Orientation Packet (PDF download)
This packet contains your legal agreement with IDEA Labs concerning intellectual property. All members of your team must fill this out individually and hand it in before the first Design Review in the Fall.
Orientation Powerpoint (Powerpoint download)
Design Review Requirements (Word document download)
Template for December Progress Report (Word document download)
BALSA Office Hours - Mondays 6-7 PM FLTC 210 or 211, contact Brett Maricque (maricquebrett@wustl.edu)
IDEA Labs Office Hours - Tuesday 6-7:30 CIC
IDEA Labs works with teams and provides common resources but takes no financial stake in successful projects
Invention Tracking Form: A suggested breakdown of ownership for Biodesign inventions. We encourage teams to decide on the ownership plan early on in the project, and decide final ownership based on actual contributions towards the end of the project.
IP Reassignment: When your team is ready to have their intellectual property reassigned to you, contact the IDEA Labs Legal Chair to begin the process. Reassignment is guaranteed when teams have an entity, IP assignment, done quarterly reviews, and a business plan.
Takes 2 steps, please follow both.
1.) Submit Online Form: fill out all the fields and submit for our record.
2.) Reimbursement printout: Print, and turn in the form with attached receipt(s) to the Skandalaris Center, located in Simon Hall on the Danforth Campus.
Note: When you buy something online, print out the email you received when you placed the order, not the shipping notification. It needs to show who paid for it, the amount paid, the method of payment, and the billing address. On Amazon (and other websites), you can go to your account and print an invoice for a particular order, that should have all the info needed.
A list of all IDEA Labs' equipment and their uses will be available here soon.
OTM Technologies: OTM has a wealth of technologies, all available for IDEA Labs members' use.
Machining Equipment Safety:
Cerner Problem Day Powerpoint (Powerpoint Download)
BALSA Entrepreneur's Roadmap (PDF Download)
Quantrapreneurship Worksheets (.zip Download)
Zana Videos:
IDEA Labs contracts with Husch Blackwell for all teams' legal needs.
Sample provisional patent (Word Download) provided by Husch Blackwell
Raising publicity profile for your venture is always an important way to get your name out there for potential funding & customers. Keep your pitch simple, and make sure you don't say so much that you risk your IP.
7 steps for raising funding
Raising funds is at the start of every companies first steps. IDEA Labs is a great start, but there is much more out there.
For it, you need a pitch deck and a business plan.
Sample pitch deck: http://www.pitchenvy.com/
Sample Business Plans: http://www.bplans.com/sample_business_plans.php
Another Sample Business Plan (PDF Download)
Step 0: IDEA Labs <-- Oh wait, you're already doing this one. :)
Step 1: Friends, family, and fools (A rule of thumb for any starting company is that you should be so confident in it that you're willing to ask family, if not, keep improving till you are. )
Step 2: St. Louis Local funding groups
Balsa Foundation: http://www.thebalsafoundation.org/
BEC Business Plan competition: http://gradpages.wustl.edu/bec
Arch Grants: http://archgrants.org/
Olin cup : https://sc.wustl.edu/Programs/Pages/OlinCup.aspx
Step 2a: St. Louis Advisory Groups
ITEN http://itenstl.org/
GatewayVMS http://www.gatewayvms.org/
Step 3: Business Plan
List of business plan competitions: http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/73208
Lee Kuan Yew Global Business Plan Competition http://www.smu.edu.sg/lky
New Venture Championship: http://nvc.uoregon.edu/
Rice Business Plan Competition: http://alliance.rice.edu/rbpc.aspx
Venture Adventure: http://www2.lebow.drexel.edu/enews/ugcurrent/570/1382.html
Jungle Business Plan Challenge : http://som.yale.edu/news/news/2nd-annual-mba-jungle-business-plan-challenge
JHU Business Plan Competition http://bpc.jhu.edu/
MIT 100K : http://mit100k.org/
PolyU Innovation & Entrepreneurship Student Challenge: http://www.polyu.edu.hk/polyuchallenge/index2.php
Tulane Business Plan competition: https://tulane2013.istart.org/
McGinnis Venture Competition: http://www.cmu.edu/cie/events-and-opportunities/mcginnis-venture-competition/
OFC Venture Challenge: http://ofc.thurgoodmarshallfund.net/
Harvard Business School http://www.hbs.edu/newventurecompetition/Pages/default.aspx
MOOT CORP: http://www.businessplans.org/history.html
NIH SBIR/STTR Grant Programs: https://sbir.nih.gov/
-->Example: Emre Toker's successful SBIR Grant application (PDF Download)
Step 4: Incubator Programs
BioGenerator: http://www.biogenerator.org/
Square1: http://www.bedprogram.com/home.html
Step 5: Venture Capital
Cultivation Capital: http://cultivationcapital.com/
RiverVest: http://rivervest.com/
Arch Angels http://www.stlouisarchangels.com/
Alumni & Development: Contact IDEA Labs Board for Scott Ward
Step 6: Series Funding
Series A, B, C funding (usually helped through VC groups)
https://www.crunchbase.com/funding-rounds
Step 7: Exit
IPO or Sale.