Helge Seetzen, CEO of TandemLaunch Technologies, shares how his company matches inventors with entrepreneurs to build new companies that provide solutions for future trends.
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I recently had the pleasure of doing an interview with Stephen Ibaraki and thought it was worth sharing some of our conversation on licensing negotiations (You can check out the full interview here). Licensing is unlike exchanges in the normal marketplace because intellectual property licensing occurs entirely in the...
As an accelerator that focuses on working with university inventors to build great products, and who invests heavily in young talent, the role of a university education is a constant source of internal conversation. As a result, I’ve taken quite an interest in the Thiel Fellowship; Peter Thiel’s idea...
Helge Seetzen talks about the different aspects of knowledge transfer. Video explains the high level concept and then goes on to explain it deeper using real life examples of how knowledge transfer works between teams as well as in B2B scenarios where the knowledge is being transferred to a...
I’ve written in the past about the challenges of being an academic and an entrepreneur (here, here, here and here), and it’s one of the more common topics I get asked about. Many students come to me with questions on balance – how do they get their entrepreneur career...
One of the pitfalls of many tech entrepreneurs is pitching their solution simply and clearly. What is it? What does it do? Is it actually useful? Often, we’ll get stuck either trying to explain it all at once or getting too technical for our audience. We recently had an...
I was reflecting over the holidays about my university days working on grant applications after an email from an inventor about a team grant that “was much less straight forward than hoped.” The second I read the word ‘team’, visions of last minute faxes, conference calls, and strategically timed...
In a startup things move constantly, roles change and within a few months people swing from one side of the spectrum to the other depending on their immediate needs. This works well when the team is small and people feel ownership of the whole project. I’ve had multiple roles...
I recently listed co-founder asymmetry as one of the key failure conditions for startups. While definitely a major cause of startup collapse, there is one scenario where co-founder asymmetry can work well enough: university spin-outs where you have student-professor partnership. Students don’t have the expertise and seniority of their...
You are managing a startup. It is growing quickly and you have personally become the entire human resources department. And admit it, you under estimated the time it takes to find the right person who will understand the business vision and fit in with your culture. Are you meeting...