[bioundgrd] Fwd: March 6 BMES Lecture - Essentials of a Successful Biotech Startup

[Janice Chang]

>Ever wanted to know to how to start your own company?  Want to know 
>the pitfalls before you begin?
>Come on March 8 to hear Alain Hanover, Senior Managing Director and 
>CEO of Navigator Technology Ventures talk about his experiences and 
>hear his advice on what to do and not to do when beginning your own 
>biotech company.
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>As always, cookies, coffee and soda will be provided before the lecture.
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>March 8, 2006 (Wednesday).
>Lecture at 7:00 pm.
>Refreshments at 6:30 pm.
>Room 66-110.
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>Essentials of a Successful Biotech Startup
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>Alain Hanover
>Senior Managing Director and CEO
>Navigator Technology Ventures
>Cambridge, MA
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>About the Lecture:
>Navigator Technology Ventures is an early-stage venture fund that 
>specializes in bringing electronics-based technologies to market, 
>from Technical Software to Medical Devices.  One third of its 
>portfolio are Biotech companies.  For these investments, NTV seeks 
>out companies that will best mitigate the 7 major risks they face: 
>people risk, market risk, development risk, financial risk, 
>regulatory risk, reimbursement risk, and acceptance risk.  Mr. 
>Hanover will discuss these issues and elaborate on how some 
>start-ups address these various risk factors in order to make 
>themselves more attractive to investors and increase their chance of 
>success.
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>About the Speaker:
>Prior to becoming a Venture Capitalist, Hanover was co-Founder, 
>President and CEO of InCert Software Corporation between 1997 and 
>2000. He raised $9M in venture funding for InCert, and was 
>responsible for its strategic direction and the launching of 2 
>products. Incert was sold to Veritas. Before joining InCert, Hanover 
>was founder, CEO, President and Chairman of ViewLogic, a leading 
>electronic design automation software company from 1984 to 1997. 
>Hanover led ViewLogic from its inception to sales of more than $150M 
>and 700 employees, prior to its sale to Synopsys in 1997.  He raised 
>$16.5M in venture capital and took it public in 1991.  In 1993, he 
>was named Entrepreneur of the Year.  Prior to Viewlogic, Hanover 
>held senior executive and engineering positions at Digital Equipment 
>Corporation, Dymo, Xylogics and MIT Lincoln Laboratory.
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>co-sponsored by the IEEE EMBS, Boston Chapter.
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>Suzette Clinton
>Administrative Assistant II
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>Biological Engineering Division (BE)
>Academic Office
>MIT ; building 56-651
>77 Massachusetts Avenue
>Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
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>(617) 452-2465
>FAX:  (617) 258-8676
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