The folks at the National University of Singapore Entrepreneurs Association (NUSEA) in Silicon Valley are putting together a stellar event, together with Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students (BASES) and Santa Clara Entrepreneurship Organization (SCEO), in conjunction with the Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW).

NUSEA’s bi-annual conference titled Rainmakers will be held on Saturday, November 21st, from 10am to 1pm (Singapore time). What is really amazing is that while the actual event will be held in Silicon Valley, the event will also video conferenced live at the University Hall Auditorium at National University of Singapore. This is great for entrepreneurs in Singapore because the conference will allow you to learn and engage esteemed speakers such as Seth Sternberg (co-founder of Meebo.com), Steve Blank (serial entrepreneur and author of the startup book “The Four Steps to the Epiphany”) and Saeed Amidi (angel investor and c-founder of Amidi Group). Check the the entire list of speakers here.

Rainmakers Events
The Rainmakers event platform has been running for a few years now. It was first started in November 2005  and the various NUSEA groups try to hold one every 6 months. Some of the past speakers included founders from companies such as Billmonk, LicketyShip, meetro, Zimbra , Doostang and even Mint! It’s interesting to note that most of the companies such as LicketyShip and meetro do not exist today. However, a substantial number of them have become really big success stories. For example,  Billmonk got acquired by Obopay in early 2007, Zimbra got acquired by Yahoo! for a whopping $300 million in 2007 and the most recent one was Mint.com getting acquired by Intuit for $170 million. Gwen from SGentrepreneurs did a really good coverage of the first event here and it is definitely worth checking out. I’m not saying that the Rainmakers event is a great platform for picking out successful startup companies, but it’s fascinating to know what a bunch of Singaporean students spending just a year in Silicon Valley can do.

While I won’t be able to attend this event as I will be in Jakarta for the Yahoo! Open Hack Day (I wish they will be streaming the event on ustream as well), I would seriously urge anyone in the web technology startup space to drop by NUS on November 21st to check out this event. Seth, Steve, Saeed and the rest of the speakers are top notch seasoned entrepreneurs who really know their stuff and have great advice to share. Kudos to the NUSEA team in Silicon Valley for pulling this off and making it available to the Singapore audience.

Before I end this post, I would like to leave you with the video from the first Rainmakers event. Enjoy!