Technology Entrepreneurship Night with SAGE
Friday, April 10, 2009
Event registration: 5:15 p.m. in the SMG Atrium
Panel discussion: 6-7:30pm
Dinner: 8:00pm
Friday April 10th is Technology Entrepreneur Night 2009, another exciting Boston University entrepreneur event, hosted by the Institute for Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialization (ITEC) and the Student Association of Graduate Engineers (SAGE). Join venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, students, and faculty for an evening of dinner, networking, and panel discussions covering contemporary issues impacting both new and experienced entrepreneurs.

The topics for this year’s event include panels on energy, information technology, optical technologies, and starting your own company. Each panel consists of 3-4 experts and a moderator who will discuss such issues as the renewable energy landscape, how advances in IT impact the business models for start-ups, what new opportunities optics present in the 21st century, and tips for new entrepreneurs.

$50K Business Plan Competition
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
5:30 - 9 p.m.
School of Management, 4th Floor
Watch the finalists present their business plans which they have been refining for several months with the support of experts and mentors. Network, snack, and learn who the judges pick to win the competition.

Entrepreneurial Finance Boot Camp
Friday, February 6, 2009
Learn basic accounting and finance terms and how to understand the numbers needed to run your business. The two sessions present identical information. There are two pre-assignments, which, while not required, increase the value you get from the Boot Camp. The assignments can be found on smgtools under the joinable site “ITEC Bootcamps." This event is open only to the Boston University community.

Student Business Plan Boot Camp
Saturday, November 1, 2008
An intense, one-day seminar on how to develop an investment-grade business plan. There is a $10 fee to cover the cost of lunch during
Boot Camp, payable in the ITEC office, Room 571. This event is open only to Boston University students. .

$1K Business Concept Competition
Friday, October 24, 2008
Do you have an idea for a new venture? This is an opportunity for students to test their business concepts at a very early stage. No business plans are required. The application is due to ITEC on Oct 10. This event is open only to the Boston University community.

Real Estate Series
Friday, October 14, 2008
5:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
BU School of Management 4th Floor
Speakers:
Patrick Cavanagh, Senior Vice President, CB Richard Ellis
Patrick S. Boyle, Senior Vice President and Director, Bernstein Global Wealth Management
Moderator:
Rajiv Laroia, Principal, Laroia Realty, Inc.
TIE-Boston presents: Direct Ownership of Properties Vs. Indirect Ownership Through REITS: What Are The Drivers of Risk And Returns For Each Form of Ownership?

2008 ForSE: Forum for Social Entrepreneurs
Friday, October 10, 2008
9:00 a.m. - 5 p.m.
BU School of Management
Executive Leadership Center

Around the world, the citizen sector is growing dramatically. As these social ventures grow - whether working to improve basic education for inner city kids, or to fight disease in the developing world - they face daunting organizational challenges. A new breed of social entrepreneur has stepped up to overcome these challenges. Dedicated to improving the social status quo, these change agents bring a fresh set of skills that combine business acumen, innovative field work and operational excellence to build large scale sustainable organizations.

No place better nurtures this new breed of social entrepreneur than Boston, which is home to nearly a fifth of the Fast Company Social Capitalist awardees as well as dozens of pioneering social enterprise investors.

The Forum for Social Entrepreneurs (ForSE) brings these social innovators together with leading business professionals, investors/donors, government officials, academics and students to facilitate the sharing of new technology and business ideas and hard-earned management learnings, and foster informed discussion and action on new social venture concepts.

ITEC is a sponsor of this event.

ITEC Open House
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
5:30 - 7 p.m.
4th Floor
Think you’d like to start a business? Not sure if entrepreneurship is right for you? Come meet the professors who teach entrepreneurship, learn about our events and programs, network with other students, and enjoy some snacks.

Who's to Blame? Bayh-Dole, Universities, & the Declining Productivity of Pharmaceutical R&D

Thursday, May 29, 2008
SMG 220, 2:30-4:30 p.m.

The Boston University Special Seminar Series on Alternative Models for Technology Translation presents Iain Cockburn, Professor of Finance and Economics at the BU School of Management. Professor Cockburn will explore the relationship between university research, drug discovery, the creation of intellectual property, the obligations and implications of tech transfer under Bayh-Dole, and the impact on the productivity of new drug development by the pharmaceutical industry.

Boston Real Estate: Development for the 21st Century
Wednesday, December 5, 5:30-8:30pm, 2007
Join us for the launch of a new TiE Boston interest group in Real Estate with a talk by John Hynes, III. John has been a leader in the Greater Boston commercial real estate community for nearly 20 years. The city convention center bears his family name.

Hynes opened the Boston office for Gale International in January, 1999 and has since been a driving force in the company's aggressive expansion both domestically and in Asia. In 2004, Hynes' orchestrated the sale of the One Lincoln office tower in Boston's Financial District for $705 million, a record price per square foot and the most valuable commercial real estate deal in the history of Boston. On the international front, Hynes in 2001 successfully negotiated the joint venture agreement with POSCO E&C and the City of Incheon, South Korea, for the $25 billion New Songdo City project.

Prior to joining Gale International, Hynes participated in more than three hundred leasing and sales transactions in the Boston market totaling over six million square feet and developed three office projects totaling two million square feet with an aggregate value in excess of one billion dollars. There will be networking before and after the keynote speech.

Speed Networking Night
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Students and alumni with business ideas can meet others interested in joining or beginning a business team. Jessie Collins, Brown Rudnick Berlack Israels, LLP, will speak about the importance of teams in building businesses. Paul Horn, Paul Horn and Associates, will discuss networking skills. After the talks, each attendee will have 15 seconds to tell the audience who they are and who they are looking to network with. Networking will follow these pitches.

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