Webinars and Podcasts

For the last two academic years, YII has hosted a series of more than 20 webinars with experts in commercialization and podcasts with young innovators and entrepreneurs. These webinars and podcasts are streamed live and recorded for re-broadcast. University Affiliates can broadcast their webinars into classrooms and student clubs.

Recent Events
April 21, 3 PM EST
Webinar: Show Me the Money, How to get your Research and Development funded through the Small Business Innovation Research Grant Program
Presented by Gregory Rice, Management Consultant, University of Pittsburgh Small Business Development Center

Podcast Interview with Susan Gregg Koger and Eric Koger, Co-founders of ModCloth
Listen now

Would your company like to advertise at one of our webinars or podcasts?

Archived Podcasts
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Archived Webinars

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CND$5 each
CND$25 for access to all archived webinars and future live and recorded webinars until September 1, 2009

  • Nick Triantos, Board Director at Sand Hill Angels and former Chief Software Architect at NVIDIA - What is Venture Capital and Who Are Angel Investors?
  • Andrew Chung, Senior Associate, Lightspeed Venture Partners - Building Teams
  • James Smith and Shane McLean, LaBarge Weinstein - Financing the Start-up
  • Ian Tien, Senior Product Manager, Microsoft Corporation (Co-hosted by CIE Seattle) - Turning Inventions into Compelling Products
  • Wendy Kennedy, "So what? who cares? why you? (TM): The Inventors' Commercialization Toolkit" - Bring Your Idea from Lab to Life
  • Sean Wise, Wise Mentor Capital - Team Building Basics
  • Barbara M. Johnson, Partner, and Harry A. Hanson, III, Partner, Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP - Founder Equity Issues
  • Ashton Udall, Global Sourcing Specialists - Basics of Manufacturing Your Product Overseas
  • Lahav Gil, President, Kangaroo Design Inc., and Co-Founder, Humanitarian Products Group - Introduction of Industrial Design
  • Ebad Rahman, Bereskin & Parr - Intellectual Property
  • Suvashis Bhattacharya, Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner - Intellectual Property for Start-ups
  • Tim Berry, Business Planning Expert and Founder of Palo Alto Software - The Not So Big Business Plan
  • Paige Arnof-Fenn, Founder and CEO of Mavens and Moguls, Columnist for Entrepreneur Magazine - Positioning Your Way to Success: How to Leverage Market Research
  • Jim McClurg, President, Social Enterprise Alliance - Social Entrepreneurship
  • Jerr Bosche, Executive Director, Institute for Social Entrepreneurs - The Promise and the Perils of Social Entrepreneurship
  • Jay Shepherd, Founder of LaunchPad - Setting Up a New Company to Commercialize Your Invention