Knowledge Center
Steve Rothman recently presented a talk on the subject of public company acquisitions.
A copy of the slides can be found here.
Former Rothman & Company client FastSoft, Inc. recently announced that it will be acquired by Akamai Technologies Inc. FastSoft was started in 2006 in order to commercialize technology developed at Caltech and funded by the National Science Foundation, DARPA and Cisco. . FastSoft’s technology, called FastTCP, is a content acceleration software used by some of the largest companies on the Internet. The full press release can be viewed here.
Stephen Rothman will be presenting a webinar with Technology Transfer Tactics entitled: Drafting Win-Win Start-Up Licenses: An Interactive Workshop. The workshop will cover a range of issues involved in licensing university technologies to university start-ups. banking The 90-minute workshop will cover topics including entity formation, venture capital and angel financing, the use of equity in university start-up companies, licensing intellectual property and negotiating with the technology transfer office. CLE and CLP credits are available.
Attendees may register through Technology Transfer Tactics for a fee of $197. For more information please visit Technology Transfer Tactics.
On Monday, April 16th Stephen Rothman will be presenting on the topic of early stage funding as part of the National Council of Entrepreneurial Technology Transfer’s (NCET2’s) Research Commercialization Introductory Course. Mr. Rothman will present information on the typical sources of start-up financing including bootstrapping, raising money from family and friends, SBIR grants, angel investing and venture capital financing. Company structures . Mr. Rothman will also briefly touch on the securities laws involved in start-up company financing.
A pdf of the slides used during the presentation is available here.
As part of the National Council of Entrepreneurial Technology Transfer’s (NCET2′s) Research Commercialization Introductory Course Stephen Rothman will be presenting on the topic of employment and consulting agreements in university start-up companies. Mr. Rothman will discuss the ways in which academic researchers are able to maintain their status as full-time employees with the university while also working with the university start-up company. Topics will also include the impact of Stanford v Roche on the assignment of intellectual property and strategies for hiring early stage employees.
A copy of the slides can be downloaded here.
