TCA Mentorship Fall 2010 Phase 1 [Nov 01, 2010]
WHAT: Tech Coast Angels (TCA) Mentorship Program
WHEN: Phase 1 / Application deadline – Monday, Nov 1, Midnight
HOW: Apply now
A 5-minute presentation is required on Friday Nov 5, 2010.
The Tech Coast Angels (TCA) is currently accepting applications for their mentorship program through the UCLA Office of Intellectual Property (OIP).
TCA members are investors who are experienced in building start-up companies and who want to lend their assistance to the UCLA community. In the past 10 years TCA has funded more than 130 startups with $100 million of their own money and attracted venture capital funding that approaches a billion dollars. This level of activity makes TCA the largest angel group in the country.
A TCA mentorship will consist of up to 3 mentoring sessions where you will receive personalized counseling for your technology from an expert who is knowledgeable in your field. We invite you to take advantage of invaluable opportunity. Steps have been taken to protect your intellectual property through the application process.
This program is presented by the Technical Entrepreneurial Community (TEC), Society for Post-Doctoral Scholars (SoPS), and the Entrepreneur Association (EA).
TEC is recruiting [Oct 10, 2010]
The Technical Entrepreneurial Community is seeking to expand their team and to fill several leadership positions.
We are looking for enthusiastic engineering graduate students to shape the future of entrepreneurship at UCLA Engineering. This is a wonderful opportunity to help others achieve their dreams while building a strong network. We are currently looking to fill a couple board positions and a few committee positions.
Deadline for applications is midnight Sunday 10/10.
Learn more about this opportunity and apply.
TCA Screening Session [Oct 08, 2010]
Where: UCLA Anderson School
When: Friday, Oct 8, 2010 (9:30am – 12:30pm)
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Technology Commercialization Course
Offered by the UCLA Anderson School of Management and taught by Prof. Al Osborne.
In a one sentence description, teams of students from several UCLA graduate schools are going to evaluate the commercial viability of technology invented here by UCLA researchers. It’s going to be offered on Thursdays from 5pm-8pm in room B301 and will open to graduate students from the business, law, medical, engineering, and life science schools. Enrollment is going to be at the discretion of the professor and will be limited to 15 teams of three to four people.
Please contact al.osborne@anderson.ucla.edu, jason.jolly.2011@anderson.ucla.edu, or arash.safaei.2012@anderson.ucla.edu if you have any questions.
A major part of the seminar is an experiential component in which student teams work with actual IP and make commercial assessments through prototyping, market studies, customer evaluation, and competitive analyses. This phase will often require field work and due diligence (often a back and forth with researchers and the IP) in the clinical testing of the business concepts as developed, and modified to the demands of the marketplace. Later sessions will include valuation and funding strategies, in addition to an assessment for potential inclusion in the Technology Innovation Partners Program (TIPP) and the UCLA Incubator. The UCLA Office of Intellectual Property (OIP) and selected experts from the scientific, legal, and venture investing communities will participate in the course as guest lecturers and/or advisors to student teams as deemed appropriate.