ACS ERC Showcase East Event happening April 9, 2014 Register Now!

This Wednesday is the ACS Entrepreneurial Resource Center 2014 Showcase East event, featuring the chemistry, management teams, and value propositions of 19 exciting chemical start-ups that are looking for investments and/or strategic partners.  The companies offer a broad range of chemistries involving materials, scientific instruments, therapeutic candidates, diagnostic devices, and cleantech products.  I’ve attached a Program Agenda for your review and use.

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DAY Program (Wednesday, April 9, 2014 from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM (EDT):

If you’d like to participate live and view the presentations, please register at ACS ERC 2014 Showcase East Registration.  It’s free!  Here are the directions: Hilton Garden Inn Boston/Waltham, 450 Totten Pond Road, Waltham, MA 02451. Scroll down to see names and types of companies that are participating in the business competition or click here to view.

If you can’t make it, but would like to join us online, please use the following link:ACS ERC 2014 Showcase East Virtual Participation Link.

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EVENING Program (Wednesday, April 9, 2014 from 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM (EDT):

There is a reception and evening program at the headquarters of Nova Biomedical Corporation, 200 Prospect Street, Waltham MA, 02254-9141. It’s also free to attend!   If you’d like to attend, please register at ACS ERC 2014 Showcase East - Evening Program.

Thanks for considering this event, and we hope you can join us!

With very best regards,

Ken

Kenneth J. Polk, Esquire

Innovation Counsel | Administrator to the ACS Entrepreneurial Resources Center

American Chemical Society

1155 16th Street NW

Washington, D.C. 20036

The ACS Vision:  Improving people's lives through the transforming power of chemistry

  ACS ERC 2014 Showcase East Final Program Entrepreneurial Presenters uploaded by Jennifer Maclachlan

@pidguy's true story of developing & marketing an environmental instrumentation company: a forty year perspective

Join us on the ACS Division of Small Chemical Businesses Program Track at the ACS National Meeting in New Orleans to hear @pidguy's *true story*

26 - Developing and marketing an environmental instrumentation company: A forty year perspective

Jack N. Driscoll, PID Analyzers, LLC, Sandwich, MA 02563, United States

HNU Systems, Inc., was founded by Driscoll & Spaziani in December 1973, intending to develop a new technology, photoionization detection (PID), for the analysis of environmental pollutants. We went to NIOSH in Cincinnati to explore potential uses of PID in industrial hygiene. During our visit, a scientist at NIOSH said, "If you had a portable instrument that would measure vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) at 1 ppm, we would be very interested." We went to a gas company the next day to get a lecture bottle of VCM and that afternoon we had a VCM monitor. A working prototype portable (battery operated) PID was built for the AIHCE show and, two months later, we got our first order from BFG. Once the evaluation period was over, we received an order for 50 units from BFG. In addition, BFG licensed their process for manufacturing VCM worldwide and included photoionization as the method of choice for VCM monitoring. We were off and running with VCM for the first few years. The next 35 years included rapid growth and then contraction as the economic times and markets changed. A number of years of economic struggles was followed by reorganizing and forming a new Company, PID Analyzers. Since bank financing has become more difficult in the past decade, PID has reverted to self funding to continue growing. These financial issues along with changing sources for parts will be discussed in detail.

Tuesday, April 9, 2013 11:15 AM
True Stories of Success from Chemical Entrepreneurs (08:00 AM - 11:50 AM)
Location: DoubleTree by Hilton New Orleans
Room: Crescent B

American Chemical Society members who were registered for the New Orleans Spring meeting can access the full presentation here with their ACS login. Otherwise ACS members and nonmembers can access this and all the Presentations on demand from #ACSNOLA with a paid subscription. See this link for pricing info. 

@pidgirl's Sunday at #ACSPhilly

Will you be at #ACSPhilly on Sunday August 19, 2012? Stop in at 8am for a full day of entrepreneurial programming brought to you by the Small Chemical Businesses Division of the American Chemical Society. Commencing four days of technical programming with flagship SCHB programming: True Stories of  Success from Chemical Entrepreneurs and concluding with Terahertz Spectroscopy moves from the laboratory to the commercial sector, this technical program promises to offer something for each entrepreneurial spirited individual in attendance. 

I'll be greeting at the Sunday SCHB program-you'll find me outside the door at the Grand Ballroom Salon I & II, Philadelphia Courtyard Downtown Hotel, 21 N.Juniper St. I won't be telling my true story this time around. I got to take the podium at the Spring National Meeting and my recorded presentation is available here. 

Just after a combined true stories and best practices panel is the Marketing & Technical Sales for startups and growing businesses designed as a how to workshop addressing marketing on a tight budget to business development skills for technical entrepreneurs. 

Then as if this Sunday programming couldn't get any better, comes the symposium that I organized and am presiding over: How small businesses grow and increase sales using social media featuring Ken Grant, dubbed by fellow Delawareans as *The Godfather of Social Media*.

Join us: listen, learn and participate in the Small Chemical Businesses Division of the American Chemical Society technical program at the Fall National Meeting in Philly. Program highlights are available in the August issue of the Small Chem Biz Newsletter here.