[Hidden-tech] Web design opportunity

Val Nelson val at valnelson.com
Wed Nov 17 08:28:37 EST 2010


Passing on a good opportunity for a web designer.

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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

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