Early-Stage
Funding Strategies, Volume II
Table of
Contents
- TTOs
seek to bolster start-up activity with VC-type funds
- Rutgers
creates its own exit strategy for spinoffs
- University
Funds offers new VC model to commercialize technology
- Financing
woes? Create a VC fund exclusively for your university
- Reap
the benefits of student-run investment funds
- Here’s
how to jump-start a student-run fund
- Case
study: The Frankel Commercialization Fund
- Case
study: Big Red Ventures
- IPO
drought drags on, but TTOs can still get venture backing
- Purdue
philanthropy campaign funds university start-ups
- Public/private
initiative seeks to bridge the IP ‘Valley of Death’
- U
of KY launches private firm to help clinicians commercialize inventions
- Your
alumni can provide “knowledge capital,” not just cash
- Another
funding option: Create a portfolio of prize spinoffs and go public