Our First Masterclass is Now Live!
Imagine a successful biotech entrepreneur tells you everything he knows. This is exactly what this masterclass is about. In twelve video lessons, serial biotech entrepreneur Ulf Grawunder shares with you his learnings on the way to selling his company for more than one billion U.S. dollars.
Video Lessons
This masterclass includes twelve video lessons, each between ten and thirty minutes long. You can complete them at your own speed. Think about this like a one-on-one mentoring session with a worldclass entrepreneur, where you walk away with actionable items for your entrepreneurial venture.
Workbook
The workbook is the companion for the video lessons. It summarizes each lesson with a short description, highlights and end-of-chapter questions and helps you navigate the most important concepts. The video lessons go into much more detail than this workbook, so they are complements, not substitutes.
What kind of project is this?
Entrepreneurs have fascinating journeys and valuable insights but rarely get to share them in a way that is actionable for future generations. This masterclass series captures the knowledge of globally successful entrepreneurs in high tech, life sciences and deep tech and makes it available to students, startup founders and seasoned entrepreneurs in Switzerland. Switzerland has over 280,000 registered students and 135 new startups per day (Swissinfo, 2023) that long for mentorship by experienced entrepreneurs. New multimedia formats such as the masterclass can fill this need.
The first pilot masterclass in the series, Building Biotech Businesses, features Swiss biotech unicorn founder Ulf Grawunder. The soft launch to a specialist audience takes place on May 30 2024 at the startup days in Bern, Switzerland. This masterclass series is an ongoing project that will eventually make 50+ masterclasses available for free.
This masterclass is supported by the Gebert-Rüf Stiftung and created by Manuel Stagars and 8GR8 Films | Story-Driven Science.
Who is this masterclass for?
This masterclass is useful for anyone in biotech or life sciences, for students and entrepreneurs already active in these fields, and anyone with an interest in building a successful biotech company. Ulf shares his personal insights and learnings along his entrepreneurial journey in the following areas:
- Making the jump from academia to entrepreneurship
- The ins and outs of founding the first biotech startup from his research project
- Motivation and purpose that keep him going as an entrepreneur
- Mindsets and skills he finds useful in entrepreneurship
- Finance and fundraising in his biotech startups
- How he approaches innovation, R&D, and prototyping
- How production and distribution works in biotech
- How biotech entrepreneurs can market themselves and how to network
- Putting a price on an innovation in the biotech sector
- How to manage and motivate the team
- … and many more learnings along the way of building three successful companies
There is also a bonus chapter with a live coaching session, where Ulf coaches the startup NXI Therapeutics about questions of fund raising, organizational structure, and finding the right team members to grow the business.
Contact us
Do you have any questions about this masterclass? We look forward to hearing from you. Just reach out and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible.