Funding the Company

May 15, 2012

11:30am – 1:00pm

M2D2 Innovation Hub (video link)

This seminar will be an introduction to several potential funding sources for your start-up company. The panel will include an angel investor, a large pharmaceutical company, a venture capitalist that specializes in investing in early stage academic spin-offs, and a state representative involved in state funding of emerging companies.

Doug Banks, Associate VP for Economic Development, UMass Presidents Office and former publisher of MassHighTech will moderate the panel.

Speakers will include: Chris Silva, Allied Minds and Mark Tepper, Boynton Angels

~Pizza will be provided for lunch~

Manning Schoolof Business

and

Merrimack Valley Sandbox Initiative

Presents

SOCIAL ENREPRENEURSHIP WORKSHOP

Guest Speaker: Jonathan Jackson, Co-Founder& Chief Executive Officer, Dimagi, Inc. Cambridge, MA.

Jonathan Jackson is an entrepreneur and innovator with extensive health technology expertise in both developed andin developing countries.

Founded in 2002, Dimagi is a socially-conscious technology company that helps organizations deliver quality health care to urban and rural communities across the world.

Student Entrepreneur Speaker to Follow: Join us in a discussion about your entrepreneurial idea!

Merrimack Valley Sandbox

Wannalancit Mills, 600 Suffolk St. Lowell, MA.

To register e-mail Lianna Kushi: lianna@merrimackvalleysandbox.org

MassMEDIC

16th Annual Conference

May 1, 2012

8:00am – 11:45am

UMass Boston Campus Center

100 William T Morrissey Blvd

Boston, MA 02125

~The LARGEST MedTech Informational and Networking Program in the Region~

Panel Discussion: MedTech’s New Economic Value Proposition

Moderator: Susan Posner, Vice President, Health Advances

Panelists:

• Jeff Burbank, Founder and CEO, NxStage Medical, Inc.
• Elijah A. White, Director of Regional Marketing ‘ North America, Haemonetics Corporation
• Maria B. Stewart, Director, Health Economics and Reimbursement, Endoscopy Division, Boston Scientific Corporation

Featuring Remarks by: Joe Almeida (President & CEO, Covidien), Robert L. Caret (President,University of Massachusetts), Dr. Hugh Herr (Founder & CTO, iWalk)

Member Cost: $75

Nonmember Cost: $100

For more information and registration please go to massmedic.com

April 17th

11:30-1PM

How do you tell the story of your idea and interest people in joining your team? And most importantly how do you explain how the company will make money in order to interest investors? This session will include several pitches targeted at different audiences as well as some general lessons on what makes a business presentation compelling.

Speakers

Introduction to giving a business pitch – Abigail Barrow, Director, Mass Tech Transfer Center

Professor Stephen McCarthy, UMass Lowell and M2D2, is the founder of 3 start-ups and will give a business pitch for his latest start-up

To register please go to:

http://www.mattcenter.org/umassseminars/seminars.html

–Pizza will be provided for lunch–

Please join us to meet fourteen

MedTech IGNITE:

Networking Night