WHEN: April 27, 2009 to May, 1 2009

WHAT: Yale Club of Southern California Board Member PARAG PATEL invites you to:

Incubation Week

WHY: The current economic downturn is putting many entrepreneurs under increasing
pressure, making it critical to find new resources and ways to reduce costs and inefficiencies at
the same time growing the business. Windows 7 will create new market opportunities for
software vendors to build richer application experience with more natural user interaction like
Windows touch (ink, gesture support and handwriting recognition), new taskbar, rich animation
framework and extensible ribbon. Windows 7 provides a solid development platform and
innovative tools as well as providing the best of Windows and the web by enabling rich web
experience and extending web services to client applications.

The incubation week will provide an opportunity to:

• Learn and build next generation application on Windows 7 platform with the help of on-
site advisors.

• Listen and learn from experts about successful ventures and legal issues (in part
presented by Yalie Parag Patel)

• Generate marketing buzz for your ideas

• Create potential opportunity and exposure to be highlighted at the Windows 7 launch

Microsoft is inviting nominations for the incubation week from startups interested in building
Windows 7 applications that targets the following scenarios:

• Windows touch( ink, multi-touch gesture support, handwriting recognition) applications

• Sensor network applications(GPS, light, motion)

• Rich client/animation applications

WHERE: The Windows 7 Incubation Week will be held at Microsoft Technology Center,
Irvine, CA from Mon 4/27/2009 to Fri 5/01/2009. This event consists of ½ day of training, 3 ½
days of active prototype/development time, and a final day for packaging/finishing and reporting
out to a panel of judges for various prizes.

OTHER DETAILS: This event is a no-fee event (plan your own travel expenses) and
each team can bring 3 participants (1 business and 1-2 technical). To nominate your team, please
submit the following details to Suresh Sreedharan or Woody Pewitt. Nominations will be judged
according to the strength of the founding team, originality and creativity of the idea, and ability
to leverage Windows 7 Platform.

Organization Details
Name
Web Site URL
Mailing Address
Solution Overview

Target Industry

Company Size and Year

Founded

Team Details
Participant 1:
Name
Brief BIO
Email
Phone
Participant 2:
Name
Brief BIO
Email
Phone
Participant 3:
Name
Brief BIO
Email
 Phone

You may also want to enroll in the recently launched Microsoft BizSpark, an exciting
new offering that enables software startups to leverage Microsoft development and platform
technologies to deliver next generation web and Software + Services applications. For details see
here.

For more details on Windows 7, visit Windows 7 MSDN site