1. Welcome!

2. Select WARF Entrepreneurship & Startup Initiatives
4490 Ventures—new $30M technology-focused VC fund created in partnership with the State of Wisconsin Investment Board
Expanded Business and Law Entrepreneurship Clinic
D2P—Discovery to Product campus-wide initiative for entrepreneurship
UpStart Program for Minority and Women’s Entrepreneurship—13 week curriculum structured for small cohort; will repeat program w/ larger class size in Spring 2014
Entrepreneurons—the series to take if taking an idea to market is on your mind
Fall 2013 and Spring 2014 seminar series, a total of 12 events planned
Focus is on high technology startups
Basics made fresh for the specific concerns of new ventures in our unique environment
Local and national experts to lead presentation of key topics
Panel discussion with entrepreneurs and other advisors
Ample time for Q&A and informal networking at each event

3. Entrepreneurons Fall 2013 Program
Date
Topic
Keynote Speaker
October 3
Do you really want to start a company?
Paul Shain, president and CEO, Singlewire Software
October 15
The importance of intellectual property
Stephanie Adamany, WARF associate general counsel
October 22
Building a startup team
Brian Wiegand, serial entrepreneur
November 7
Lean startups and business plans
Ted Feierstein, partner, LeanTech Group
November 21
Structure and governance
Kevin Conroy, president and CEO, Exact Sciences
December 5
***3-5 pm
Early stage financing
Mark Reinstra, partner, Wilson, Sonsini

4. Entrepreneurons Spring 2014 Program
A similarly rich series of topics and speakers is planned
Customer acquisition and development
Startup accounting and taxes
Business plan, valuation and financial analysis
HR essentials
Unique resources for minority- and women-owned businesses
Marketing/PR/communications

5. Special thanks to . . . Laura Heisler, Director of Programming
Colin Tompkins-Bergh, Program Development Assistant
Shauna Baranczyk, Event Coordinator
Becky Balistreri, Administrative Assistant
Jim Armstrong, Interim Director of Communications
Devon Cournoyer, Communications Project Manager
For more on the Entrepreneurons series please see: warf.org/entrepreneurons
Schedule and program details, including topics and speakers
Registration for future events
Streaming media access to past events

6. Do you really want to start a company?
Paul Shain, president and CEO, Singlewire Software
Joining for our panel discussion:
Mark Cook, professor of animal sciences
W. John Kao, professor of pharmaceutical sciences
Dan Ludois, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering; co-founder C-Motive Technologies, Inc.
Laura Strong, president and COO, Quintessence Biosciences
Questions for our panel discussion may be raised during the panel session or ed in advance to:

7. Additional resources Law and Entrepreneurship Clinic
Office of Corporate Relations
School of Business Initiative for Studies in Transformational Entrepreneurship (INSITE)
UW Student Business Incubator
UW Research Park
UW Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR)
WARF
WARF Confidential -- Leigh Cagan – September 2013