【Speaker】Tim Draper－Founder and Managing Director of DFJ DragonFund China

【Topic】Change the World

【Time】May 8, 19:20 p.m.－21:00 p.m, 2008

【Venue】Room 401, Shunde Building, Tsinghua SEM

【Language】English

【Organizer】The National Entrepreneurship Research Center, Tsinghua University

1st National Graduate Technological Entrepreneurship Competition Preparatory Committee

【Co-organizers】Tsinghua MBA Alumni Association

Student Internet Association of Tsinghua University

【To get ticket】TUE afternoon and the entire day of WED,THU

Weilun 369, Tsinghua SEM

【Background Information】*（Speaker's bio, etc.)

Timothy C. Draper is the Founder and a Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson. His original suggestion to use "viral marketing" in web-based e-mail to geometrically spread an Internet product to its market was instrumental to the successes of Hotmail and YahooMail, and has been adopted as a standard marketing technique to hundreds of businesses. On behalf of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Mr. Draper serves on the boards of Glam.com, Tagworld, SocialText, decentral.tv, and Chroma Graphics. Previous successes include: Skype (EBAY), Overture.com (YHOO), Baidu (BIDU), Parametric Technology (PMTC), Hotmail (MSFT), PLX Technologies (PLXT), Preview Travel (TVLY) and Digidesign (AVID), among others.

As an advocate for entrepreneurs and free markets, Mr. Draper is regularly featured as a keynote speaker in entrepreneurial conferences throughout the world, has been recognized as a leader in his field through numerous awards and honors, and has frequent TV radio, and headline appearances. He was #7 on Forbes Midas List and #52 on the list of the most influential Harvard Alumni.

Mr. Draper is also the course creator and Chairman of BizWorld, a 501c3 organization built around simulated teaching of entrepreneurship and business to children. He has a BS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.