startup

Supporting Scientists as Startup Founders with Matt Krisiloff

In this week’s episode, Matt Krisiloff, CEO of Conception, a company working to turn pluripotent stem cells into viable human eggs, talks about SciFounders, which he started with partners Lucas Harrington and Alexander Schubert to help technical founders launch companies. Topics discussed include: – Why Scifounders decided to focus on technical founders – Why Matt…

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Commercializing Technology from Academia to the Marketplace with John Fraser

    In this week’s episode, John Fraser, President of Burnside Development & Associates, discusses academic technology transfer commercialization and start-up formation and financing as well as related topics such as:   – The economic impact of academic-licensed products and misconceptions – and even complete blind spots – many people have about university-based research –…

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Successful Startups with Serial Entrepreneur and VC Vinit Nijhawan

  Vinit Nijhawan is Managing Director of MassVentures, the first public venture capital fund in the U.S., funding early stage, high growth Massachusetts companies for more than 40 years. In this episode, Mark and Vinit discuss a range of topics related to innovation and entrepreneurship, including: The skills that have been central contributors to Vinit’s…

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