The NCI SBIR PLAN Webinar focused on the First Steps for Starting a Small Business. The content covered:
- Key steps to get your small business started;
- Entrepreneurial roadblocks;
- Transitioning from academia to industry;
- Financial tools;
- Entrepreneurial resources;
- IP protection;
- Types of commercial entities;
- Getting help from the University; and
- Financial strategies.
In this PLAN webinar, prior SBIR/STTR awardees with a variety of cancer technology products explained how they tackled challenging issues related to starting a small business.
Watch video if interested in:
- Reasons for starting a small business
- Utilizing external resources to build your business team
- Corporate structure considerations
- Resources for accounting, data storage/archiving, and cap tables
- Non-dilutive and dilutive funding resources
Watch video if interested in:
- Entrepreneurial vision
- Licensing a university technology
- Corporate structure considerations
- Non-dilutive funding & raising private capital
- Assembling a business team
Therapeutics - Tezcat Biosciences
Watch video if interested in:
- Transitioning from Academia to business
- IP/licensing
- Prioritizing key experiments
- Helpful resources (networking events, classes, accelerator programs)
Watch video if interested in:
- Reasons for starting a small business
- Transitioning from academia to business
- Helpful resources (non-dilutive funding, entrepreneurial training, accelerators)
- Risk benefit frameworks for starting a small business
- Clinical partnerships