How to Prepare Your Medical Device Company for Acquisition: an Overview
Tuesday, February 17, 2009 from 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM (PT)
Irvine, United States
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Workshop 1: How to Prepare Your Medical Device Company for Acquisition: an Overview
- Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 - 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
- UCI Student Center, Emerald Bay AB
- Presenters: Charlie Baecker, Admin. Director, The Don Beall Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Ray Cohen, CEO, Symphony Medical, Inc.; Managing Director, Fjord Ventures
Greg Ruehle, CEO, Orange Coast Medical Ventures
Your 84 month playbook for the preparing for acquisition
A highlight of any entrepreneurial career is the experience of taking a company, as a founder or key employee, from start-up to acquisition. Not only can the experience be personally and professionally rewarding but can also be life changing event from the standpoint of creating personal wealth.
The focus of this workshop is twofold:
- Review the depth and breadth of merger and acquisition activity in the medical device industry over the last ten years and
- Relay the general sequence and structure of the growth phases that a typical medical device start-up passes through on its march toward a major equity event.
Presenters will site personal examples and insight into the pros and cons of the process so students can begin to gauge how participating in a major liquidity event might impact their career strategy.
About the 2009 WORKSHOP SERIES :
Every year medical device companies that start as “three technologists and a couple of patents” are acquired for hundreds of millions of dollars. You may be surprised to learn that not only does much of this activity occur right here in Orange County but also that the underlying process of preparing a company for acquisition is a well understood business methodology that can be learned, mastered and applied over and over. As a business student or UC Irvine technologist, you will want to know how the process of positioning a medical device company for acquisition works, how long it typically takes, who you need to involve, what the keys are to raising investment funds and how you can you can apply this process to your personal situation.
The objective of this year’s Les Kilpatrick Students to Start-ups series is to provide business students and UC Irvine technologists with a broad understanding of the 60 to 84 month process of preparing a medical device company for acquisition enabling them to begin factoring this powerful wealth creation mechanism into their career strategy.
For more information: ssubhash@uci.edu | 785 817 0780
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The Les Kilpatrick Students to Start-ups Entrepreneurial Workshop Series is an annual series of presentations produced by the Don Beall Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship focused on providing UC Irvine students with practical, “how to” information about starting and managing a new venture.
The Don Beall Center provides thought leadership in the important science of innovation management, acknowledging that the best way to sustain competitive advantage in today’s global economy is through superior management of innovation at all levels of the economy, from start-up phase to Fortune 1000 divisions. This Center utilizes the expertise of entrepreneurs in the community and provides the impetus for discussion and study of key issues affecting the entrepreneurial community today and into the future.
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