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"Creating Venture-Backable University Start-Ups"

Matt Blanton, STARTech Early Ventures and Leon Sandler, MIT Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation are two of the speakers for the session on “venture backable” university start-up companies at the 2006 University Start-Ups: National Showcase and Conference, October 22-25, Washington DC.

Sharing their views on ways for universities and venture capital investors to work together, they discuss the importance of entrepreneurial university start-up companies, and the major issues, challenges and investment payoffs of helping them become “venture-backable”.

Speakers

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Matt Blanton
Chief Executive Officer
STARTech Early Ventures
Richardson, TX
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Leon Sandler
Executive Director
Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation
MIT School of Engineering
Cambridge, MA

Full Discussion: http://www.cfi-institute.org/AudioBlog/VC_Backable_University_Startups.html

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