Release Date: May 26, 2015 This content is archived.
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Three University at Buffalo students are participating in a Pre-Seed Workshop for aspiring entrepreneurs interested in launching a high-tech company.
The workshop begins Wednesday, May 27, with a kickoff dinner. On May 28 and June 4, teams will work through a series of facilitated, hands-on sessions to investigate and further develop pre-seed stage companies.
“This program showcases the entrepreneurial spirit in our region, while providing a platform for high-tech industry and an essential filtering process to determine if an idea is likely to succeed,” said Sandra Small, pre-seed program chair and workforce development associate at UB’s New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences (CBLS).
The two days of programming will bring together technical, legal, business, finance and marketing experts in the community to determine the viability of new startup concepts potentially being spun out of universities, hospitals and inventors’ basements.
News media members are encouraged to attend the final pitch sessions on June 4. The event, from 1:30-3:30 p.m., will take place at CBLS, 701 Ellicott St., Buffalo.
Media interested in attending should contact Julie Molenda at juliemol@buffalo.edu.
Ideas being showcased at the workshop include:
The Pre-Seed Workshop, founded and facilitated by Mark Wilson and Judy Albers, has helped more than 200 entrepreneurs statewide decide whether they are ready to start a high-tech business.
Pre-Seed workshops also help to train the next wave of entrepreneurs, inviting undergraduate, graduate and professional students to gain real-world experience by sitting on idea teams alongside scientists and business experts.
Sponsors of the 2015 Pre-Seed Workshop include the CBLS, UB’s Office of Economic Development (OED), UB’s New York State Center of Excellence in Materials Informatics (CMI), UB’s Office of Science, Technology Transfer and Economic Outreach (STOR), Hodgson Russ LLP, New York State Science and Technology Law Center (NYSSTLC), Launch NY, New York State Division of Science, Technology and Innovation (NYSTAR) and the Western New York Innovation Hot Spot.
Julie Molenda
New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences
Tel: 716-881-7997
juliemol@buffalo.edu