COURSE DESCRIPTION
This non-credit course is designed to introduce members of the research community to issues relating to starting and growing a technology based business. It is targeted at graduate students, post-docs, faculty, technicians and others active in research in a scientific or engineering discipline, who have an interest in creating a company to exploit the results of their research.
The series targets researchers in biological and physical sciences and engineering. It assumes no prior knowledge of business and offers lectures on a diverse range of topics including finding financing, defining markets, hiring teams and protecting intellectual property. You can view the course outline below.
DESIGNED FOR
- Graduate Students
- Post-Doctorate Candidates
- Faculty
- Technicians
- Other scientific or engineering researchers who have an interest in creating a company to exploit the results of their research
RECENTLY ON THE CIBC PRESENTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP 101 VIDEO CHANNEL
Building a Pitch
Speaker: Mike Polonsky
"Hey buddy, can you spare a $100 million?"
or
How to convince successful financiers to give you millions of dollars in a project doomed to fail!
Cast: MaRS Discovery District
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FORMAT
Lectures are 1 hour in length plus questions. Refreshments and a networking session for program students and speakers will follow.
For students not able to attend the lecture, sessions will be recorded and posted on Vimeo after the event. A blog will be posted after each class, summarizing the event and posting the links to the presentation recording. Students can post questions for each other or the speaker in the blog comments.
LOCATION
MaRS Collaboration Centre
101 College St.
Lower Level Auditorium
TIMES
5:30pm-6:30pm on Wednesdays.
See schedule below.
REGISTRATION
Registration for the 2008/09 season is now closed as the course is complete.
You can still view all of the lecture videos (
Vimeo) and/or course
blogs. You can look up all of the downloads and resources for each lecture by clicking on the lecture below.
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CONTACT
For more information on course content contact MaRS at events@marsdd.com.
For technical problems, or questions about the registration system, please contact Cathy Bogaart at marsportal@marsdd.com.
SPONSORS
Generously supported by:
Additional support from:
J.P. Bickell Foundation
PAST EVENTS
- April 29, 2009
CIBC Presents Entrepreneurship 101 Up-Start Competition: Final presentations - April 15, 2009
CIBC presents Entrepreneurship 101 - Building a Pitch - April 8, 2009
CIBC presents Entrepreneurship 101 - Lived It Lecture: Creating and Developing a Sustainable Business - April 1, 2009
CIBC presents Entrepreneurship 101 - Human Capital: Building high performance teams for your start-up's success - March 25, 2009
CIBC presents Entrepreneurship 101 - The Role of Boards, Advisory Panels and Service Providers - March 18, 2009
CIBC presents Entrepreneurship 101 - Human Resources Management - March 11, 2009
CIBC presents Entrepreneurship 101 - Lived It Lecture: Building a better deal - March 4, 2009
CIBC presents Entrepreneurship 101 - How to Get Money From a VC - February 25, 2009
CIBC presents Entrepreneurship 101 - What VCs Want (and why they call it 'Vulture Capital') - February 18, 2009
CIBC presents Entrepreneurship 101 - Lived It Lecture: Do you really want to be an Entrepreneur? - February 13, 2009
CIBC Presents Entrepreneurship 101 Up-Start Competition: Executive summaries due - February 11, 2009
CIBC Presents Entrepreneurship 101: Essential Communication Tools for Entrepreneurs - February 4, 2009
CIBC presents Entrepreneurship 101 - Budgeting - January 28, 2009
CIBC presents Entrepreneurship 101 - IP Management - January 21, 2009
CIBC presents Entrepreneurship 101 - Basics of Marketing (2) - January 14, 2009
CIBC presents Entrepreneurship 101 - Basics of Marketing (1) - January 7, 2009
CIBC presents Entrepreneurship 101 - Lived It Lecture: Collaboration in the Meltdown - December 10, 2008
CIBC presents Entrepreneurship 101 - Managing Your Career: The art of selling yourself - December 3, 2008
CIBC presents Entrepreneurship 101 - Lived It Lecture - November 26, 2008
CIBC presents Entrepreneurship 101 - Product Development - November 19, 2008
CIBC presents Entrepreneurship 101 - Lived It Lecture - November 12, 2008
CIBC presents Entrepreneurship 101 - Building a Business Model - November 5, 2008
CIBC presents Entrepreneurship 101 - Negotiations - October 29, 2008
CIBC presents Entrepreneurship 101 - Basic Nuts and Bolts of Starting a Company - October 22, 2008
CIBC presents Entrepreneurship 101 - Intro to Tech Companies/Business Creation - October 15, 2008
CIBC presents Entrepreneurship 101 - Success Story with Sean O'Dea - October 8, 2008
CIBC presents Entrepreneurship 101 - Different Types of Entrepreneurship: An Outline - October 1, 2008
CIBC presents Entrepreneurship 101 - Opening Event: Course Introduction - May 9, 2008
CIBC presents Entrepreneurship 101 - Up-Start Pitch Competition Finals 2007/08 - April 30, 2008
CIBC presents Entrepreneurship 101 - Science and business do mix with Peter Hofstra - April 23, 2008
CIBC presents Entrepreneurship 101 - Building a Pitch - April 16, 2008
CIBC presents Entrepreneurship 101 - Science and business do mix with Dr. Jeffrey Coull - April 9, 2008
CIBC presents Entrepreneurship 101 - The Role of Boards, Advisory Panels, Service Providers - April 2, 2008
CIBC presents Entrepreneurship 101 - Building Technology Teams, Building Marketing / Sales Teams - March 26, 2008
CIBC presents Entrepreneurship 101 - Human Resources Management - March 19, 2008
CIBC presents Entrepreneurship 101 - Science and business do mix *CANCELLED* - March 12, 2008
CIBC presents Entrepreneurship 101 - How Not to Pitch to an Investor - March 5, 2008
CIBC presents Entrepreneurship 101 - Term Sheets: Terms of Investments - February 27, 2008
Entrepreneurship 101 - Up-Start Mentoring Session - February 20, 2008
CIBC presents Entrepreneurship 101 - Written Tools for Building a Business - February 15, 2008
CIBC presents Entrepreneurship 101 - Up-Start Competition Stage 1 Deadline - February 13, 2008
CIBC presents Entrepreneurship 101 - Budgeting: If you fail to plan, will your plan fail? - February 6, 2008
CIBC presents Entrepreneurship 101 - IP Management - January 30, 2008
CIBC presents Entrepreneurship 101 - Science and business do mix: The Scientific Insights® story - January 23, 2008
CIBC presents Entrepreneurship 101 - Managing Your Career - January 16, 2008
CIBC presents Entrepreneurship 101 - The Market Research Business - January 9, 2008
CIBC presents Entrepreneurship 101 - Trying to Connect Innovation to Income? Start with Marketing - December 19, 2007
Entrepreneurship 101 - Building a Business Model - December 12, 2007
Entrepreneurship 101 - Mechanics of Starting a Business - December 6, 2007
Entrepreneurship 101 - Negotiations - November 28, 2007
Entrepreneurship 101 - Science and business do mix - November 21, 2007
Entrepreneurship 101 - Life and Business Lessons : Get Smarter - November 15, 2007
Entrepreneurship 101 - Different Types of Entrepreneurship - November 7, 2007
Entrepreneurship 101 - Introduction to Technology Commercialization - October 31, 2007
Entrepreneurship 101 - Opening Event: Course Introduction - April 17, 2007
Entrepreneurship 101 - Science and Business Do Mix: Scientific Insights - April 10, 2007
Entrepreneurship 101 - Building a Pitch - April 3, 2007
Entrepreneurship 101 - Building Technology Teams/Building Marketing/Sales Teams - March 27, 2007
Entrepreneurship 101 - The Role of Boards, Advisory Panels, Service Providers - March 20, 2007
Entrepreneurship 101 - Human Resource Management for the Entrepreneur - March 13, 2007
Entrepreneurship 101 - Science and Business Do Mix: A Success Story - March 6, 2007
Entrepreneurship 101 - Budgeting - February 27, 2007
Entrepreneurship 101 - What Do Investors Look For? - February 13, 2007
Entrepreneurship 101 - Written Tools for Building a Business - February 6, 2007
Entrepreneurship 101 - Science and Business Do Mix: The Toronto Research Chemicals Story - January 30, 2007
Entrepreneurship 101 - Capitalizing on Your Intellectual Capital - January 23, 2007
Entrepreneurship 101 - Making Critical Career Decisions - January 16, 2007
Entrepreneurship 101 - Basics of Marketing II - January 9, 2007
Entrepreneurship 101: Basics of Marketing I - November 28, 2006
Entrepreneurship 101 - Science and business do mix: The Interface Biologics story - November 21, 2006
Entrepreneurship 101 - Building a Business Model - November 7, 2006
Entrepreneurship 101 - Negotiations - November 1, 2006
Entrepreneurship 101 - Different Types of Entrepreneurship - October 17, 2006
Entrepreneurship 101 - An Introduction to Commercializing University / Hospital Technologies - October 10, 2006
Entrepreneurship 101 - Science and Business Do Mix: The Rimon Therapeutics Success Story - February 14, 2006
Up-Start Pitch Competition 2006
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