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Invention to Venture Facts
 
If you are planning to change the world, one day can change your life.
 
A fast-paced day of practical information and networking opportunities that can help take your ideas to commercialization.
Seven critical-to-success sessions led by real-world entrepreneurial speakers, practitioners, and panelists
  • Is Technology Entrepreneurship for You?
• Idea Validation and Opportunity Assessment.
• Marketing and Sales for Early-Stage Companies.
• Issues in Intellectual Property Licensing.
• Building the Team.
• The Perfect Business Plan, Slide Show, & Elevator Speech.
• Finding the Money. 		   
 
View Video of the Spring 2008 Session/Speakers
 

Date:      Next Session Fall 2009 Date to be Announced.
Time:     8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Venue:  Academy Hall Auditorium, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute  
 
Presented by
 
National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance
 
 
Sponsored by
 
Rensselaer Office of Entrepreneurship
 
Lemelson Foundation
 
Kauffman Foundation
 
Co-Sponsored by
 
Center for Automation Technologies & Systems
NYSTAR
 
Who & What
Who should attend:
  • Aspiring technological entrepreneurs
  • Students, faculty, researchers, and community members.
  • Business and investor community people seeking connections to new technology opportunities.

What you will learn:
How to take ideas to commercialization and how to make valuable networking connections?
For anyone with an idea or an entrepreneurial opportunity, one day at this event could save you months of work on your own.

Your next business partner or investor may be sitting next to you !

SEATING IS LIMITED AND PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED.