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March 29th, 2011

Announcing the 6th Annual Invention to Venture (I2V) Conference at the University of Vermont!

Date: Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Time: 11:30 to 5 p.m. (with mixer to follow 5 to 7 p.m.)

Location: Grand Maple Ballroom, 4th Floor Dudley H. Davis Center, University of Vermont

The University of Vermont is pleased to host the Sixth Invention to Venture Conference on Wednesday, April 13, 2011. I2V is a leading event that pulls together academic researchers, students, entrepreneurs and business leaders from across Vermont and from several Colleges and Universities.

The half day event has a great speakers and a few workshops focused on inspiring entrepreneurship, job creation, and economic growth. We are honored to announce that John Taylor, Vice President of Research of National Venture Capital Association, has agreed to speak this year. There are also two roundtable discussions planned on Vermont Entrepreneurship Resources and Lessons Learned.

As with all I2V events, our goal is to engage a wide range of participants from the university community as well as members of the surrounding business community. Please encourage your post-doctoral, graduate, and undergraduate students to attend. Presentations will focus on venture capital, marketing, intellectual property, business plans, and related topics. Guest speakers are experts drawn from the region.

The event will provide a fast-paced, half-day of practical information and networking that can help take your ideas to commercialization. I2V is a co-production of the Technology Commercialization Office at the University of Vermont, the Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies, and with the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA).
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Cost:

$5 – Students from any VT institution
$20 – All other registrations

Participant guide, lunch and a cash bar reception with Hors d’Oeuvres are included in the fee

Heliophor World Tour – Tokyo Reception

November 14th, 2010

89 North was proud to host a reception introducing the Heliophor to the Japanese market. We had an excellent turnout and the Heliophor was extremely well received. People were impressed by both the brightness and speed of the system.

Heliophor World Tour

November 14th, 2010

Well, the Heliophor World Tour has officially begun. We arrived in Tokyo last night no worse for the traveling. Heliophor seems to like Tokyo. Here he is waiting for the bus…

We have a pretty packed schedule but I hope to show Heliophor some of the sites. Stay tuned for more updates on the World Tour.

Nobel Prize in Medicine

October 8th, 2010

Congratulations to Drs. Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak for being awarded the Nobel Prize for their ground breaking work on telomeres. See the full article.

ASCB 2009

December 6th, 2009

The ASCB 2009 meeting starts tomorrow.  One interesting tidbit is that Twittering is banned at the meeting.  I am really unsure why that is though I plan on finding out.

We will be having our party on Monday.  This is a big opportunity to put our little company on the map.  I will try and keep everyone updated on what is happening during the show.

Until next time…

Everyone works at SfN

October 23rd, 2009

We take all hands on deck seriously here.

2009 Nobel Prize in Medicine Awarded

October 5th, 2009

Congratulations to Drs. Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak for being awarded the Nobel Prize for their ground breaking work on telomeres.  For a description of what telomeres do and why they are so critical click here.

Updates to the 89 North Website

September 30th, 2009

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Well, we’re back.  Sorry for taking so long between posts since I know that many of you hang on our every word ;-)

When we last talked, we were just finishing up the EMBO meeting.  Now, we are getting prepared for the Society for Neuroscience meeting to be held in Chicago, Il.  The booth is in and looks great.  Just waiting on a few other items and we will be ready to go.

We are incredibly excited for this show.  We will have an early prototype of our new light source as well as some new products that we will begin to sell that will nicely complement our existing product line.  Stay tuned for some announcements about these exciting additions.

As the title of this post suggests, we have made some changes to our website that are now live.  Some are obvious but the vast majority of them are “behind the scenes” changes designed to both allow us to better serve our customers and to add more update content as we continue to grow the site.  For example, we have updated our contact and support pages.  Now when you contact us through these pages, it will be automatically entered into our new shiny CRM system, allowing better and faster service on our end.

Well, that’s it for now.  Stay tuned for more changes over the next few weeks as we get ready for the show.

EMBO on Tuesday

September 1st, 2009

Well today is the last day. Things have picked up  nicely over the last day and a half, at least during the time there is anyone in the exhibit hall. We have made some good contacts and have received a positive response from some of the local dealers. That was the purpose of this trip so, mission accomplished.

We have also seen some fairly strange and interesting things here. One example is that in the Men’s Room at the conference center, there is a condom dispenser. Not sure a scientific meeting is where a condom machine would be the best placed.

 

Condom Machine

 

In a restaurant we ate at on Sunday, there was an amazing staircase to go upstairs. It was almost like a spiral ladder. Not to be taken after a few drinks.

 

Stair Case

 

Finally, here are some images of Amsterdam from our trip. We head home tomorrow. It will be good to get home.

 

 

How to stand out in a crowd…

September 1st, 2009

Check out http://www.bioopticsworld.com/index.html.  It’s a new ad campaign and the first of what we hope to be a series of these short snippets.  Let us know what you think.