2 great events for scientific Entrepreneurs NYC

Blackstone LaunchPad at NYU - Kickoff and Reception

Working on the next Snapchat, Airbnb or Dropbox?
Dreaming up startup ideas to capture fellow millenial customers?
Aspiring to launch the hottest startup in NYC?
Blackstone LaunchPad is here to help!
Join us on Tuesday, February 2nd at 6:00 PM
at the Leslie eLab to learn about the Blackstone LaunchPad at NYU.
RSVP HERE
Hear from senior leadership at NYU and Blackstone, and find out how expert coaching and mentoring can help you get started faster!
Agenda:
Welcome Speech: Paul Horn
Introduction to Entrepreneurship at NYU: Kurt Becker
What is Blackstone LaunchPad?: Brian Gavin
Coaching Startups Starting Up: Frank Rimalovski
How can you benefit from Blackstone Launchpad at NYU?: Andy Moss
Testimonials:
Preeti Raghavan - Mirror Motion
Dagny Looper - IndieLoop
Brian Shimmerlick - VengoLabs
Q&A
Refreshments will be served.
What Is it?:
Blackstone LaunchPad at NYU is a new entrepreneurship program, funded by the Blackstone Charitable Foundation, offering coaching, ideation and venture support for aspiring NYU entrepreneurs — students, researchers, staff and faculty — regardless of major, discipline, or NYU school affiliation.
Participants will have access to a network of venture coaches, providing practical skills, seasoned advice and a support system for budding entrepreneurs.

Prolific Biomedical Inventor, Serial Startup Founder and
MIT Institute Professor Robert Langer to speak
at New York University

On January 29, 2016, the NYU Entrepreneurial Institute will host Dr. Robert Langer for a fireside chat at the Silver Center, where over 200 students, researchers, faculty and staff from the NYU community will gather to hear from the most-cited engineer in history.

Dr. Langer — who holds over 1,000 patents worldwide and has co-founded over 30 startups — will speak to the NYU community how he and his graduate students and postdocs have become a fount for turning discoveries made in the lab into a range of commercially successful therapeutic, diagnostic and drug delivery companies.

Frank Rimalovski, executive director of the Entrepreneurial Institute, will interview Dr. Langer about how he cultivates an entrepreneurial culture in the Langer Lab, which has created biomedical technologies that are estimated to have touched lives of over two billion people across the world.

Kindly RSVP here to attend the event and we would greatly appreciate your help in spreading the word to your colleagues and students.


The event is hosted by the NYU Entrepreneurial Institute and will take place on Friday, January 29th at 10:30 am at the Silver Center, Hemmerdinger Hall, 31 Washington Place, NY.

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