Webinar: Legal Needs of Early Stage Academic Startups

When founding your first startup, you know you will need help from attorneys, but what are the most critical early legal needs for your fledgling startup? For this webinar, Brian Appel and Matthew Brown of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and Tali Muchin and Marc Morley of Mintz reviewed four of those main areas and…

Webinar: Startup Licensing 101 – Review and Updates

In 2021, OUP and three licensing experts presented a 5-part comprehensive series on the basics of startup licenses out of academia. Join OUP, Certified Licensing Professionals, and our panel of experts for this “highlights” discussion as a refresher on academic startup licenses and updates on particular areas of negotiation. Topics include: • Field(s) of use…

Webinar: Ask a VC (2025)

For our sixth annual ‘Ask a VC’ webinar, OUP’s Life Science Managing Partner, Matt Cohen, and Technology Partner, Manny Stockman answered academic founder’s and our partner TTO’s questions on anything and everything as it pertains to venture capital operations, decision-making, and the current investing environment. Since the purpose of this webinar was to answer questions…

Webinar: Entrepreneur-in-Residence Programs – from the EIRs’ Perspectives

Many universities now have Entrepreneur-in-Residence programs to help along nascent startups or aspiring academic founders. Experienced startup executives join these programs for various reasons and perform a variety of responsibilities to shepherd these early-stage opportunities. During this webinar, we spoke with three current EIRs: • Don Manfredi – University of Michigan • Julie Schoenfeld –…

Webinar: Ask a VC (2024)

Do you have a burning question on venture capital you need answered? Watch OUP’s fifth annual ‘Ask a VC’ webinar, a session where our partner TTOs can ask Managing Partners Marc Singer and Bill Harrington anything and everything as it pertains to venture capital operations, decision-making, and the current investing environment. Since the purpose of…

Webinar: University Royalty Monetization

Last week we had a panel discussion webinar on what university leaders should know about royalty monetization, including legal nuances, university mission view points, and buy-side perspectives. As an opener, we reviewed what a royalty monetization is and the growth of monetizations in the past few decades. The bulk of the webinar wasa practical discussion…

Webinar: AI in University Commercialization Practices

As the world of AI continues to grow, we will dive into a couple of programs that have sprouted in the Technology Transfer space to understand how AI can be used to help the process of university commercialization functions. Marc Sedam of NYU and James Zanewicz of Tulane University will join us to discuss how…

Webinar: Ask a VC (2023)

Do you have a burning question on venture capital you need answered? Join OUP for our fourth annual ‘Ask a VC’ webinar, a session where our partner TTOs can ask Managing Partners Marc Singer and Bill Harrington anything and everything as it pertains to venture capital operations, decision-making, and the current investing environment. Since the…

Webinar: Ask a VC (2022)

In OUP’s third annual ‘Ask a VC’ webinar, our partner TTOs ask Managing Partners Marc Singer and Bill Harrington anything and everything as it pertains to venture capital operations, decision-making, and the current investing environment. The purpose of this webinar is to answer your questions on venture capital and startups. Query areas include: – What…