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Start-ups & Mentors – what works??

May 10th, 2012

TiE Minnesota Invites you to meet five entrepreneurs from diverse sectors as they, in conjunction with moderator Graeme Thickens, share their start-up experience and the role that mentors played in their development. Hear insights about what mentoring approaches work from the coffee shop to the inaugural class of Blueprint Health in New York City!

If you are an entrepreneur, a mentor or someone that believes in the importance of start-up success,  this program is for you!
REGISTERATION and Event Details at www.minnesota.tie.org or (Direct Registration Link with More Info tab: https://www.123signup.com/register?id=svfqv.)

FEATURED ENTREPRNEURS

Arvind Raghavan: Tychon Bioscience
Dr. Arvind Raghavan has co-founded two biotech startups based on technologies discovered & developed by co-founders at the University of Minnesota. As Interim CEO of ApoGen Biotechnologies, a genetic engineering reagents company, he was instrumental in helping secure a $250,000 seed-stage investment from the U of M for prototype development. He is currently VP of Business Development at Tychon Bioscience, a nanobiotech company developing targeted diagnostics and therapeutics for breast and prostate cancer. Dr. Raghavan is a CEO-in-Residence at the University of Minnesota’s Venture Center, and the Judging Committee Chair for the Cleantech Open’s accelerator program in the Midwest. He initiated, developed and managed strategic partnerships for Signum Biosciences, a Princeton University spin-off that is developing Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease therapeutics. Dr. Raghavan holds a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology; his research experience and publications span the fields of Immunology, Cancer Biology and Genomics.

Tychon Bioscience is a University of Minnesota startup biotech that is developing a platform technology for the targeted delivery of drugs and next-generation imaging agents for various cancers. Tychon’s unique ‘nanovehicle’ technology is based on research by Dr. Carston Wagner, Endowed Chair in Medicinal Chemistry. Nanovehicles carry drugs and imaging agents to specific tumor cells, deliver their molecular payloads, and are then disassembled for easy excretion from the body. What differentiates Tychon from the crowd? Pharmaceutical development is undergoing major upheavals throughout the world. Lean and smart biotech startups that understand and implement collaborative, risk-sharing strategies, are the new paradigm for success in the highly competitive and rapidly changing field of molecular medicine.

Michael Winikoff: Needl
Needl is a Q&A platform that enables healthcare professionals to ask questions about the drugs they prescribe—within the web and mobile Apps they use every day. Needl collects and routes these questions directly to the best solvers in Pharma, whether it’s the Sales Rep or the Scientific Liaison.

 Needl captures those questions in real time and translates them into hard metrics which can be used to predict trends across healthcare. Through the Needl dashboard or API, we provide up-to‐date business intelligence about what healthcare providers want to know and the trends influencing their behavior.

Michael began his career as a technology consultant at Sudler & Hennessey, the healthcare arm of Young & Rubicam. He went on to become managing partner in two companies specializing in technology sales & training for the Advertising & Design industry before starting his own marketing and designing practice. His clients include startup and growth companies in vaccine development, security for cloud infrastructures, and biotech consulting. Michael earned his BA from Tufts University and his MA from Columbia University.

Neal Tovsen: Telemetry Web
TelemetryWeb is an online platform that creates the link between people and the things they care about. Experts predict there will be as many as 50 billion devices connected to the Internet by 2050. But the vast majority of these will not be PCs, tablets, or mobile phones. They will be industrial devices, consumer appliances, vehicles, factories, and farms. The TelemetryWeb platform enables device manufacturers to bring these kinds of connected devices to market quickly and at low cost, while providing a unique ability to use the information collected in new ways.

Neal Tovsen is an entrepreneur and experienced software architect who loves to bring innovative ideas to market. He has spent the last decade specializing in web-based, software-as-a-service technology for business applications, and his experience spans supply chain, energy, finance, and mobile industries. He is currently Founder and CEO of TelemetryWeb.
Rob Fuglie: Serial Entrepreneur
Rob Fuglie is a founder and entrepreneur focused on integrative innovation. His broad career as a generalist could conventionally be described as Business and Corporate Development. However, his lack of industry specialty and inability to state his experience in 15 seconds or less indicates his desire for the non-conventional. His experience includes: start-up, turn-around, consulting, business development, valuation, and human resources. The industries include: Internet, consumer finance, commercial construction, and corporate art. He has a Bachelor of Science from St. Cloud State University and MBA from University of St. Thomas.

For the last two years Rob has focused on new product and company development, acting as his own incubator. He currently has three projects in various stages of becoming companies. A software-as-a-service to ease family financial friction, a snack food company focused on making “allergen free cool enough to eat”, and a consumer product that is gives end users the tool necessary to fully enjoy a brilliant industrial design. Financing strategies have included full private placement memorandum, revenue share, and straight-up bootstrapping. The results to this point are two patents pending and two operating companies with revenue.

Frank Grazzini: TelemetryWeb
Frank Grazzini is co-founder of TelemetryWeb, Inc. and has been a member of TiE Minnesota for over two years. Frank spent much of his early career in global manufacturing organizations where he worked in several startup business segments, typically in financial roles. This gave him valuable business experience and a taste for entrepreneurship that eventually led to him starting an electronics recycling business in early 2010. He learned of TiE later that year, and quickly found it to be a great fit. TiE exposed him to much of what was going on in the Metro entrepreneurial community. In the months that followed, his entrepreneurial journey made a turn, included the opportunity to meet, through TiE, Neal Tovsen and the decision to join Neal in founding and building TelemetryWeb.

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Meet Minnesota’s New Federal EDA Representative

May 8th, 2012

EDAM May Event – Meet Minnesota’s New Federal EDA Representative — and — Tourism as an Economic Driver

May 10, 2012, 11:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. – Register

To better serve all our EDAM members, we have revamped Thursday’s presentation so that all three speakers, Dennis Foldenauer, Terry Mattson and Anna Tanski will make their presentations at the Duluth location.  The telecast to St. Paul and the webinar download will allow participants to submit their questions to our speakers if you are not able to be in Duluth for the live session.

Sign up for the location that works best for you — Duluth, St. Paul, or webinar!

Locations:

UMD-Campus Event:
11:30am – 1:30pm
Kirby Plaza – Room 173
Speakers will be present at this location.
**Lunch included in registration fee      

Twin Cities Event:
11:30am – 1:30pm
Ewald Conference Center
Presentation will be given via webinar.
Lunch included in registration fee

A webinar only option is also available

Cost:

Register online, or download the brochure to pay by check.

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Clean Energy Resource Teams (CERTs) – Event on Tools May 23

May 8th, 2012

Event on Tools and Opportunities for Local Governments in West Central Minnesota

Clean Energy Resource Teams (CERTs)
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
9 a.m.-12 p.m.
City Council Chambers
Appleton Civic Center
323 West Schlieman Avenue,
Appleton, MN 56208

00 Welcome & Introductions – Jeff Vetsch
9:10 Overview of Options: Demystifying the Alphabet Soup of Acronyms – Jeff Vetsch
9:25 B3 Building, Benchmarking, & Beyond –Sarah Steinman, GreenCorp, CERTs
9:35 Panel: Energy Efficiency Financing Tools for Local Governments (GESP, PBEEEP,
Performance Contracting)
Bill Klyve, Energy Management Representative, Otter Tail
10:15 Q&A/Discussion
10:25 Break and Networking
10:45 Panel: Projects (how they used financial tools, lessons learned)
John Paulson, City of Hutchinson: Energy Services Contracting from a City’s Perspective
11:05 Q&A/Discussion
11:15 Resources from Utilities
11:35 PACE: What is it and how can it help my business or city?
11:45 Q&A/Discussion
11:55 Next Steps to Move Your Project Forward – Jeff Vetsch
12:00 Adjourn

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Got a good product idea? Let’s hear it!

May 7th, 2012

It sure would be fun to see some LqP innovators there!

Do you think you have the next “As Seen on TV” Product hit?

Have you invented the next PedEgg? Lint Lizard? Sticky Buddy?

Then, now is the time to apply for a spot at the June 6, 2012 TeleBrands/Minnesota Inventors Congress Inventors Day to be held at the Hyatt Regency, in Minneapolis.

Inventors interested in having 5 minutes to pitch to TeleBrands CEO/Founder AJ Khubani and a panel of judges to consider marketing their consumer infomercial product should send an email to BigIdeas@TeleBrands.com noting “Minnesota” in the subject line.

Each application should include:
Inventor name
City, State
Cell phone number
Email
Name of product
Short description of product
Website of product (if one exists)

Please do not include attachments.

While hundreds will apply, only 25 will be selected.

Who knows? You might have the next “As Seen on TV” success story.

Selected inventors will receive notification that they have been chosen. This event is not open to the public. Walk-ins will NOT be accepted. If you are selected, you must be able to be in Minneapolis on Wednesday, June 6, 2012 from approximately 8:30am until approximately 3:00pm.
GOOD LUCK!

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