Intellectual Property, Social Entrepreneurship and Tech Diversity
What’s happening at the Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center: Week of June 13
For the week of June 13 at the Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center in San Francisco, learn how to protect your intellectual property, create opportunities for social entrepreneurship and bring diversity to tech through cultural capital.
Here are the three — FREE — events at the Center, we’d love to see you!
Tuesday June 14: 9:30–11:30amPT — sign up here.
IP can be tricky waters to navigate whether you’re at the beginning of building your business or looking to deepen your footprint. Not sure where to start? Or are you getting tangled in the complexity of trademarks, patents, and how to prioritize where to file?
Take advantage of this interactive session and learn how to create value for innovative technologies and safeguard your business assets.
2. “5 Things Every Founder Should Know about Social Entrepreneurship” with Neetal Parekh of Innov8Social
Tuesday June 14: 12:00–2:00pmPT — sign up here.
Do you have an idea on how to solve a messy problem and maybe don’t know where to start? Or are you already on your path working to improve your community or society and looking for fellow trail blazers to bounce ideas off?
This lunch and learn session will provide actionable tips on how to leverage the social impact movement from a storytelling and business perspective. You’ll get a chance to interact with founders who share your vision of an improved world, and learn how to measure impact in ways that are meaningful to investors and your customers.
3. “Diversity in Tech: Cultivating Cultural Capital” with an all-star panel of founders, investors and business leaders
Tuesday June 14: 5:30pm-7:30pmPT — sign up here.
People of color and women are entering the startup world faster than ever, performing better on average than their less diverse peers. Yet, the gaps in funding, hiring, and developing diverse tech talent persist. The research suggests these groups possess navigation and self-advocacy skills, cultural fluidity, and creativity that allow them to succeed despite the challenges they face in a white-male-dominated industry.
So, how do marginalized founders capitalize on this “cultural capital” and develop a startup ecosystem that recognizes and rewards their diverse skill sets? And how do investors identify and foster these unique gifts to maximize their investment opportunities?
This panel discussion will give attendees the opportunity to speak with funders, founders, and leaders in the fight to increase diversity at the world’s biggest tech companies. We’ll discuss the unique assets diverse founders possess — the hustle, the resourcefulness, the ability to communicate across cultural lines, their contrarian views on the market — and explore how to use them when rasing capital, growing and leading a diverse team, and building disruptive companies that have the power to close the gaps.
