There are a couple of upcoming seminars that are architected to yield some sophisticated insight on typically complex issues around financing early-stage life science companies. The first event courtesy of the Colorado Bioscience Association is Negotiating the Venture Term Sheet (25 September 9am, @ Cooley Godward – to RSVP or for more info click [HERE]). [...]

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Tom Cech recently appeared on the CNBC pre-market morning program Squawk Box to discuss a variety of topics including the future of biomedical research, the Colorado Initiative in Molecular Biotechnology and the 1989 Nobel Laureate’s return to the University of Colorado where he will also be resuming teaching freshman chemistry. It is always fascinating to [...]

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In the spirit of cool…I stumbled upon SharesPost – a sort of CraigsList meets ebay for buyers and sellers of private company equity. Talk about creating a new marketplace. Naturally there is a lot of legalese required to complete such a transaction, from investor qualification to transact, to escrow and indemnification agreements and beyond. Now [...]

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Some of you may have had your head buried in a text book, an .xls file or bent over the lab bench with pipette in hand (or more likely…all three) and therefore have not heard about the Colorado Initiative in Molecular Biotechnology yet. CIMB’s mission is to foster new research, teaching, and technology development at [...]

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It’s Back-to-School & Back-to-Denver for BioBeers. We hope the summer was a fruitful time for you. Needless to say we are excited to kick-off ( yet) another exciting season of BioBeers, coming to you from live from high above the Mile High City – 27 floors high to be exact – at the swanky Peaks [...]

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The history of Venture Capital dates back to 1946 courtesy of the American Research and Development Corp., founded by Georges Doriot, who is subsequently considered to be the father of VC. Though many may argue the following (myself included)…The birth of biotechnology can be pegged to the 1953 presentation of the DNA double-helix structure by [...]

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