Passing on a good opportunity for a web designer. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dianne Doherty <ddoherty at msbdc.umass.edu> Date: Tuesday, November 16, 2010 Subject: Help To: Val Nelson <val at valnelson.com> Val. This is a long shot but a star client desparately needs and deserves help. She would need to work on a deferred compensation basis but it could be great exposure if you can possibly help. Here is her email to a friend. If any possibility of help call or email Linda or me with any questions. Tnanks Val. Hope all is well and business is good. Dianne From: "Craib, Linda" <Linda.Craib at yale.edu<mailto:Linda.Craib at yale.edu><mailto:Linda.Craib at yale.edu<mailto:Linda.Craib at yale.edu>>> Date: November 16, 2010 10:41:36 AM EST To: Katherine Axt <katherinemaxt at gmail.com<mailto:katherinemaxt at gmail.com><mailto:katherinemaxt at gmail.com<mailto:katherinemaxt at gmail.com>>> Subject: Need some help! Hi Kate, Hope this finds you well. I'm hoping you might have a contact or an idea to help me with a pressing issue! I think you know that I started a small company while at Yale---it won the Henry F. McCance Award for Entrepreneurship (Henry McCance is Chairman of Greylock Partners and Yale '64 http://www.greylock.com/team/team/7/). The business provides parents with autism risk analysis, surveillance, and screening technology for early intervention. My daughter (now at MHC) and my first grandson have both been diagnosed. The business idea caught the eye of my healthcare IT professor Richard Foster....Dick is a former (30 year) Director of McKInsey & Co in the healthcare, energy, and private equity practices. He is on the BOD of Mount Sinai, Athena Health, and the Council on Foreign Relations...he also is managing partner of the Millbrook Management Group, a hedge fund in NYC. Dick has become my primary business advisor and my good friend. My team also consists of a number of scientific and business advisors--many world experts including Connie Bagley (SOM law Prof), James Boyle PhD (runs Yale business incubator), Merk Gerstein (runs Yale bioinformatics program) and Marissa King (Yale SOM -autism risk expert). We are in the running for one of the $250K Pepsi Refresh grants (voting begins December 1). I wrote and directed an animated short with a student at RISD for our application and it is on youtube. We have a FB and Twitter account. The problem: I had an offer from a group of students at UMass to create a website (very basic) but part of the grant funding budgeted $75K for full site development. The students sent me their early effort and it is just not what I need at this stage. I am desperately trying to find a web designer...or even just someone who can create a single page for us, so that when the Pepsi application goes live that we will have something. I'm wondering if you know anyone who might be interested in creating the page. We could offer reasonable payment for the work contingent upon our winning the grant. It could also result in a contract to create the full site. The page could include a link to the company/person providing the website in support of Alea Diagnostics. I would also write about their help in my next article for BusinessWeek. Hope you might know someone! Linda ps. Here is the animated short I wrote and directed. Alea Diagnostics <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV32CqtGgJs> Dianne Fuller Doherty, Regional Director Massachusetts Small Business Development Center Scibelli Enterprise Center One Federal Street Springfield, MA 01105 (413) 737-6712 x101 (413) 737 2312 fax ddoherty at msbdc.umass.edu Your success is our business