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2009-2010 Workshops
For upcoming workshops, please see our schedule of events page.

2008-2009 Workshops
Preparing Winning Business Plans and Financial Statements
Presenter: Professor Eric Siegel
Click here to view slides from the business plan writing presentation

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Entrepreneurship and Intellectual Property: protecting what really matters
Presenter: Ricardo J. Moran, Ph.D., J.D.
Hunton & Williams LLP (Washington DC office)
Associate, Litigation & Intellectual Property Practice
Click here to view slides from the Intellectual Property workshop

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Moving the innovation from academia to the marketplace: technology transfer at UPenn and CHOP
Presenters: Tomas Isakowitz, Greg Baker
UPenn’s Center for Technology Transfer and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Technology Transfer Office

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Tomas Isakowitz, Video #1

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Tomas Isakowitz, Video #2

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Greg Baker, Video #1

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Greg Baker, Video #2

Idea Generation Workshop
Presenters: Professor Karl Ulrich
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania - Entrepreneurship Clinic

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Karl Ulrich, Idea Generation Video

2007-2008 Workshops
Fundamental Legal Matters for the Entrepreneur
Presenters: Neela Mookerjee (L'07), Adeline Park (L'07), Timothy Porter (L'07), Simon Saddleton (L'07), and Rebecca E. Clayton, Faculty Supervisor
University of Pennsylvania Law School - Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic

Click here to view slides from the Legal Matters Workshop

Business Plan Financials
Presenter: Lawrence Gelburd, Lecturer in Wharton
Lawrence Gelburd presented tips and tricks for developing financial statements for your business plan.

Click here to view slides from the Business Plan Financials Workshop

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How to Write a Business Plan
Presenter: Eric Siegel, Lecturer in Wharton

Eric Siegel provided a detailed overview of the essential do's and don'ts of business plan writing.

Click here to view slides from the Business Plan Writing Workshop

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Past Winners Panel
Speakers: Jared Bernheim, Eng'08, 2005-2006 2nd Place & Gloeckner Award Winner, Team IntelliStem
Raymond Aranoff, WG'08, 2006-2007 BPC Finalist, Team Vektor

Past finalists and winners provided insights and advice for participants on how they achieved success in the Wharton Business Plan Competition.

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Idea Generation
Speaker: Prof. Gary Dushnitsky, Wharton School

In an interactive environment, attendees experimented with new idea creation and turning old ideas on their head for innovative solutions.

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2006-2007 Workshops
Business Plan Financials
Presenter: Jeffrey Litvack, JD Harvard Law School, WG '90

Participants learned how to prepare business plan financials for the final phase of the Wharton Business Plan Competition!

Click here to view the slides from the Business Plan Financials Workshop

Click here to view the videos of the Business Plan Financials Workshop

How to Write a Business Plan
Presenter: Eric Siegel, Affiliated Faculty, Wharton Management Department

Getting business plans in order is always a little art, and a little science. Good news: participants learned how to make a great business plan when Eric Siegel taught them the insider's tools to good business plan development.

Click here to view the slides from the Business Plan Workshop

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The Realities of Launching a Life Sciences/Biotechnology Company

Senior executives from Schering-Plough Corporation (a generous sponsor of the 2006-2007 Wharton Business Plan Competition) provided students with three unique perspectives on what it takes to launch a life sciences/biotechnology company today. David Piacquad (WG’84), Schering-Plough’s Senior Vice President for Business Development, provided students with an understanding of corporate venturing and some of the commonly encountered challenges and mistakes made by entrepreneurs who are seeking funding. Sumant Ramachandra, MD, PhD, Schering-Plough’s Vice President, Global Development for Oncology, helped students better understand the realities and pitfalls of the product development process – from pre-clinical research through proof of concept....and beyond. Finally, Stacey Seltzer (WG’04), Senior Manager Global Licensing, spoke about the process of collaborating with a large pharmaceutical company.

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Legal Basics

In coordination with the Penn Law Small Business Clinic, the Wharton Entrepreneurial Program offered an overview of basic legal issues that every entrepreneur should address. Topics such as the formation of a legal entity, registrations/permits/licenses, intellectual property basics, employment issues, and contracts were covered.

Click here to view slides from Legal Basics Workshop

Click here to view handout on 'For Profit Legal Structures' from Legal Basics Workshop

Click here to view handout on 'Comparison of Intellectual Property Protection' from Legal Basics Workshop

Click here to view the video of the Legal Basics Workshop

How to Write an Executive Summary

This workshop covered how to write a good executive summary and was presented by Professor Lawrence Gelburd, an affiliated lecturer with the Wharton Entrepreneurial Program.

Idea Generation
Speaker: Prof. Gary Dushnitsky, Wharton School

The workshop provided individuals interested in the Wharton Business Plan competition with some foundations and general guidelines for how to stimulate idea generation for new businesses. The workshop briefly described drivers of opportunities windows. It then introduced a technique for generation of new ideas.

Click here to view slides from Idea Generation Workshop

Past Winners Panel

This panel discussion gave potential competition participants a chance to hear how previous finalists and winners developed their business plans and how the competition helped them build their entrepreneurial skills. Attendees are encouraged to ask questions. Panelists discussed, among other things:

How they developed their ideas
How they built a team
What they felt were the major challenges of the competition

Invited Speakers
Dhaval Gosalia - 2005 Grand Prize Winner and 2004 3rd Place - FibrinX
Jonathan Goodspeed - Dhaval's partner in both competitions
James Thottam - 2006 Great 8 Finalist - iBroker Inc
Onne Ganel - 2002 Grand Prize Winner - MicroMRI
Mike Viola - 2006 Great 8 Finalist – OrthoLab Technologies

Video and presentations of workshops from previous years are available on our Past Workshops page.