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SUMMARY:How to Grow your Start-up - Various (See programme)
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190312T173000Z
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190312T210000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Why attend?\n\nThe road to successful growth will be exhilarat
 ing\, scary and littered with setbacks and challenges\, and it's important
  you are as prepared as you can be\, to ensure you have the best chance of
  achieving results for both the company and future patients.\n \nOur line-
 up of expert presenters will help share with you their experiences and so 
 help you to avoid making common mistakes in those early stages that take a
 dditional\, precious funds and management time to fix. \n \nTopical discus
 sions will include:\n \n•     Mentoring - we will hear some secrets to s
 uccess from entrepreneurs who have started and built successful companies.
  \n•     Intellectual Property - specialists will share insight into the
  importance of protecting your Intellectual Property and having the right 
 strategy in place from the start. \n•     Funding - you will gain insigh
 t about grant funding available\, how to access it and how to access fundi
 ng from the private investment community \n•     Talent and People - how
  to ensure you have the right people with the right knowledge and experien
 ce to support growth and the importance of establishing a healthy culture 
 from the get-go. \n\n \nProgramme\n \n17:30  Registration & networking \n1
 8:00  Welcome & Introductions\nJohn Harris\, CEO\, OBN \nDr Elen Wade-Mart
 ins\, Business Manager\, Oxford BioEscalator \n \n18:15  Keynote Presentat
 ions\nRyan Cawood\, Founder & CEO\, Oxford Genetics \nRyan will provide a 
 case study focusing on starting and building a successful company\n \nSiâ
 n Gill\, Partner & Patent Attorney\, Venner Shipley \nSiân will be sharin
 g an insight into the importance of protecting intellectual property and h
 aving the right strategy in place from the start \n \nMatthew Frohn\, Part
 ner\, Longwall Ventures \nMatthew will provide an insight into available g
 rant funding\, how to access it and how to access funding from the private
  investment community\n \nWendy Tindsley\, Senior Business Development Man
 ager\, Aigenpulse \nWendy will be discussing the successes of their recent
  recruitment drive to expand their business\, and the importance of recrui
 ting a team with the right talent at the right time \n \nGeoff Hale\, Mana
 ging Director\, Bioarchitech \nGeoff will be drawing on his experience of 
 working with and mentoring start-up companies\n\n19:30  Q&A Session\n20:00
   Networking over drinks and canapes\n21:00  Event close\n\n \n\n \n \n\n\
 n \n \n\n\n\n \n    \n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:\nVarious (See programme)
LOCATION:Innovation Building
TZID:Europe/London
URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/3202621d-9d40-4152-b23f-be4fba21b6d8/
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