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 Standing on
The Shoulders of Giants: An Invitation to the IPv6 Summit
Excitement is building for the
IPv6 Summit in Santa Monica, even from professionals who don't excite easily. The signs are all
around, including more corporate, nonprofit, and media sponsors than ever before in the history of
IPv6 events.
 Hwang Speaks at Entrepreneurs'
Conference
Larta President Victor Hwang addressed the Wisconsin
Entrepreneurs' Conference on Tuesday, June 1, 2004, on the topic of "Creating the right culture
and effective programs for tech-based, high-growth companies" in a session titled "Growing Wisconsin's Entrepreneurial
Climate."
 Top-10 Intellectual Property Rights
Mistakes
The requirements and
processes to protect a company's Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) may seem straightforward, but
there are many subtleties and specifics that companies routinely overlook.
 Federal Technology Funding Guide 2004
Larta Institute's Federal
Technology Funding Guide is recognized as the nation's leading survey on federal government
technology funding. Learn how to apply for and win government grants. Includes an in-depth look at
SBIR and STTR programs, two critical sources of R&D funds for small businesses. Don’t miss your
chance to receive federal technology grant money.
 Technology
Transfer and the Life Sciences
Universities, federal labs, corporations and research
organizations need help commercializing new technologies in the life sciences. Larta Institute
provides a new resource guide to help companies, researchers and policy makers encourage
biotechnology transfer.
 Coming Soon:
Recent Changes in China's Intellectual Property Laws
This Larta Institute white paper
will detail recent changes to China's intellectual property laws, spurred in part by the country's
efforts to join the World Trade Organization. A valuable resource for anyone considering doing
business with China.
Send comments and submissions to James Klein, Larta
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SSTI, the State
Science and Technology Institute, calls Larta University one of the "best programs in the
country," having "helped hundreds of entrepreneurs, implemented innovative programs, and assisted
client companies to raise hundreds-of-millions of dollars.
June 8: How to
Write a Winning SBIR Proposal
Winning federal money begins with a winning SBIR proposal. Get access to the millions of
dollars that are set aside by the United States Government and private organizations to fund
technology research and development activity. This session will cover the search process to find
SBIR/STTR grants appropriate for your technology, general information about the culture and
requirements of each agency offering these types of grants, and the business
structures/collaborations/research plans found in winning proposals.
Location: Los
Angeles
July 15: Successful Selling Skills and Tactics
This 3-hour boot camp helps
participants learn how to use a defined sales process to sell successfully. In an interactive
setting, you will create specific and customized scripts (or prompters) to assist in your selling
process. We will focus on how to turn the prospect who is “not looking” into a buying customer. We
will discuss how to uncover your buyer’s needs and how to qualify your buyer by using a defined
sales process. In addition, we will touch on getting past the “gate keepers” and how to control
sales costs (by using marketing collateral, demos, proposals, etc., as a way to stall the decision).
By creating a repeatable sales process, you will be able to build a sales team who will follow a
defined series of steps and sell your product successfully. Once the sales process is in place, you
will be able to manage with accurate forecasts month after month.
Location: Los
Angeles
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Top Stories in
Hot Technology Sectors
Biotechnology
Protests Ready for BIO Conference
(Wired)
Approximately 18,000
bio-philes will descend Sunday on San Francisco for the biggest biology fete in the world. And it
wouldn't be a Bay Area party worth talking about without protesters.
more Biotech
news
Communications
Phone
Lobbies Push Hard on Local Access (Washington Post)
The Bush administration is being
forced to take sides in one of the longest-running and most consumer-sensitive feuds in corporate
America, between long-distance telephone companies such as AT&T and MCI and regional phone
giants, including Verizon, BellSouth and SBC Communications.
more
Communications news
Consumer Electronics
Requiem for
the handheld? (CNet News)
Sony announced it will scale back its Clie handheld line and
bow out of the U.S. and European markets for PDAs (personal digital assistants).
more
Consumer Electronics News
Hardware
Can hardware
be free? (Red Herring)
Odd bedfellows Sun and Microsoft are ready to give it away, but
hardware’s not quite ready or willing to become a commodity.
more
Hardware news
Internet
Amazon's
Latest Offering: Hollywood's Inside Track (Los Angeles Times)
The retailer wants to
help make movies by offering research from its IMDb Pro service to industry players.
more
Internet news
Investments
A New
Strategy for Venture Investors: Hedge (Knowledge@Wharton)
It’s the venture capital
investor’s rule of thumb: Nine of every 10 investments will not make money. If all goes well, the
10th will make enough money to exceed all the losses.
more
Investment news
Media
Comcast: Game on (Red Herring)
Craving new forms of entertainment and
revenues, America’s largest cable company launches an on-demand video game service.
more Media
news
Security
Linksys
Wi-Fi router vulnerability discovered (CNet News)
Cisco Systems has issued a patch for
a security flaw in one of its Linksys routers that could give hackers access to consumers' home
networks.
more Security news
Semiconductors
Intel: Why the Street Sees a Good Bet (BusinessWeek)
Thanks to the
rebound in tech spending and new products, the chipmaker stands to cash in on the investments it
made during the downturn.
more
Semiconductor news
Software
US, Oracle Head to Court in Takeover Trial
(Reuters)
US antitrust
officials will head to court in their bid to block Oracle Corp.'s $7.7 billion takeover bid for
PeopleSoft Inc. in one of the biggest hostile merger battles ever in the technology industry.
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Events Calendar
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This calendar lists events endorsed by Larta
Institute.
June 6-9: Bio 2004
Annual International Convention
The biotechnology industry will go back to where it
all began – San Francisco – to celebrate the benefits of biotech to health, agriculture, the economy
and the environment. More than 16,000 biotech executives, investors, journalists, policymakers and
scientists from more than 55 countries are expected to attend.
June 8: How to
Write a Winning SBIR Proposal
This Larta University workshop will cover the search process to find SBIR/STTR
grants, information about the agencies offering the grants, and the elements found in winning
proposals.
June 8: Where
Will the Next Wave of Technology Take Us...?
Technolink Association presents a roundtable forum with high-tech, life
sciences, innovative, international, and political leaders discussing the impact that the next
generation of technologies will have on our business and society.
June 9-11: 5th
Annual Venture Capital Investing Conference
International Business Forum presents the flagship event for private equity
investors and VCs. This conference will show each group ways to profit from the inevitable changes
ahead.
June 14-17: North
American IPv6 Summit
The North American IPv6 Summit welcomes everyone interested in
meeting the pioneers and time-to-market developers and adopters of Internet Protocol version 6
(IPv6), the Next Generation Internet. The North American IPv6 Summit is the premier event for the
world IPv6 community, providing an international forum for advancing the development and
implementation of next generation Internet networks, technologies, applications and
policies.
June 15: OCVG Monthly
Breakfast Program
Orange Coast Venture Group has lined up the “Chief Revenue
Officers” of four industry-leading, Orange County-based venture-stage companies with notably
successful sales and marketing programs to share their insights on how to find and win customers in
today’s brutally competitive marketplace.
June 19: Entrepreneurial Opportunities in Software
Join the Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum and the Software Council of
Southern California for a look at areas of software holding special entrepreneurial promise. The
panel will examine software opportunities from several perspectives and will look at the industry as
a whole and distill the highest potential opportunities for entrepreneurs during the next several
years.
June 24: Raising
Money: Angel Investments
Tech Coast Venture Network (TCVN) presents an opportunity
hear a Tech Coast Angel (TCA) explain their criteria for investment and to hear a recently funded
CEO describe the Tech Coast Angel's process, and hear an angel that has graduated to an SBIC discuss
whether he has “lost his wings”.
July 14: Growth Capital Conference XIII
Growth Capital Conference XIII:
"Where Deals Are Made" is a great opportunity to network with executives and professionals,
including capital providers, firms seeking capital, deal makers, accountants, advisors, and
attorneys.
July 15: Successful Selling Skills and Tactics
This 3-hour Larta University
boot camp helps participants learn how to use a defined sales process to sell successfully. By
creating a repeatable sales process, you will be able to build a sales team who will follow a
defined series of steps and sell your product successfully. Once the sales process is in place, you
will be able to manage with accurate forecasts month after month.
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IPv6 Summit
June 14-17, 2004
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