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Start-up boot camp webinar series offers virtual crash course for researchers, TTO staff

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Marie Powers

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Technology Transfer Tactics’ Distance Learning Division has just announced a six-week webinar series, Start-Up Boot Camp for University TTO Professionals and Inventors. This convenient format allows you cost-effectively educate both tech transfer staff and faculty innovators on the critical issues and success factors in forming and growing an academic spinout. 90-minute sessions will be held every Thursday from June 3rd through July 8th, featuring a faculty panel of high-level academic start-up experts. From early decision-making to exit strategies and each milestone along the way, this unique series is carefully crafted to provide the detailed guidance and advice neede to take start-ups beyond survival — to rapid growth, and ultimately to a liquidity event.

Faculty include Gerard Eldering, founder and president of InnovateTech Ventures; Brian Cummings, executive director of the Technology Commercialization Office and VP for technology ventures at the University of Utah; Jack Brittain, the University of Utah’s vice president of Technology Venture Development; Jim Chung, director of the Office of Entrepreneurship at George Washington University; Kef Kasdin, general partner with Battelle Ventures and Innovation Valley Partners; Paul E. Rauch, PhD, founder of Evan Law Group LLC; and Charles Cella, patent attorney and co-founder of GTC.

Attendees can select individual sessions as well as the entire series at a discounted rate, and series participants also receive the Start-Up Strategies book from Volume 2 of the Tech Transfer Library, plus the entire recorded webinar to share with staff and faculty who can’t attend the live sessions. CLICK HERE for complete details.

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