Corporate Spinouts: An Emerging Source of New
Venture Opportunity A panel presentation featuring
Glenn Solomon, General Partner of Partech International,
George Hoyem, Managing Partner of Blueprint Ventures,
Farshid Arman, Director of Venture Technology at Siemens
Technology-to-Business Center, and Sean Doyle, Sector
Director of Intel Capital.
Did you ever wonder what corporations do with innovations
that don't fit? The answer for many corporations is
“spin-outs.” The problem: how to find the
entrepreneur and the funding to take advantage of the
idea, or, conversely, how does the entrepreneur find
the orphan technology? This panel is composed of two
veteran venture capitalists who will talk about how
to structure such opportunities, how they differ from
other start-ups and how they're the same. Joining them
aree two representatives of corporations that take the
opposite route, looking for independent technologies
that can benefit from a large corporate parent that
can bring them the value necesssary to obtain their
first round of venture financing or provide that funding
itself.
(February 24, 2005)
Running time: 52 minutes |
