successful mentors, over 500 of the world's most innovative students, and members of the local, national, and global media.

Additionally, an impressive group of featured guests will be in attendance, including Admiral William Owens (Former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff), Peter Diamandis (Founder & CEO, X-Prize Foundation), Maria Bartiromo (Anchor, CNBC), Duncan Niederauer (CEO, New York Stock Exchange), Bob Berkowitz (Former White House Correspondent), Ellen Kullman (Chairman and CEO, DuPont), and many more.

The ChronoWake Team would like to thank the Kairos Society for the unique honor of presenting our company at this summit.

The first such competitor utilizes a motion-detection mechanism to attempt to determine the ideal time to wake up by estimating sleep stages. However, monitoring movement is only an indirect measure of sleep stage, and is thus, by definition, less accurate and precise than utilizing EEG (electroencephalography), the primary mechanism utilized by ChronoWake. It may occasionally wake the user at the ideal time, but not nearly at the rate of our product.

The second competitor does, in fact, attempt to utilize EEG to determine sleep stage. With some of our funding, the ChronoWake Team purchased this $400 product and tried it out ourselves. Despite a higher price point than our product, it doesn't seem to work at all. In fact, during testing by one of our team members, he awoke several times during the night, once actually getting up and leaving the bed for a few minutes. In its sleep summary the next morning, this product claimed that he slept soundly through the night and never awoke until the morning. Obviously, if this product cannot detect whether one is awake or asleep, it will not be able to initiate waking at an ideal time.

In summary, both products appear to rely at least partially on the placebo effect. Conversely, our product relies on proven scientific methods to determine sleep stage. In fact, the only scientifically and medically valid way to determine sleep stage is primarily through EEG, as demonstrated by these papers, among many others.

Emergence of competitors is not a negative. In fact, we consider it a great sign - that the basis of our product has been validated in the business world. Other companies that have also done the market research have come to the same conclusion as us: there exists a large enough market to warrant large research and development expenditures. As a well-respected entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and professor once said, "If you can't find any competitors, you either haven't looked hard enough, or no one will want your product." And with a technologically superior product, we have no doubt that ChronoWake will dominate this market.

From November 16-17, 2009, top bioscience leaders will be at Biotech 2009 to network, connect with potential partners, share business strategies, and learn from their peers.

These leaders include top executives from the region's global pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device, and diagnostic companies; venture capitalists and other investors; university researchers; university-industry liaison officers; government officials; and support organizations.

In its ninth year, this annual joint symposium of BioNJ and Pennsylvania Bio is designed to advance the growth and development of the bioscience industry in our region. It will facilitate opportunities for information sharing, new skill development, networking, collaboration, and partnering among companies at all stages of the continuum.

Fred Hassan

Biotech 2009 will be featuring world-renowned speakers, including David Holveck (President and CEO of Endo Pharmaceuticals, a global pharma company with over 1,200 employees) and Fred Hassan (pictured on right, Chairman and CEO of Schering-Plough Corporation, a $50 billion healthcare company).

Registration for this event normally costs over $1,000. Thanks to a generous grant from the U.S. Department of Labor and the DVIN Life Science Fellowship Program, Ryan's registration fee has been subsidized fully, allowing him to attend this event for free.

Find registration information here. If you'll be attending, let us know, and be sure to say hello!

Penn Startup Internship Fair

ChronoWake has been invited to participate at the Penn Startup Internship Fair being held on November 20, 2009, in Jon M. Huntsman Hall. The event brief is pictured on the left (click for full resolution). This fair will give us an excellent opportunity to recruit some of the brightest Ivy League students, in disciplines ranging from business to engineering. View the logos of the participating companies.

Thanks to Eduardo Orozco of Campus Escapes, a fellow Wharton VIP company, for organizing this fair.

VIP Networking Event in the Science Center

Please join Wharton Entrepreneurial Programs and the University City Science Center in a Networking Event with students from the Wharton Venture Initiation Program on Monday, November 9 from 6:00 - 8:00 pm at University City Science Center. Join us for refreshments and mix with Wharton/Penn's best and brightest student entrepreneurs along with some of the Philadelphia region's leading business professionals including numerous Wharton and Penn alums. This event is a rare opportunity for the area's VC, angel, legal, and financial services communities to meet and mingle with both rising and seasoned entrepreneurs.

The area's leading professionals were in attendance, and ChronoWake has made many valuable contacts, including investors and legal consultants.

We would like to thank the Wharton Venture Initiation Program and the University City Science Center for this great opportunity to help fulfill our business objectives.

• Startup Operations
  Alex Gellman, President & COO, Global Tower Partners
• Launching a Successful Business as a Penn Student
  Nathaniel Stevens, Founder, Yodle
• Fundraising for Startups
  Deepak Sindwani, Principal, Bain Capital Ventures
• Grant Funding for Early Stage Ventures
  Christopher Laing, PhD, Director of Science & Technology, University City Science Center
• Prototyping
  Jason Halpern, Founder, Power Flower Solar

The ChronoWake Team gained excellent information and assistance to further venture objectives. We would like to thank Wharton VIP for organizing this great event.

We are looking for top emerging private companies that are having the most impact on the public sector. This includes private companies that are demonstrating significant market traction and pursuing game-changing technology.

We're thrilled to have been nominated for this renowned competition, contending with such companies as Clearwire, Education.com, and FireEye.

The winners will be honored at OnDC 2009, taking place October 19-21 at the Four Seasons Hotel Washington DC.

We're happy to announce that we've been featured by University Startups, including a well-written article by Ashish Sharma. Additionally, our news feed has been added to Wharton Entrepreneurial Programs' Entrepreneurial Advantage Blog. This increasing publicity has been fostering even more interest in our company.

We're enthusiastic about the progress we've been making. It's nothing short of exhilarating to witness the evolution of our product from a concept to a physical, functional entity!

ChronoWake will be presenting from 3:20 PM - 3:40 PM. A reception, with food and refreshments, will be held from 3:45 PM - 5:00 PM. The Awards Ceremony will take place from 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM.

Please attend and help support ChronoWake! The team with the best ratings wins the $500 Audience Choice Award, and each audience member who submits a rating is entered in a raffle to win a Nintendo Wii! We hope to see you there.

Bright Ideas? Philly has them. The Entrepreneur Expo, a Philly Startup Leaders, Inc. event, sponsored in part by the Science Center and University City Keystone Innovation Zone, will showcase the work of top Philadelphia-area entrepreneurs in a tradeshow setting, with an estimated 50 exhibitors and a select number presenting keynote addresses about their emerging businesses.

The Expo welcomes entrepreneurs, students, educators, and investors; leaders in the political, legal, and business communities; as well as those who are thinking about starting a new company, to actively participate in this event. Participants will experience a vibrant setting while networking with future business leaders to learn about their exciting new businesses.

This event is free and open to the public.

• Date: Thursday, April 2, 2009
• Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
• Place: University City Science Center (3711 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA)

Register to attend and get your free ticket here. If you'll be there, feel free to stop by and say hi!

Please join Wharton Entrepreneurial Programs and the University City Science Center in a Networking Event with students from the Wharton Venture Initiation Program on Wednesday, March 25 from 6:00 - 8:00 PM at the University City Science Center. Join us for refreshments and mix with Wharton/Penn's best and brightest student entrepreneurs along with some of the Philadelphia region's leading business professionals including numerous alums.

We were given the honor of being invited to exhibit our company along with five other startup ventures. Consequently, Ryan Goldstein, President/CEO, presented an overview of ChronoWake to the 100+ attendees of this event, including renowned venture capital, angel, legal, and financial service professionals. We have gathered significant additional interest in our venture, plus several offers of resources and support.

We greatly appreciate the effort and resources of Wharton Entrepreneurial Programs and the Science Center to put together this excellent event.

We were recently notified that we have been selected to present ChronoWake at the exclusive, invite-only Kairos Summit, being held aboard the USS Intrepid aircraft carrier on April 3-4, 2009. Some of the distinguished speakers include:

• Bill Clinton: 42nd President of the United States.
• William Gates Sr.: Co-Chairman of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
• Admiral Bill Owens: Former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
• Scott Mednick: Founder of Legendary Pictures and Mandalay Entertainment.
• Naveen Jain: CEO of Intelius Inc.
• Ellen Kullman: CEO of DuPont.

In attendance will be 500 of the country's most innovative students from the nation's top universities, business and political leaders, and local, national, and global media. We are extremely fortunate not only to have been invited to this event, but to have been invited to present our venture to the hundreds of attendees.

Watch a CNN interview with Ankur, founder of the Kairos Society, and view the press release for this event. The ChronoWake Team is eagerly anticipating presenting at this spectacular venue on the flight deck of the USS Intrepid aircraft carrier!

Congratulations! You have made the final round for PennVention. Our judges felt that your idea was one of the best submitted. Looking forward, the next round will consist of your team giving a 'pitch' of your idea to judges and a live audience on Friday, April 10th.

We would like to thank the Weiss Tech House and the PennVention Committee and Judges for the distinction of being selected a PennVention finalist. In addition to the prizes, selection as a finalist certainly enhances our reputation and eminence among not only Philadelphia's entrepreneurial community, but also on a national and global scale.

Donny Deutsch

Ryan Goldstein, President/CEO, Rob Goldstein, Chief Financial Officer, and Josh Magarick, Chief Technology Officer, represented ChronoWake yesterday at the 2009 Wharton Entrepreneurship Conference. This was a fantastic opportunity to network and obtain invaluable feedback. Further, the team met informally with Donny Deutsch (pictured) before his keynote speech, from which ChronoWake may be featured on his popular show on CNBC, The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch.

Additionally, the ChronoWake Team would like to thank the hundreds of people who stopped by our table at the Expo to learn more about our venture. We hope you enjoyed talking with us as much as we enjoyed talking with you! Feel free to download a copy of the handout that we were giving away at our table.

I'd like to congratulate you on being selected by our judges to be part of the 2009 Wharton Entrepreneurship Conference Expo. This qualifies you to attend the conference and demonstrate your business in our Startup Expo, where you'll gain exposure to our 500+ attendees, including venture capital investors, industry professionals and talented students. There were many applicants, so your selection is a testament to the promise that our judges see in your business model, product, and team.

Some of the benefits of being selected to the WEC25 include:

• A unique opportunity to present our venture to a vast network of VCs and entrepreneurs, including Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Highland Capital.
• Exposure to potential employees/partners and other like-minded entrepreneurs from Wharton, Penn and the Philadelphia student and professional community.
• Meeting Wharton MBAs and Penn Engineering students who can do work free of charge for our venture.
• Meeting leading providers of business services, such as Morgan Lewis (legal) and Cohen Partners (insurance).
• Valuable, positive media exposure for our business in leading online and print blogs and publications including the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, CNN, and more.
• Free attendance to premier keynote speeches and panels composed of industry leaders focused on the entrepreneurship ecosystem.

The conference will be held on Friday, February 13, 2009 at the Philadelphia Marriott Hotel from 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM. The keynote speakers are Julian A. Brodsky, co-founder of Comcast Corporation, and Donny Deutsch, host of CNBC's The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch and founder and chairman of Deutsch, Inc, a $2.5 billion strategic marketing company.

Anyone can register to attend. It costs $45 for students and $85 for everyone else. If you'll be there, feel free to stop by our table and say hi!