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PricewaterhouseCoopers Expert Access Series
Combines Larta University’s classroom-style seminars with the advisory expertise of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). A set of four high-impact, interactive workshops address finance, audit, tax and accounting issues for technology start-ups. Instructors are PwC Partners with extensive experience serving technology companies and who understand the key business and accounting issues that are inherent in the industry. Classes are basic to intermediate level and require no prerequisites and no advanced preparation. CPE credits are available for Accounting and Auditing and/or Taxation.
Locations: Los Angeles and Irvine

September 17 & 18: Entrepreneurship Series #4: Protecting Your Technology: Intellectual Property Rights
Intellectual property can be the primary asset of a technology company, and strategic management of IP can attract capital and monetize revenue, and impact the long-term results of a company's success. This workshop covers the most crucial legal and business strategies any company should know before exposing its technology to a competitive marketplace, including: copyrighting and trade secrets, working with an independent contractor to develop a product, and licensing.
Locations: Irvine and West LA

September 23: Successful Negotiation Series #2: The Difficult Negotiation
Effective, professional tactics for dealing with real-life difficult negotiation situations, such as "uphill" negotiation where one party has substantially more negotiating power. Structural techniques for successfully dealing with uncertainty in negotiations will also be discussed. The three-hour workshop includes interactive team and individual exercises that help to consolidate new negotiation skills. The instructor is Eric Klein of Katten Muchin Zavis Rosenman LLP.
Location: Downtown Los Angeles

September 24: PwC #1: Start-Up Accounting and Tax Issues
Have you recently formed a new business? Along with all the other concerns of starting a new venture, you will need to consider various tax and accounting issues. This seminar will address issues including stock-based compensation and cheap stock, start-up costs, tax loss and credit preservation, maximizing research tax credits, and other matters.
Location: Irvine

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September 15: Like it or Not
A panel of five active investors will each evaluate three TechSpotter applicant companies in advance of the event at CBS Radford Studios, where they will critique the companies, followed by an audience Q&A. TechSpotter is an investment prescreening services that helps technology companies find funding.

September 16: SoCal Venture Finance Outlook: A New Beginning?
Orange Coast Venture Group monthly breakfast featuring a special "MoneyTree Survey" mid-year update presentation by Anne-Marie Vitale of PricewaterhouseCoopers, and a "who's who" VC panel from six of Southern California's preeminent venture capital firms.

September 17: Valuation for Financing or Selling the Company
A LAVA Seminar Series event. Understanding how to determine valuation and build valuation for an equity or debt financing is imperative for an entrepreneur to successfully approach the capital markets.

September 17 & 18: Entrepreneurship Series #4: Protecting Your Technology: Intellectual Property Rights
This workshop covers the most crucial legal and business strategies any company should know before exposing its technology to a competitive marketplace, including: copyrighting and trade secrets, working with an independent contractor to develop a product, and licensing.

September 22: 2003 Southern California Biotechnology Symposium
Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics presents the "2003 Southern California Biotechnology Symposium: Gene Discovery in Complex Polygenic Diseases" in cooperation with the Governor’s regional Los Angeles office. Continuing in the spirit of the recent Governor’s Life Science Summit meetings, this conference will bring researchers and industry leaders together for dynamic interchanges and collaborative research.

September 23: Successful Negotiation Series #2: The Difficult Negotiation
Effective, professional tactics for dealing with difficult, real-life negotiation situations, such as "uphill" negotiation where one party has substantially more negotiating power. The three-hour workshop includes interactive team and individual exercises that help to consolidate new negotiation skills.

September 23: Software Development Technology Trends
Software Council of Southern California is proud to have a distinguished panel of speakers discuss the primary technology trends that will shape the work of software development leaders, and the opportunities for investors and analysts.

September 24: PwC #1: Start-Up Accounting and Tax Issues
Have you recently formed a new business? Along with all the other concerns of starting a new venture, you will need to consider various tax and accounting issues. This seminar will address issues including stock-based compensation and cheap stock, start-up costs, tax loss and credit preservation, maximizing research tax credits, and other matters.

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