An 11-week “Brown Bag” lunch series, sponsored by the Severino Center for Technological Entrepreneurship, offers Rensselaer students a glimpse of the life of an entrepreneur—from developing business plans to protecting intellectual property, from negotiation to venture capital seed money and early stage valuation.
Bela Musits ’79, Managing Director of High Peaks Venture Partners, discusses Venture Capital funding in “The World of a VC.”
Brown Bag Lunch Series Schedule, Spring 2010
| Feb. 10 | Scott DeMarco | Valuation of Early Stage Companies |
| Feb. 17 | Dick Frederick | Got a BIG Idea? |
| Feb. 24 | Tech Valley Business Plan Competition Workshop | |
| Mar. 3 | Khaled Abul-Hassen | IP-What is it and How to Manage It? |
| Mar. 17 | Dick Frederick | Got a BIG Idea? |
| Mar. 24 | Bela Musits ’79 | The World of a VC |
| Mar. 31 | Don McMurtry ’86 | Verbal Jujitsu: Preparing for Client Meetings |
| Apr. 7 | Jean Howard | Summer Opportunities: Student Sandbox |
| Apr. 14 | Pinki Srivastava PhD’09 | Innovation and Careers in Health Care |
| Apr. 21 | Dick Frederick | Seed Capital and Early Funding |
| Apr. 28 | Silke Muhlmeier | Marketing for Startups—Opportunities and the EU |
To attend upcoming sessions or for more information contact SCTE@rpi.edu.
More information on the SCTE Entrepreneurs in Residence.
The Paul J. '69 and Kathleen M. Severino Center for Technological Entrepreneurship (SCTE), established in 1988, helps foster new generations of entrepreneurs through outreach programs, education and research. Centered in Rensselaer’s Lally School of Management & Technology, The Severino Center lies at the core of Lally’s commitment to Entrepreneurship. The mission of the SCTE is to integrate educational and research programs by exposing every Rensselaer student to the practices and principles of entrepreneurship, to infuse the fundamentals of entrepreneurship throughout the Rensselaer curriculum, and to extend Rensselaer’s leadership and national prominence in technological entrepreneurship.