EMTM Presents:

“The Opportunity of a Lifetime Comes Along Every Two Weeks: Thoughts and Insights on Identifying and Capitalizing on Entrepreneurial Opportunities”

Robert J. Borghese, JD
Founder and Principal,
Miro Capital Partners, LLC
Lecturer, The Wharton School
University of Pennsylvania

Thursday, November 5, 2009
6:30-8:30 pm
The Penn Club
30 West 44th Street
New York, NY 10036

Bob Borghese, a corporate and transactional attorney in private practice in Philadelphia, specializes in advising emerging growth companies on new venture formation, strategic planning, debt and equity financings, corporate mergers and acquisitions, strategic alliances and general corporate matters.

Bob is the founder and principal of Miro Capital Partners, LLC, a private venture investment firm with interests in telecom, interactive learning, software, and medical device companies. He also founded Stonehedge Funding, LLC, a real merchant bank, with related real estate development and investment partnerships.

Since 1992, Bob has been a member of the faculty of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania where he teaches Legal and Transactional Aspects of Entrepreneurship and The Art of the Technology Deal in the MBA, Executive MBA and EMTM programs. He is the author of M&A from Planning to Integration: Executing Acquisitions and Increasing Shareholder Value, published by McGraw-Hill in English and Chinese language versions. He has appeared as a guest on CNBC’s Power Lunch and CNNfnC’s Money Gang to discuss corporate mergers and acquisitions. In addition, he has lectured extensively on the formation and organization of new business ventures, venture capital and private equity financings, corporate strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions, and strategic alliances.

Bob is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He has an MA in economics from King’s College, Cambridge University, England, and a BS in finance from the Wharton School.

In a world where entrepreneurial opportunity abounds and, despite a deep recession, start-up capital still flows, many aspiring entrepreneurs fail to identify and capitalize on entrepreneurial opportunities that surround them. Most often what they lack is not courage, confidence or perseverance, but an understanding of where to search for, and how to recognize and capitalize on, entrepreneurial opportunity.

Drawing on years of experience observing and advising entrepreneurs, launching new entrepreneurial ventures, and thinking about and teaching entrepreneurship, Bob will lead a discussion of five business paradigms where there is scope for entrepreneurial opportunity. His discussion uses these paradigms to offer aspiring entrepreneurs frameworks for searching for, recognizing, structuring and financing entrepreneurial opportunities.

Prof. Borghese teaches an EMTM management elective, Legal and Transactional Aspects of Entrepreneurship, which uses the context of early stage companies, and provides perspective on how to use the law strategically to manage risk, deploy resources, and maximize shareholder value.

EMTM Presents is for anyone interested in trends and issues at the intersection of technology and business. The evening includes the opportunity to meet and talk with EMTM faculty, students and alumni at an informal reception that precedes the lecture and Q&A.

We welcome your interest, and invite you to learn more about the Executive Master’s in Technology Management program.

Leadership in the management of technology and innovation in business.

Executive Master's in Technology Management (EMTM)
An MSE offered by Penn Engineering
Co-sponsored by the Wharton School
University of Pennsylvania