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MBA student group hosts entrepreneurship symposium

"Managing the Entrepreneurial Lifecycle" is the title and topic of a symposium at Cornell's S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management the morning of Friday, Feb. 25, in Sage Hall.

The event is open to the public for a fee. To register and for more information, see the EVC Web site: http://www.evcclub.com.

The symposium brings together students and industry professionals to explore the challenges entrepreneurs may face and learn how others handled similar challenges. The main sponsor is the Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital (EVC) Club, a student group at the Johnson School with the goal of fostering thinking and discussion on entrepreneurship and its funding through venture capital. It is the fifth annual EVC symposium.

The program begins with a panel from 8:30 to 9:45 a.m., "Commercializing Campus Technology." "Corporate Partnerships and Venture Capital" is the title of the panel from 10 to 11:15 a.m. The third and final panel, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m., is "Exit Strategies vs. Operating Strategies." Participants, moderators and their affiliations include: Mark Brandt, Maple Fund; Len Dolbort, Primet Precision; Corine Farewell, CCTECH; Ravi Jacobs; Intel Capital; Ralph Terkowitz, ABS Capital Partners; Hans Schwarz, Xilinx; Jennifer Tegan, Cayuga Ventures II; Steve Greenberg, Impremedia; Dan Simpkins, Hillcrest Communications; and Zachary Shulman, the J. T. Clark Senior Lecturer of Entrepreneurship and Personal Enterprise at the Johnson School.

February 24, 2005

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