Category: San Diego

Preparing your company for angel or venture capital financing, acquisition, or going public all involve the same basic steps. Connect and the Perkins Cole law firm have organized a half-day workshop to help startup founders structure their companies for a seamless transition to venture financing and beyond. More information and online registration is here.  

The corporate financial reporting fraud scandals of the early 2000s were a wake-up call for public corporations and those responsible for the integrity of the capital markets. The aftermath of these events led to a renewed focus on risk management compliance and governance. More recently, the mortgage crisis and financial meltdown have led to tightening … Continue reading “Managing Fraud and Misconduct Risk in Today’s Environment”

A strategy for manufacturing products and process innovation must recognize the growing interdependence of services and manufacturing in the new global landscape. The Connect Innovation Institute has organized this briefing to review production and policy concepts and discuss the opportunities that exist for executing many of the policy recommendations that were shared in February at … Continue reading “Reviving Prosperity: What America’s 2 Systems of Innovation Mean for San Diego”

This workshop covers proposal compliance, proposal content development, selection criteria and evaluation of contracts awarded by the U.S. Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare Command (SPAWAR) Systems Center Pacific. This agency is responsible for the development of technology needed to collect, transmit, process, display and manage information essential to successful military operations. The center develops the … Continue reading “San Diego Advanced Defense Technologies Cluster Workshop”

The San Diego Center for Algae Biotechnology (SD-CAB) is hosting a symposium on the use of genomics and molecular biology to enable increased productivity of photosynthetic organisms, both crop plants and algae. At a time of increasing global demands for fossil fuels and improved crop production, the symposium will address the need to boost renewable … Continue reading “Sustainable Food and Fuel for the 21st Century”

Connect, in partnership with the Latham & Watkins law firm, has organized this workshop on best practices for launching a website. It can be a daunting process given the many commercial factors and legal implications that come into play. From pre-launch to completion, what are the steps necessary to ensure a successful launch? The experts … Continue reading “How to Launch a Website While Protecting Yourself and Your Customers”

Let’s Bowl. Join Biocom at its complimentary annual Orange County Open House. Strike up conversations with fellow bowlers while learning how Biocom can save you and your company money. Dinner and drinks are provided, but the turkey you will have to earn at this one of a kind event. More information is here.  

President Obama recently signed the bipartisan JOBS Act into law proclaiming, “This bill is a potential game changer” for start-ups and small businesses. In order to help San Diego’s innovators get a head start on the multiple new ways to access capital provided by the JOBS Act, Connect in partnership with Allen Matkins, Ernst & … Continue reading “New Ways to Raise Capital under the JOBS Act”

BioTech Primer provides classes, services, and products to help educate the non-science professional in the basics of biotechnology and pharmaceuticals. This all-day seminar is for forward-thinking, non-science professionals, whose products or services are tied to the industry, and who recognize the importance of improving their skills and competencies by increasing their knowledge of scientific concepts. … Continue reading “Biotech Briefing: Life Sciences for the Non-Scientist”

[Updated with special discount from Qualcomm. See below.] Uplinq 2012 is the Qualcomm-sponsored mobile developers conference that offers technical education and vital business connections across multiple leading platforms, including Android, Windows Phone, Windows 8, HTML5, and Brew. Uplinq 2012 is for developers writing for multiple operating systems who need a cross-platform view of how to … Continue reading “Uplinq 2012 Wireless Ecosystem Conference”

The recently enacted Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act represents a significant change to the capital formation regulatory framework. The JOBS Act will affect private companies considering new and alternative capital raising approaches or an IPO, as well as existing public companies, and, of course, the financial intermediaries that advise companies in connection with capital … Continue reading “Raising Capital after the JOBS Act: Where’s the Money Now?”