Invention to Venture
A one-day boot camp style workshop! This workshop at WPI will present topics from opportunity recognition to how to take a good idea to market. Plenty of networking time is built in to meet speakers and other members of the audience. Registration fee includes continental breakfast and lunch.
| Event | Invention to Venture Workshop |
|---|---|
| Date | Saturday, February 28, 2004 |
| Time | 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. |
| Place | Fuller Labs, Perreault Hall |
| Host | The Collaborative for Entrepreneurship & Innovation |
| Cost | $50 |
| Reduced Cost | Enrolled students with current school ID will receive a $35 mailed rebate for attending |
| Register at | http://www.invention2venture.org |
| Register by | Registration Required by Wednesday Feb. 25! |
| Agenda | |
|---|---|
| 8:30 a.m. | Continental breakfast and registration |
| 9 a.m. | Welcome by Mac Banks Department Head, Department of Management Director, Collaborative for Entrepreneurship & Innovation |
| 9:15 a.m. | About the National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance with Phil Weilerstein, Director |
| 9:20 a.m. | Introduction to Entrepreneurship in the Region with Bill Lane, Managing Editor of Boston Business Journal |
| 9:45 | Is Technology Entrepreneurship for You? by Mitchell Sanders, Ph.D., WPI '88, '92, BBI & BE Founder and President of ECI Biotech, Expressive Constructs, Inc. |
| 10:15 a.m. | Break |
| 10:30 a.m. | Idea Validation and Opportunity Assessment with Grayhead Associates |
| 11 a.m. | Sales and Marketing for Early Stage Tech Companies Tom Loper, Post Road Ventures |
| 12 noon | Building the Team(s)-Finding the Right "Friends" Dr. Peter L. Levin, President and CEO DAFCA, Inc. |
| 12:30 p.m. | Lunch & Networking |
| 1:45 p.m. | Intellectual Property and Licensing David J. Thibodeau, Esq., WPI '78 EE, Partner, Hamilton Brook Smith & Reynolds, P.C. |
| 2:30 p.m. | How to Leverage your Business Plan: Pitches and Planning Carrie McIndoe, President, Strategic Capital Resources, Inc. |
| 3:30 p.m. | Break |
| 3:45 p.m. | Finding the Money Tripp Peake, Managing Partner, Worcester Capital Partners |
| 4:45 p.m. | Ending Remarks Mac Banks |
| 5 p.m. | Adjourn |
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