venture well

Opportunities for Students

Submitted by dave on Tue, 05/11/2010 - 13:23

Welcome!

NCIIA provides the funding, training, support and resources you need to advance your idea or venture, no matter the stage of development you're at.

Where are you?

WORKSHOPS

Invention to Venture workshop

Do you have what it takes to be an entrepreneur? Invention to Venture (I2V) is a one-day workshop on the basics of technology entrepreneurship, with presentations by successful entrepreneurs in your area. Fast-paced and fun. Learn more at invention2venture.org.

Get involved: Want to attend an I2V? Check the events listing to the left. Host an I2V! Contact us for details.

Research to Innovation (R2I) workshop

Translate your research into innovations. Research to Innovation is a suite of workshops designed to help university innovators translate their research into marketable innovations. Learn more

Get involved: Bring R2I to your institution! Contact us for details.

Advanced Invention to Venture workshop

Accelerate your venture. If you’re serious about moving your venture forward, Advanced Invention to Venture (AI2V) is for you. You’ll spend four days receiving instruction, doing exercises, practicing pitching and interacting with qualified coaches to develop and articulate a strategic plan for your venture. Learn more here.

Get involved: Want to attend an AI2V? Check the events listing to the left.Host an AI2V! Contact us for details!

VentureLab workshop

NCIIA's latest venture accelerator!

VentureLab is a highly experiential and immersive program developed and designed to enhance the success of your business idea: evolve your business strategy, sales channels and marketing and better understand the financial mechanics of your venture.

You'll get a plan and a set of tools that will help you grow your business for years to come.

Get involved: Contact us for details about VentureLab.

More about our first VentureLab, held in Boston in April 2010.

FUNDING

E-Team grants

Move your technology idea or venture towards commercialization with this early stage funding. Awards are up to $20,000; deadlines in May and December.

Get involved: Learn more!

BMEidea competition

Teams of US-based biomedical engineering student are judged on a complete commercialization strategy - design, product innovation, market need, regulatory pathway, sales strategy, and economic issues. First prize $10,000. Deadline in April.

BMEStart competition

Teams of US-based undergraduate biomedical and bioengineering students are judged on design and potential for commercialization. First prize $10,000. Deadline in May.

MENTORING AND ADVICE

Venture Well

Take it to the next level. Venture Well provides venture development and seed investment to university start-ups that will change the world. We provide advice and funding to ventures that offer scalable, market-oriented solutions to health and environmental problems. Learn more.

GET STARTED!

James Barlow Humera Fasihuddin

Patricia Boynton Mary Secor

News

Recently Funded E-Teams

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Move your venture forward with these resources:

Publications for Students

Getting Started as an Entrepreneur: A Guide for Students
The Entreclub Handbook: An Operating Manual for Student Entrepreneurship Clubs
Intellectual Property Primer

Companies Launched:

NCIIA grantees and award winners have launched more than 75 companies. Check these here

Facts:

NCIIA has funded 347 student entrepreneurship teams that have resulted in:

75 new businesses
380 new jobs
38 patents

These businesses have leveraged more than $102 million in additional funding.

Bootcamp AGENDA

Submitted by patricia on Thu, 01/14/2010 - 09:49

Venture Lab AGENDA

PART 1
Friday, April 9   2:30 pm – 7:00 pm
•    Registration
•    Introductions & program overview
•    Blocks and barriers to performance
•    The Human operating system
•    Overnight challenge

Saturday, April 10 Noon – 9:00 pm
•    Challenge presentations and debrief
•    Markets & customers
•    Strategy mapping

Sunday, April 11   9:00 am – 3:00 pm
•    Leveraging the network
•    Initial market research
•    Sales and pitching
•    Action plan
•    Wrap-up

PART 2
Friday, April 23   3:00 pm – 9:00 pm
•    Team presentations and feedback
•    Identification of challenges and venture needs
•    Strategy mapping and inter-team networking

Saturday, April 24   9:00 am – 9:00 pm
•    Team requirements and dynamics
•    Sales planning
•    Market research
•    Financial and revenue models

Sunday, April 25   9:00 am - 5:00 pm
•    Operationalizing the plan
•    Reclaiming the executive summary
•    Pitch practice
•    Final pitches
•    Wrap-up

Local to Boston? Accelerate your venture with this unique program!

Submitted by dave on Tue, 11/17/2009 - 16:07

Venture Well New England is about to launch!

Are you doing research that you know can solve real world problems? Not sure how to translate your research into innovations that can be commercialized? Got a class project you want to take to the next level?

We are seeking good research ideas and great people who want to commercialize them!

To register your interest in attending, visit www.venturewell.org and join the email list.

NCIIA has partnered with Microsoft New England Research and Development to create a venture development training series for New England-based student technology entrepreneurs. The program will be based at Microsoft's NERD facility in Kendall Square, Boston.

E'Ship bootcamp - Invention to Venture: February 2010

Training - Lens of the Market: Spring 2010

Training - Advanced Invention to Venture: Spring 2010

Strategy development - Venture Well: Spring 2010

More information coming soon. For now, visit www.venturewell.org and register yor interest in accelerating your venture.

Venture Well features in Huffington Post article

Submitted by dave on Tue, 11/10/2009 - 13:37

Seeking start-up funds? The Huffington Post lists sources of start-up capital for social entrepreneurs, including NCIIA's Venture Well. Read more....

Student engagement key to reinventing business education - from Nextbillion.net

Submitted by dave on Fri, 10/09/2009 - 09:46

In a story about reimagining business education, nextbillion.net's Francisco Noguera descibes how business education has to evolve 'if it is to keep up with growing demand from prospective students who are in the business of shaping the world, not fitting into it as it is.' He goes on to cite NCIIA's Sustainable Vision grants and Venture Well investment programs as providing for student-led education and innovation. Take a look...

Join us for Venture Well Forum 2010

Date: Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Time: 9 am - 3:30 pm
Location: San Francisco, CA

What is the Venture Well Forum? It's an opportunity for specially chosen venture teams to present their businesses and engage with advisors and investors in discussions both in small groups and within the forum. Want to attend the Venture Well Forum? Register here. Want to be part of the 2010 cohort? Apply today!
Venture Well Forum Agenda
8:30		Registration and check in
9:00		Welcome Phil Weilerstein, NCIIA Executive Director Joseph Steig, NCIIA Manager of Venture Development
9:15		Quick presentations by 2010 Venture Well Cohort (2 minutes each) to give Forum participants an overview of each business venture
9:45		Panel Discussion #1
10:45		Break
11:00		Panel Discussion #2
11:45		Panel Discussion #3
12:45		Lunch and Breakout Sessions: 10 minute presentations by Cohort to topic-area experts, with 20 minutes Q & A and feedback. Forum audience members may attend any session.
2:30		Panel Discussion #4
3:15		Closing and thank you Joseph Steig

Speaker and Panelist Bios
Phil Weilerstein, Executive Director, NCIIA Phil began his career as an entrepreneur as a student at the University of Massachusetts. He and a team including his advisor launched a start-up biotech company which ultimately went public. This experience, coupled with a lifelong passion for entrepreneurship, led to his work with the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance. Phil’s tenure at the NCIIA is marked by his skill for network-building and expert leverage of resources. He has a special talent for seeking out gifted educators and other important contributors and putting them to work for the betterment of invention, innovation, and entrepreneurship education in the U.S. and worldwide. As an entrepreneur in a not-for-profit organization, he has grown the NCIIA from a grassroots group of enthusiastic faculty to a nationally known and in-demand knowledge base and resource center. Phil also serves as the Chair of the Entrepreneurship Division of the American Society of Engineering Education.
Joseph Steig, Manager of Venture Development, NCIIA Joseph leads the Venture Well program for the NCIIA. He has twenty years experience as an advisor and CFO to entrepreneurial companies and non-profits. He also advises Long River Ventures, a regional venture capital firm, in the role of consulting CFO. He grew up in Vancouver, Canada and graduated with a BA from Hampshire College.

Husk Power wins $250K at DFJ business plan competition

Submitted by dave on Wed, 07/01/2009 - 14:09

$250,000 will go a long way for Husk Power Systems.

The 2008/09 Venture Well cohort member beat 15 finalists from around the world to win the DFJ and Cisco Global Business Plan Competition on Tuesday, June 30.

Husk Power develops miniature power-plants the cost-effectivley convert rice husks into electricity, serving rural Indian villages. The team will receive a $250,000 investment from DFJ and Cisco to help take the company to the next stage. The presenting members of the Husk Power Systems team were University of Virginia, Darden School of Business 2009 graduates Chip Ransler and Manoj Sinha. The team started their company in India in 2007.

NCIIA program Venture Well provides venture development and seed investment to start-ups that will change the world.

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