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Raising Venture Capital: - Some of the Important Rules Have Changed!

SoCal Tech Calendar

On November 16, the MIT Enterprise Forum - in a joint program with UCSBs Technology Management Program - will address directly some of the important changes in venture investing through the insight of three experts, each of whom represent different segments of the venture investment community: angel investing, VC investing and private equity venture (..)

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Exit Interview: Lita Nelsen on MIT Tech Transfer, Startups & Culture

Xconomy

And we started to do it more officially, take some equity in the companies, allow the faculty to have equity—but still have exclusive licenses. And that meant that MIT had to look at its policy of doing this as MIT, rather than private activities. And so we got our act together, we got our policies together, very conservatively.

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

I have also attended Thursday Lunch ( thursdaylunch.com ), Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum , and Digital LA. For consulting work, I have done several projects with Lou Sokolovskiy of Genero Capital , a boutique private equity firm. Tell Rod about the LA CTO Forum. What was the best one you’ve been to recently?

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