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Venture
Forum Company Profile: XCom Wireless
During one of technology's most intense venture capital droughts,
CalTIP winners and 2002 Venture Forum presenters XCom
Wireless accomplished the nearly impossible last week, closing
an A-Round series with Ardesta for $2.5 million.
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Venture
Forum presenters in the news: U.S., Swiss quantum connection has
potential for high payoff (Small Times)
Venture Forum 2002 presenters Maxima (profiled
here), a San Diego-based optical wireless company, is
maximizing its chances in an emerging small tech market by exclusively
licensing technology from Swiss-based Alpes Lasers. The market is
in free-space optics, a wireless technology that beams data across
open spaces or through windows at “fiberlike” speeds.
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 Weathering
the Perfect Storm
by Martin D. Pichinson, Principal, Sherwood Partners, Larta University
speaker
In today's current economic downturn, or the perfect storm, as I
like to call it, companies are facing some of the toughest decisions
they've had to make in decades. Not since Holland in the 1630's,
or the 1835 British Rail fiasco, has such unprecedented prosperity
been followed by such incredible fallout. There were of course smaller
incidents of financial craziness, but the recent technology splurge
ranks with the best.
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Upcoming
Larta Events
 April
3: Venture Forum 2003
The Venture Forum 2003 will address new opportunities, current trends,
market realities, and an outlook of the future of emerging technologies.
In addition to presenting companies who define technical excellence,
world-class experts will share their knowledge about meaningful
investment opportunities amidst the current marketplace. Keynote
speaker: Shaygan Kheradpir, Chief Information Officer, Verizon Communications;
Albert Myers, Corporate Vice President and Treasurer, Northrop Grumman.
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Larta University
February - March 2003
March
6: How to Avoid Common Business Pitfalls And Stay in the Black
This seminar will examine how entrepreneurs can avoid
trouble and stay in the black despite the unpredictable economy.
You will learn effective solutions for building a successful
company and avoiding financial disasters. Learn ways to monitor
cash flow and assets, extend runway, and reduce cash burn.
Study companies that have failed and learn from their mistakes,
as well as successful companies and learn from their successes.
Martin Pichinson is a principal and founding partner of Sherwood
Partners, Inc. Specializing in the restructuring and dissolution
of technology companies, he is relied upon by many of the
major lending institutions, law firms and venture capitalist
firms to make tough decisions to improve, sustain or create
an orderly liquidation of companies.
Location: Downtown L.A.
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March
12 & 13: Attracting Capital
With the ever-worsening state of the VC industry, emerging
companies need to know the most realistic options for financing.
This workshop considers the pros and cons of different financing
strategies, including government funding, loans, VC financing,
and angel financing. Also discussed will be alternative strategies,
such as partnering with customers, bootstrapping, and leveraging.
Locations: Irvine & West L.A.
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March
18 & 26: PwC Expert Access #2: Accounting Issues for Emerging
Technology Companies
Stock Compensation, Revenue Recognition, Equity Transactions,
Research and Development are four areas of fundamental importance
to emerging technology companies and four areas that have
unique and often complex accounting issues. The goal of the
course is to highlight key accounting and reporting matters
and to give you a working understanding of what impact these
areas have on your business and your business decisions.
Locations: West L.A. & Irvine
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March
19: Hong Kong, The Springboard to China, produced by Larta
and Invest Hong Kong
Come and explore alternate revenue sources from Asia Pacific
using Hong Kong as a springboard. Learn how Hong Kong's new
technology infrastructure can jump start your entry into China.
Featuring Mike Rowse, Director-General of Investment Promotion,
HKSAR Government; C.D. Tam, CEO, Hong Kong Science & Technology
Parks Corporation (HKSTP); and Betty Fung, Coordinator, Cyberport.
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New from Larta Research
Beyond
Accession: The Globalization of China and Its Economic Impact
on the U.S. and Other Trading Partners
This new white paper from Larta Research examines China's
economy, which had already been robust and progressive prior
to China's 2001 accession into the World Trade Organization
(WTO). With data and analysis of the nation's recent economic
history, this report examines how China's accession will affect
the rest of the world, which industries will witness the most
transformation, and what challenges and opportunities China's
accession creates for the U.S. and U.S. businesses. The paper
also addresses specific opportunities and obstacles for businesses
and entrepreneurs interested in conducting business in China.
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The
2003 Technology Innovation Index
The
2003 Technology Innovation Index builds upon 2002’s edition.
Larta has refined the research methodology, updated and more
closely defined the data sets, and more critically analyzed
the results, allowing for a deeper examination of the infrastructure
critical to technology industries. This year’s Technology
Innovation Index will focus on the role of technology in education,
and assesses its role in promoting achievement and facilitating
innovation. Particular attention will be paid to educational
systems and to data comparing Southern California’s counties
with each other. In addition, the Index will include a brief
introduction to issues and research related to the role of
technology in education. Examining these issues will highlight
the public policy considerations and reforms that will best
support the sustained growth of the regional technology sector.
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The
2003 Federal Technology Funding Guide
Sponsored by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Larta has published its latest edition of the most comprehensive
resource on government-facilitated programs for R&D, Winning
Government Money, The 2003 Federal Technology Funding Guide.
The report is recognized as the nation's leading survey on
technology funding by the federal government (over $90 billion
per year). With interest in government funding for technology
at an all time high, this publication serves a relevant need
for companies seeking this kind of assistance.
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Other Articles
Sponsored By:
Business,
Investment, and Entrepreneurship:
VC
whispers (Red Herring)
Budding medical-device companies can benefit from aging
baby boomers, and the VCs that see the opportunity they
present.
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Security:
Spy
Agencies Tight-Fisted on Data (Wired)
While the U.S. government fine-tunes its computer networks
to better fight terrorism, federal intelligence agencies
can't agree on the best way to share crucial information
with each other, let alone with state and local law
enforcement.
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Nanotechnology:
Commercialization
Challenges Remain for MEMS (Nanotech Planet)
Despite profound technological advances that are
being developed by the U.S. MEMS industry, it faces
significant near-term fabrication challenges in moving
MEMS devices from the lab to commercial products, according
to a report by the MEMS Industry Group.
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Digital
Media :
Cyber-Blackbeards
Beware (Washington Post)
Uncle
Sam is getting serious about piracy. No, not the parrot-toting
knaves of the high seas, but their modern-day broadband
namesakes. The latest development: The Justice Department
this week seized a domain name and Web site that traded
tips and products about copyrighted movies and games.
Officials are using the case to warn other potential
pirates about the risks of swapping illegal files and
copyrighted products on the Internet.
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*********** Events Calendar ***********
This events calendar is provided as a service by Larta about
events vetted and endorsed by Larta.
March
11 - 14: The National SBIR/STTR Conference
Small businesses can learn how to apply for, and what it takes
to win, some of the $1.5 billion in U.S. Government R&D investments
at the SBIR/STTR Grant Program, March 11-14, at the 2003 National
SBIR/STTR Conference in Albuquerque, NM. The SBIR program funds
high-risk projects at the earliest stages of technology development--before
companies can attract venture capital--and works with you through
that development and on into the actual commercialization of your
product.
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March
12: Lava Investment Capital Conference
The largest, most important conference of the year on sources
of capital for emerging growth and middle market companies. Featuring
60 speakers, including R. Glenn Hubbard, Chairman, President's
Council of Economic Advisers. Special $40 discount for VOX readers,
use code LARTA23 (case sensitive).
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March
18: CalTech/MIT Enterprise Forum Presents, Venturing in Medical
Technologies
This panel discussion will focus on new ventures in medical
devices
and what entrepreneurs want to know about: Where the emerging
opportunities in the medical device field are, what the medical
device field landscape will look like in five years, what the
pitfalls in starting and growing successful medical device companies
are, and what areas to avoid.
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April
29 - May 1: National Nanotechnology Initiative
From Vision to Commercialization is designed to provide a comprehensive
and in-depth look at the NNI. The focus of this exciting conference
is to look at what areas are being funded and why, what the results
of research have been to-date, and what avenues appear to hold
commercial promise.
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Larta's full event calendar
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