By: Wills Hapworth Executive Director at Thought into Action Entrepreneurship Institute at Colgate University On April 10th we will celebrate our fourth annual Entrepreneurs Weekend at Colgate University. We have been uniquely fortunate to attract world-class entrepreneurs to campus
By: Maureen Newman, UVC Biomedical Engineering Community Connector With a strong history in investigational new drug (IND) enabling processes, Lee Henderson, PhD, President/CEO/Chairman/Founder of Vybion, is no stranger to the world of drug discovery and the formality of clinical trials.
By: Renato Smith, Esq. When negotiating joint development and license collaborations, startups tend to focus on the financial terms, as they should. But the legal terms can be critical. For agreements involving co-owned patents, there’s an important clause to include.
This post is by Devin Daly, Founder and CEO of Spincar, a 2013 graduate of StartFast Venture Accelerator. Accelerators present a complex opportunity for startup founders. It’s easy to pin the equity deal as weak and devalue the intangibles. When a
By: Lorenzo Agnes A look of surprise, quickly followed by a sheepishly smiling attempt at showing understanding (often with head rapidly bobbing up and down) is a fairly typical response at my reply, “I’m our company culturalist,” to people asking
By: Emily O’Neill In June of 2014, I filed with my town office in New Hampshire to run for state representative. With a paltry stipend of 100 dollars per session, and a State House composed of nearly as many seats
By: Maureen Newman, UVC Biomedical Engineering Community Connector Hiding within every university is a treasure trove of technologies that may hold vast market potential as solutions to vital needs or problems. These technologies are products of billions of dollars of
By: Maureen Newman, UVC Biomedical Engineering Community Connector Its your first startup and you get a hint of attention from your first VC. So you hire an attorney and wrote a full-blown Private Placement Memorandum, only to end the day without any funding.
By Joe Cunningham, Community Connector at UVC So you’ve got this great idea; or, you’ve already acted on it and are staying up late at night, penning the business plan, talking to people about investing and where to start. Chances
By: Tyler Schrodt, CEO of EGF The Electronic Gaming Federation (EGF) is a Rochester based company, founded to create competitive video gaming (also known as electronic sports or “eSports”) leagues for both colleges and individual gamers all over the
