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By the University at Buffalo
The University at Buffalo will host the 10th annual Pre-Seed Workshop for aspiring high-tech entrepreneurs on May 25-26 at UB's New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, 701 Ellicott St., Buffalo.
The workshop is a two-day boot camp that offers entrepreneurs in high-tech industries the opportunity to determine the viability of their startup concepts, and will include pitch sessions from 2-3:30 p.m. each day.
This year's program has been expanded to include life sciences as well as engineering and manufacturing tracks.
The workshop will bring together technical, legal, business, finance and marketing experts in the community, who will take entrepreneurs through a series of facilitated, hands-on sessions to investigate and further develop pre-seed-stage companies spun out of universities, hospitals and inventors' basements.
Ideas being showcased at the workshop include:
The Pre-Seed Workshop, founded and facilitated by Mark Wilson and Judy Albers, has helped more than 200 entrepreneurs statewide decide whether they are ready to start a high-tech business.
Pre-Seed workshops also help to train the next wave of entrepreneurs, allowing undergraduate, graduate and professional students to gain real-world experience by sitting on teams alongside scientists and business experts.