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1 Intersection of Science & Business: Start-up companies Marc Rioult MIT - Technology Licensing Office
2 Build your startup in 4 easy steps 1. Helen, Bob, and Jones want to do a startup 2. Is it for me? 3. Establish intellectual property (patents) 4. Organize Startup What? What for? Why? Who cares? Why me? Team Funding License technology from MIT 5. Start up!
3 Helen, Bob, and Jones - 1 Helen and Bob, postdocs in Jones lab Regulation of a receptor involved in condition X Small proteins A, B, C are over-expressed in X A, B, C can be found in blood of patients with X Hypothesis Levels of A, B, C can be used to diagnose X Enough substance for a startup?
4 Helen, Bob, and Jones - 2 Regulatory pathway of receptor is characterized A, B, C are characterized Blood levels of A, B, C correlate with early stages of X Hypothesis Diagnosis of X before clinical symptoms of X appear Enough substance for a startup?
5 Helen, Bob, and Jones - 3 Have some antagonists and modulators Can measure levels of A, B, C in blood Hypothesis: Antagonists/modulators can suppress symptoms of X Preliminary data suggest hypothesis is correct Enough substance for a startup?
6 Build your startup in 4 easy steps 1. Helen, Bob, and Jones 2. Is it for me? 3. Establish intellectual property (patents) 4. Organize Startup What? What for? Why? Who cares? $:Why me? Team Funding License technology from MIT 5. Start up!
7 1. My own startup is it for me? What s my motivation? -> hunger Relentless fighter : beat the Curmudgeon Sacrifices in personal life? Career choices?! What s your goal: Star, Cashcow, Lifestyle? -> Rollercoaster of your life, tired, no vacation, but feel great, and... $$$? -> 50% - failure / 40% - moderate / 10% - $$$ What if you fail?
8 Helen, Bob, and Jones - 4 Bob, Helen, and Jones: What now? -> Labmeeting, joint meeting, publish, work Do s and Don t s From here to the company -> Patent 101
9 Build your startup in 4 easy steps 1. Helen, Bob, and Jones 2. Is it for me? 3. Establish intellectual property (patents) 4. Organize Startup What? What for? Why? Who cares? Why me? Team Funding License technology from MIT 5. Start up!
10 2. Patents 101 Man-made NOT: laws of nature, formula Concrete - data, descriptions, NOT: ideas Machine, process, composition of matter Non-obvious, useful, and novel In exchange for detailed public disclosure, Gov t grants you right to exclude others from making, using, selling your stuff for 20 yrs Patent is equivalent to a monopoly Is a patent a good thing? Is it ethical?
11 2. Patents 201 Helen et al: Labmeeting, joint meeting, publish? Only unpublished material is patentable What is a public disclosure? (Labmeeting, ) Action: Disclose invention to TLO TLO: File patent application then publish (Does TLO stop publication?) Why file immediately if US 1 yr grace period? Inventorship, ownership? Timeline, cost?
12 Helen, Bob, and Jones - 5 Status: Have much strong patent application: Composition of matter: antagonists, modulators Composition of matter: A, B, C Machine: assay for blood levels of A, B, C Method: how to treat X Startup: Go or No Go?
13 Build your startup in 4 easy steps 1. Helen, Bob, and Jones 2. Is it for me? 3. Establish intellectual property (patents) 4. Organize Startup What? What for? Why? Who cares? Why me? Team License technology from MIT Funding 5. Start up!
14 Organize Startup - Curmudgeon Concept of startup: Business plan (never ending) What? Technology, Applications/Diseases What for? Customer, End user, Needs, Market Why? Benefits: faster, better, cheaper. Who cares? Regulatory, Insurances, Orgs, $: Why me? Funding: grants, loans, investors, Lots of literature and resources
15 Organize Startup Team 1 Who is on the team? Helen, Bob, and Jones? MIT employment and Conflicts of interest: MIT employment vs. Employee of company Rule of thumb for faculty: 20% consulting, but MIT 1st MIT supervisory role and equity in student s startups Sponsored research from own company to own lab Consulting vs. academic research and teaching Final say: Dept head, VP Research/Associate Provost Keep a firewall between MIT and startup Career decisions
16 Organize Startup Team 2 The team: Officers, SAB, Board, consultants, employees Helen CEO Jones MIT, Chairman of SAB, will consult Bob CSO then MIT faculty, SAB, will consult Others from lab - consultants? What s your goal: Star, Cashcow, Lifestyle?
17 Organize Startup Team 3 People are more important than technology! "I'd rather invest in a Grade A person with a Grade B idea, than in a Grade B person with a Grade A idea General Georges Doriot, Founder of American Research and Development Corporation (1946) located in Cambridge, MA. ARDC was the first publicly owned venture capital firm. Where to find Grade A people? -> Networking, entrepreneurial events, Startups, Competitors, Companies when acquired, MIT resources, TLOs, State Agencies e.g. MTTC,
18 Organize Startup - License MIT owns patents: Startup needs to license What is a license? -> Rent of patent rights Who can negotiate the license with TLO? Terms: equity, upfront, maintenance fee, royalty, milestone payments, patent cost, etc. Obligations for startup: funded project, achieving milestones, reporting, etc. Other: IP prosecution, termination
19 Organize Startup - Funding How much? -> More, in stages, even more When? -> Earlier: License is $$, then IP cost From where? > Own money, FFF, Angel, VC, Venture Banks, SBIR grants, State grants, SBA loans, Commercial banks, How to find it? -> Networking, MITEF, $100K, Deshpande, Fed and State Gov t, How expensive is the money? VC > Angel > Banks > SBA Loans > Grants; (FFF, own )
20 Build your startup in 4 easy steps 1. Helen, Bob, and Jones 2. Is it for me? 3. Establish intellectual property (patents) 4. Organize Startup What? What for? Why? Who cares? Why me? Team License technology from MIT Funding 5. Start up!
21 Start up - How hard? Matter of personality, skills, motivation, dealings with personal comfort zone, responsibilities, family, people who you know, opportunity, luck,. if those match the task: Great! if they don t but a startup bugs you anyway: Join someone else s startup to try it out and if they don t at all: that s OK too.
22 Resources at MIT Policies & Procedures: VMS - MITEF - Deshpande - iteam Faculty & serial entrepreneurs in your own Department MIT Libraries Market reports, etc. Sloan School library, people, faculty
23 Resources Orgs & Literature SBIR All Federal Agencies; 2 phases State: MTTC - MLSC - SBA Loans, people, P. Kolchinsky: The Entrepreneur s Guide to a Biotech Startup ( Rich & Gumpert: Business Plans That Win $$$ Sahlman et al.: The Entrepreneurial Venture MIT Sloan, HBS, Babson: libraries
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