Would-Be Entrepreneurs Invited to ‘Boot Camp’

Published: October 30, 2009

New Haven, Conn. — Yale clinicians, faculty and students who are in the process of or thinking about launching a new venture can learn about the business, legal and practical issues facing today's technology and life science entrepreneurs at "Start-Up Boot Camp 2009" being held noon-4 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 3.

The program is being presented by Yale University and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, a firm that provides legal services to technology, life sciences and growth enterprises worldwide.

In addition to the University community, the event is open to local technology and life science entrepreneurs.

The day's sessions will be "Getting Started: Business Plans," "IP: What Matters to Investors," "Forming and Organizing the Start-Up and Founders Stock," "Working with Yale's Office of Cooperative Research," "Getting Funded," "Expectations and Timing for a Fundraising ‘Campaign,'" "Term Sheets," "Compensation and Equity Incentives," "Board Relations and Corporate Governance" and "Liquidity and Exits."

The program will be held in Rm. 110 of the Jane Ellen Hope Building, 315 Cedar St. Registration is required; to reserve a place, call the Yale Office of Cooperative Research at (203) 436-8096.

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