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Venture Capital & Startups 3: Pitch Decks: Examples and Best Practices - new location JRR, with a special guest!

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Intensive workshop Careers & Professional Development GradFUTURES Learning Cohort Innovation/Entrepreneurship

Back to Venture Capital & Startups Learning Cohort 2022-23: An overview (Please register for individual sessions below instead. All future sessions held in JRR/LAS)

Wed, Nov 9, 2022

4:45 PM – 6:45 PM EST (GMT-5)

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Session Description: All are welcome! Even if you missed our previous sessions, you can still join us. We will discuss what are the key elements that should be in every startup’s pitch deck and what questions every startup should be prepared to answer. We will then walk through the pitch deck of an existing, successful startup as an example of what to and not to include in a startup’s pitch deck. Tony Williams, the Associate Director at Princeton's Office of Technology Licensing (“OTL”), will be our special guest and will describe how the OTL works with grad students to patent and commercialize their ideas and technology. Tony will also stick around after the class to meet the students and answer any additional questions.

Cohort Description: A growing number of startups are emerging from universities and research institutes — young enterprises that are accelerating innovation and changing the game in social entrepreneurship and in every field imaginable. Increasingly, graduate students are the founders behind these new businesses. At Princeton, there is a robust innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem that connects graduate students, postdocs, alumni, faculty, venture capitalists, and industry.  During the course of 8 weeks, this program serves as a “crash course” for understanding the world of VC funding and startups. You will learn about the lingo, the economics, the process, and the landscape—and meet members of the broader innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem. You will also hear first-hand from graduate alumni founders about their entrepreneurial journeys -- and all of the challenges and successes they had along the way. The cohort culminates with a group project where graduate students will work across disciplines to synthesize and apply their learnings. 
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Tony Williams

Associate Director at Princeton's Office of Technology Licensing

Princeton University

After earning a PhD in chemistry from the University of Cambridge, I gained postdoctoral research experience in materials chemistry at the University of Edinburgh, and then at Princeton University in the laboratory of Professor Robert Cava.  Following an internship at an early stage venture fund, the Royal Society Enterprise Fund, I later earned an MBA from the University of Oxford, where I won a competitive fellowship to work for the university’s technology transfer office. Prior to starting at Princeton in February 2016, I worked as first an analyst, and then an associate on the Technology Ventures team at Imperial Innovations, at that time one of the UK’s leading investors in academic research-based startups, and also the technology transfer office of Imperial College London. 

When I was a PostDoc at Princeton, I had a wonderful research experience but reached a career crossroads - I loved science and research, but I realized that my focus wasn't specific and deep enough for me to want to pursue a traditional academic career. Through some strategic planning, and a little bit of luck, I made the transition to working at the interface between academia and the commercial world - which I believe is a much better fit both for my skill set and interests. I've worked on both sides - as an early stage investor, and as a university staff member - but in either case, I've found it extremely rewarding; you get to learn about the most original, cutting edge ideas and innovations and then help to translate them into companies, and ultimately products and services that can have a real impact on the world. And at the same time, you get to advise, teach or mentor some of the most creative and innovative faculty, researchers and students and help them on their entrepreneurial journey.