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| Michael Hool |
In 2008, the Hool Law Group of Phoenix (through Michael Hool, Jennifer Lefere, and Jonathan Coury) began mentoring law, business and engineering students enrolled in the TVSG. For more than 20 years, under the direction of Hool, the law firm has leveraged its entrepreneurial spirit, community connections and deep legal and business knowledge to help clients achieve their goals. Attorneys at Hool Law Group are focused on entrepreneurial success, representing investors and growing ventures from start-up to exit. Read more ... |
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| Tom Fulcher |
Tom Fulcher, the founder of The Idea Gardener, an Arizona-based business development and marketing consulting organization, has been involved with the TVSG since 2008. He has more than 20 years of marketing, management and business development experience and has led projects for start-up and small firms, as well as departments and divisions for large firms including Colgate-Palmolive and Heinz. Fulcher serves as interim COO for a technology start-up and recently served as CEO of an Internet firm while marketing it for eventual sale. During his career, he has held the positions of director of marketing, vice president of marketing, new business development, and international development, board member. Read more ... |
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note from the director
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| Eric Menkhus |
Greetings and thank you for opening the first edition of Tech Ventures Voice, the semi-annual newsletter for the Technology Ventures Services Group (TVSG) at Arizona State University. This newsletter will keep you updated on TVSG activities as well as introduce you to some of our students and clients.
I hope you will find Tech Ventures Voice to be both interesting and informative and a useful tool for building and/or keeping a relationship with TVSG. As always, if you have any questions about the program or anything in the newsletter, don’t hesitate to contact me at eric.menkhus@asu.edu or 480.727.8856. I’d love to hear from you.
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client corner
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| Glenn Grossman |
When 99-year-old Doris Kalkstein fell and broke her hip three years ago in California, her grandson, who was living in Arizona, was unable to get sufficient information about her recovery and wellbeing.
“I couldn’t find out what was happening with her,” said Glenn Grossman, a 2008 graduate of ASU’s technology MBA program. “My aunt was overwhelmed taking care of her to the point that she didn’t pick up the phone, and it was hard to keep up with how my grandmother was really doing.”
The frustration of that experience resulted in the formation of Grossman’s new company, Tutela, LLC, a client of the Technology Ventures Services Group since August 2008. The other founders of Tutela, Latin for “caring and protection,” are Bill O’Brien and Andy Lowe, also ASU MBA graduates. Read more ...
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student profile
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| Raees Mohamed | Armed with an undergraduate degree in Business Management from ASU and 3 years of consulting experience, Raees Mohamed came to law school in the fall of 2006 with
a desire to learn not just about law, but about its intersection with science and technology.
By the time he was a second-year student, Mohamed was eager to enroll in a clinic and receive outside-the-classroom experience with real clients. He found the Technology Ventures Services Group, with its law and business focuses, to be just up his alley.
Mohamed worked on small teams with other ASU graduate students, in disciplines such as engineering, business and chemistry, to provide legal and business services to TVSG entrepreneurial clients. Read more ...
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about the tvsg
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| SkySong |
The Technology Ventures Services Group is a for-credit course open to ASU graduate and honors undergraduate students with diverse backgrounds in business, engineering, the sciences and law. Graduate students from the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, the W.P. Carey School of Business, the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, as well as undergraduate students in Barrett, The Honors College, work together to assist in the commercialization and monetization of new technologies developed at ASU. Read more ... |
notable milestones
From Idea to Product: Ian Monat, owner and managing member of Monat Technologies, LLC, approached the TVSG for assistance in taking his idea for a catalytic converter theft deterrent device – The Catlock – to market. Monat needed help with market research, financial projections, LLC creation, operating agreement drafting, trademark and patent research, and a referral to someone that could help him with design and prototyping activities. Read more…
Nonprofit Creation: Kigabo Mbazumutima was referred to the TVSG by Myles Lynk, a professor at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law. Since giving up his medical practice in Africa to immigrate to the United States to support his sister, Rose Mapendo, and her children, Mbazumutima has dreamed of using the great opportunities he's received here to give back to the people of the Congo, his native country. Read more…
Alumni: The TVSG officially has the first group of alumni its history (since switching from a technology transfer program to a technology entrepreneurship program).Read more… |
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