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May 8 |
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8:30 am |
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Matt Noah founded NetSuds after
leaving ADC where he worked in Business Development and the Office
of Technology until March 2000. Prior to ADC, Matt held
engineering positions at Telogy Networks, ACT Networks, AT&T Bell
Labs, ITT and Rockwell. He holds a BS degree in Electrical
Engineering from North Dakota State University and a MS degree in
EE from Stanford University where he graduated in 1981. |
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There is more
to Minnesota than being part of the fly-over Why Minnesota is the best
place in America to start and grow a company. |
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8:45 am |
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Dave Stassen
manages the healthcare investment activities for St. Paul Venture
Capital and was recently named one of two Managing General Partners there. |
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Venture
Capital Industry Status - Where do we go from here? |
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9:15 am |
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Karen Gilles Larson
is the CEO of Synovis Life Technologies which designs, develops,
manufactures and markets medical devices for the surgical and
interventional treatment of disease. Ms. Larson joined the
company in April 1989 as Director of Finance and Administration.
In December 1989, she was promoted to Vice President of Finance
and the following year to CFO. She was named of President and
Chief Executive Officer in 1997. |
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Technology Risk:
Considering the Possibilities |
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9:45 am |
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Brian Sullivan,
Republican Candidate for Governor (left) |
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Norm Coleman, Republican Candidate
for US Senate (center) |
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Tim Pawlenty, Republican
Candidate for Governor (right) |
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Technology Policy Vision for
Minnesota - 10-minute Perspectives from candidates for US
Senate and Minnesota Governor (all candidates were invited to
participate) |
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10:15 am |
Break |
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Communications/Internet Track |
Medtech/BioTech Track |
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10:30 am |
Selected Start-ups giving 15-minute presentations in
a room separate from the Medtech/BioTech Track.
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Selected Start-ups giving 15-minute presentations in
a room separate from the Communiations/Internet Track.
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Noon |
Lunch Break |
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Bleeding-Edge
Com/Internet
Presentations |
Bleeding-Edge Med/BioTech
Presentations |
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1:30 pm |
Dan Ryan, SVP, Stellent |
Spencer Lien, CEO, QRS
Diagnostics |
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1:50 pm |
Jim Leslie, CEO, Midwave |
Dr. Grethcen Unger, CTO &
President, GeneSegues |
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2:10 pm |
Andrew Odlyzko, AVP Research, UofM |
Becky Bergman, VP Materials &
Biosciences, Medtronic |
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2:30 pm |
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Bill Joos has served
as VP of Entrepreneur Development at
Garage Technology Ventures
since its founding in October 1997. He has held sales and
marketing positions with a variety of companies, including IBM and
Apple Computer. Bill is perhaps best know as a "Pitch Doctor" and
has assisted hundreds of entrepreneurs with refining and focusing
their positioning and presentations. |
Perfecting Your Positioning & Pitching
Before you can pitch your company to investors and attract strategic
partners and alliances, you've got to perfect your positioning. Bill's
workshop will provide you with a systematic approach to help you
better determine your critical market definition and value proposition
statements. The session will also briefly cover how to craft the best
possible pitch in the shortest possible time. He'll take you through
the process of creating and delivering a compelling elevator pitch,
executive summary, and company overview presentation. |
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3:30 pm |
Break |
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4:00 pm |
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Timothy Kraskey,
Managing Director,
YankeeTek Ventures,
Boston, was one of the founders and VP of Sales & Marketing for Sahara
Networks, acquired by Cascade Communications and later Ascend.
He served as VP of Marketing in Ascend Core Systems Division. Tim has
also worked for ADC, Newbridge Networks and General DataComm in key
sales and marketing roles. He holds BA in Economics from the UofM. |
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A View from the East:
Differences Between Boston and Twin Cities Start-Ups |
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4:30 pm |
Recipe for Funding "High Tech" in a Tough
Environment
| Tim Kraskey -
YankeeTek Ventures |
| Tom von Kuster
- AMEX |
| Moses Joseph -
Anila Fund |
| Steve Larsen -
St. Paul Venture Capital |
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Intellectual Property's Role in VC Funding
for MedTech/BioTech
| Mathias Samuel
- Fish & Richardson |
| Dave Stassen -
St. Paul Venture Capital |
| Jim D'Aquila -
The Mercanti Group |
| Don Back, CTO,
Lombard Life Sciences |
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5:30 pm |
Poker Tournament,
NetSuds Reception, Optional Evening Program |
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May 9 |
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8:25 am |
Matt Noah, CEO, NetSuds |
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8:30 am |
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Michael Duran joined
Apax Partners as a Partner
in February 2000 to
focus on investments in telecommunication equipment, service
providers, software and components.
Prior to joining the
company, Mr. Duran was a vice president at Lazard in equity research
for four years. Apax
Partners is one of the world's largest venture capital firms with
US offices headquartered in Manhattan. |
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Telecrisis: When, Where and How Will the Communications Market Return |
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9:00 am |
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Mike Berman
is a medical device entrepreneur and was President of Boston
Scientific/Scimed. As President,
Mr. Berman provided leadership and management for more than 4000
employees. Mr. Berman is currently working with the following
companies: (1) Velocimed, (2) Curon, (3) CoAxia, (4) Myocor, (5)
Neuromics, Urometrics, Data Sciences International. These
companies have raised a cumulative $115 million during his Board
tenure. |
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Medical Device
Start Ups—Lessons Learned from the Inside and Outside |
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9:30 am |
Break |
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Selected various Start-ups giving
15-minute presentations in
2 separate rooms. |
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9:45 am |
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11:00 am |
Selected various Start-ups giving 5-minute
presentations |
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Bleeding-Edge
Com/Internet
Presentations |
Bleeding-Edge Med/BioTech
Presentations |
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11:20 am |
Steve Oberlin, CEO, Unlimited
Scale |
Michael P. Kaye, M.D., SVP,
Acumen Healthcare |
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11:40 am |
Brett Shockley, CEO,
Spanlink |
Margaret Walker, Business
Development Manager, Bio, 3M |
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Noon |
Lunch |
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1:30 pm |
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Gerald Timm, Founder, Timm
Medical, is a scientist, inventor and entrepreneur who has
repeatedly created value for investors in the urological device
industry as a co-founder of Mentor Corporation and American Medical
Systems and a founder of Dacomed Corporation and Timm Medical
Technologies. His will describe some of the challenges he faced from
the conceptualization of an idea through the creation and sale of a
business. |
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Creating
Value in the Medical Device Industry: From Concept to
Realization |
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2:00 pm |
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Dr. Frank Cerra, SVP, UofM
Academic Health Center |
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Medical Biotech and the AHC |
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2:30 pm |
The Academic Factor in the Start-Up
Equation: A Panel Discussion
| Doug Johnson,
Director, U Minnesota CSOM NBDE |
Allen Dines, Asst. Director,
U Wisconsin, New Business Development |
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Cathy Connett, Director,
University of St. Thomas John M. Morrison Center for
Entrepreneurship |
Daryl Erdman, Senior Director,
Aavin Venture Capital |
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3:30 pm |
Awards Presentation by
Spoken Impact and sponsored by
Messerli & Kramer for Best Presentations by Start-Ups at the Conference.
Independent judges will be attending all sessions and rating the
quality of each presentation. |
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3:45 pm |
Matt Noah and Adjournment |
