Growth Leadership Series

HTR is pleased to announce a new series of seminars called the Growth Leadership Series!

About the Seminars
These seminars are sponsored by HTR in conjunction with professionals in the Greater Rochester community for the benefit of all technology start-up entrepreneurs. The topics will focus on “typical” challenges entrepreneurs face in starting and growing a high tech start-up.

The seminars will be held at HTR’s Lennox Tech Enterprise Center, 150 Lucius Gordon Drive, West Henrietta, 14586. Click here for map and directions.

Continental breakfast and light lunch is included.

Agenda

Cost
$25 per seminar

Registration
You may register for individual seminars or all four.

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December 1, 2011

Nixon Peabody Presents
Common Intellectual Property Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them

Summary
Entrepreneurs are the backbone of our economy, and their creative ideas and proprietary technologies have great potential to succeed in the marketplace. Intellectual Property issues for start-up and emerging companies can be complicated and challenging – particularly when considering how to protect their innovations and ideas. Nixon Peabody has a proven track record of helping our client entrepreneurs grow their businesses into successful, stable, and profitable enterprises and maximize the value of their intellectual property. In this session, Nixon Peabody attorneys Joseph M. Noto, Peter Durant, and Kristen Mollnow Walsh will provide entrepreneurs and emerging companies with a list of strategic items to consider as they seek to create, protect, and enforce intellectual property rights for their young businesses:

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February 2, 2012

Innovative Solutions Presents
Information Technology – the Biggest and Most Common Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs

Summary
Innovative Solutions will address IT strategies dealing with the challenges that growing businesses are facing today. Topics will include Staffing, Infrastructure, Software, Web Presence, Mobile Workforce, Security, Messaging/Collaboration, Disaster Prevention vs Disaster Recovery, Hardware Acquisition/PCs/Laptops, and Phone Systems. Innovative Solutions has been providing professional services to high technology small to medium size businesses since 1989. With over 60 employees including consultants, MBAs, web marketing, software and infrastructure specialists, Innovative Solutions is uniquely qualified to provide the assistance that growing businesses need to thrive in today’s marketplace.

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April 5, 2012

Strategy Science Inc. Presents
How to Better Integrate Sales and Marketing into your Overall Business Process

Summary
As the complexities of our technologies, products, services, and markets increase, so do the complexities of our problems. Nowhere is this more evident than in Sales & Marketing. Whether we are a high tech start-up or an established high volume manufacturing business, we all face the need to better integrate Sales & Marketing activities into our other business processes, while constantly solving the related problems that impact overall business efficiency and effectiveness. This hands-on workshop is designed to help organizations explore their own specific needs for integrating and aligning Sales & Marketing processes into Strategy, R&D, New Product Development, and Operations, as well as providing a framework for identifying and solving the unique Sales & Marketing problems they face. 

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June 7, 2012

PlanetGPA, Presents
Dr. Uma Gupta, CEO
Women Entrepreneurs – Addressing Challenges Faced by Woman Entrepreneurs in Science, Technology & Engineering

Summary
The Women Entrepreneurs Leadership Series seminar is designed to engage, inform, and connect women entrepreneurs in science, technology and engineering, and other emerging high-tech disciplines with proven business leaders and successful entrepreneurs. Women leaders in the region will present on a wide range of complex issues, including leading and managing organizations, growing a successful business, thinking strategically, and leveraging business relationships. This workshop will strengthen the foundation for long-term success for women entrepreneurs and provide a powerful toolkit to take on the inevitable challenges that women entrepreneurs face.  

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