Summer@Highland Info Session

Interested in starting your own company?

Have questions about entrepreneurship & venture capital?

Want to work for some of the hottest startups?

Michael Gaiss, SVP of Boston-based VC firm Highland Capital Partners will be on Northwestern’s campus this week. He will be talking about Summer@Highland, an incubator program for university-affiliated entrepreneurs to advance their startup initiative or company to the next level. The program provides them with a financial stipend and complimentary work space in Boston or California with no equity stake in exchange for participation. He will also be recruiting all engineering disciplines for his portfolio companies. The event details are:

Date: Friday, April 1 2011

Time: 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Location: McCormick/TECH M164

If you or your student team would like to meet with him after the event, email a short project description to Alison Howard: AHoward@hcp.com.

Highland Capital Partners is a venture capital firm focused on building companies in the communications, consumer, digital media, healthcare and information technology markets. For more information check out: www.hcp.com.

 

Entrepreneurship at Northwestern

Entrepreneurship is everywhere. A recent Business Week article titled ‘Startup Fever: College Students Have It Bad’ talks about the boom in entrepreneurship in college campuses around the country.

Northwestern University, in Evanston, Ill., added six more undergraduate classes in entrepreneurship in the past three years (for a total of eight) in response to student demand, says Michael Marasco, director of Northwestern’s Farley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

The Farley Center has pioneered a series of innovative interdisciplinary courses called NUvention in different verticals — Medical focuses on medical innovations, Web on web-based businesses and Energy on energy and sustainability projects. These classes help students go from idea to conception to the actual launch of the businesses.

For the complete Business Week article, click here.