The third podcast of Venture Connect online with partners Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati: The three great universities that form the vertices of the Triangle of North Carolina are engines of innovation for its ecosystems. Every year these great universities convert billions of dollars of research into new companies like Precision Biosciences, Stride bio, Carbon, Quintiles, Cree […]
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Venture Connect Online â Podcast |Building and Managing your Board
The second podcast of Venture Connect online with partners Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati provided some educational content on building and managing your board of directors. Megan Baier of WSGR interviewed Paul Garofolo of Locus Biosciences This is a great listen if you are a first time CEO. Paul is talking openly about a âmisfireâ he […]
Venture Connect Online – Podcast |How to Sell Yourself and Your Company to Investors
Venture Connect online is a 3-week virtual version of our annual live event Venture Connect. As a part of hosting this event one of our partners Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati provided education content. Michael Hostetler and Sabrina Poulos both with strong ties to North Carolina interviewed Ben Scruggs of Hatteras venture partners and Jernej […]
Cash is King Part II (So now what? )
By now you have settled into the new normal–working from home, balancing home activities and work activities from the same house/apartment/room/dining room table. Being on too many zoom calls, team scrums, virtual company meetings/happy hours. Hopefully, you have also gotten a good handle on your actual cash flow? (see cash is king part I). You […]
Effective Leadership in Crisis
In early March, seemingly an eternity ago, I visited a clientâs office to catch up. One of the firmâs senior leaders greeted me in the hallway with a smile and elbow bump. I wondered in the moment if I should do the same. Yet as I walked down the hall, out of habit, I shook […]
Making Connections that Count at Venture Connect Online
Networking. Meeting people. Seeing companies. Making connections. This is what we heard from you, our attendees, partners, sponsors, and presenting companies, about what makes Venture Connect such a valuable experience. So when it became clear that we could not safely hold our Summit as planned, the CED team immediately began working to reimagine a virtual […]