Webinars and Podcasts

For the last two academic years, YII has hosted a series of more than 20 webinars with experts in commercialization and podcasts with young innovators and entrepreneurs. These webinars and podcasts are streamed live and recorded for re-broadcast. University Affiliates can broadcast their webinars into classrooms and student clubs.

Upcoming Webinars and Podcasts
January 26, 7 PM - 7:30 PM EST
Podcast interview with Aaron Patzer, Founder of Mint
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February 2, 7 PM - 7:30 PM EST
Podcast interview with Poornima Vijayashanker, Femgineer, 3rd Employee at Mint.com, CEO and Founder of BizeeBee.com
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February 4, 4 PM - 5 PM EST
Webinar: Mismarketing 101: How to guarantee that your startup never receives media attention, partners or funding
Steve Lundin, Chief Hunter and Gatherer, BIGfrontier Communications Group Registration: CDN$5

February 23, 7 PM - 7:30 PM EST
Podcast interview with Will Bunker, Co-Founder, Match.com
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Podcasts (Complimentary Access)
Interviews with young entrepreneurs:

Aaron Fulkerson, Co-founder and CEO, MindTouch
Steven Fleck, Cofounder and Chief Technology Officer, ClearCount
Jamail Larkins, Founder, Ascention Aircraft and Larkins Enterprises
Christopher P. Jacobs Jr., Co-Founder and Partner, Emergent Energy Group
Susan Gregg Koger and Eric Koger, Co-founders of ModCloth
Jonathan Medved, CEO of Vringo
Aron Rosenberg, Co-founder and CTO of SightSpeed
Gauri Nanda, CEO of Nanda Home and Inventor of Clocky
David Grampa, Student Entrepreneur

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Archived Webinars

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CND$5 each
CND$25 for access to all archived webinars and future live and recorded webinars until September 1, 2010

Nick Triantos, Board Director at Sand Hill Angels and former Chief Software Architect at NVIDIA - What is Venture Capital and Who Are Angel Investors?
Monty Montague, Principal, BOLTgroup - Insights and Connections - How hunches can become ideas, and ideas become innovations
Andrea Belz, PhD, MBA, Belz Consulting, LLC - Inside the sausage factory: An introduction to product development
Laura A. Shoppe, President, Fuentek LLC - Filling Government Needs: Matching Innovation to Government Opportunities
Andrew Chung, Senior Associate, Lightspeed Venture Partners - Building Teams
Gregory Rice, Management Consultant, University of Pittsburgh Small Business Development Center - Show Me the Money, How to get your Research and Development funded through the Small Business Innovation Research Grant Program
James Smith and Shane McLean, LaBarge Weinstein - Financing the Start-up
Ian Tien, Senior Product Manager, Microsoft Corporation (Co-hosted by CIE Seattle) - Turning Inventions into Compelling Products
Wendy Kennedy, "So what? who cares? why you? (TM): The Inventors' Commercialization Toolkit" - Bring Your Idea from Lab to Life
Sean Wise, Wise Mentor Capital - Team Building Basics
Barbara M. Johnson, Partner, and Harry A. Hanson, III, Partner, Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP - Founder Equity Issues
Ashton Udall, Global Sourcing Specialists - Basics of Manufacturing Your Product Overseas
Lahav Gil, President, Kangaroo Design Inc., and Co-Founder, Humanitarian Products Group - Introduction of Industrial Design
Ebad Rahman, Bereskin & Parr - Intellectual Property
Suvashis Bhattacharya, Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner - Intellectual Property for Start-ups
Tim Berry, Business Planning Expert and Founder of Palo Alto Software - The Not So Big Business Plan
Paige Arnof-Fenn, Founder and CEO of Mavens and Moguls, Columnist for Entrepreneur Magazine - Positioning Your Way to Success: How to Leverage Market Research
Jim McClurg, President, Social Enterprise Alliance - Social Entrepreneurship
Jerr Bosche, Executive Director, Institute for Social Entrepreneurs - The Promise and the Perils of Social Entrepreneurship
Jay Shepherd, Founder of LaunchPad - Setting Up a New Company to Commercialize Your Invention