University Technology Commercialization Institute

The Stratford Group, Inc. is the professional business resource supporting the University Technology Commercialization Institute, a Delaware Corporation created as an educational non-profit. Stratford is a team of experienced business executives, investors, and marketing and finance professionals. Our experienced team provides FREE new concept evaluation and analysis, corporate design, and continuing management counsel to university (and corporate) administrators, innovators, and inventors. We help you successfully commercialize your technology.

The Stratford Group, Inc., was founded in New York City in 1973 as a marketing and business consulting firm with international Fortune 100 clients (see below). In 1998, the firm was asked to evaluate several dozen new and exciting technologies at a large, Midwestern research university to determine their relative value and commercialization potential. Since that successful beginning, the Development Team has accepted university and corporate engagements by invitation or referral and actively participated in the creation and continued guidance of scores of successful new companies formed to commercialize selected University and Corporate Technologies!

2013 -- The Stratford Group's Fifteenth Year --

as a Leading Private Technology Commercialization Resource.

Supported by Foundations, Corporations, Financial Institutions, and Individual Investors, Stratford Team Members are experienced business professionals in a broad spectrum of business disciplines. Many are Angel Investors, Bankers, and/or Venture Capitalists. As a result, Stratford is a source of seed capital, confidential financial and marketing planning assistance, and other support for the creation and development of companies with proprietary university or corporate technologies. Stratford also provides specialized, confidential research and business counsel to assist corporations and universities in the establishment of more successful commercialization alliances, licensing and tech transfer programs.

Additional Stratford services include experienced mentoring of each new company's management team (and their advisers) in essential business and financial disciplines including:

How To Design a Successful Business From Scratch
What Each of Your Corporate Officers Must Know -- NOW
Seed Capital - Where, When and How To Get It
When and How To Get And Use Venture Capital
How And What To Present To Angel Investors
Marketing Planning - How To Do It Effectively From Day 1
How To Write A Presentation Document That Attracts Investors
Legal Requirements and Essential Legal Forms For Startups
How To Do Successful New-Product Branding
How to Position Your Product To Commercialize Successfully
Patents? When? How? Why? Why not?
How to Negotiate University Licensing Agreements
How To Prepare For A Public Offering - Is It For You?
Mergers and Acquisitions - How To Analyze, Value and Negotiate
How To Manage Your Company - Public and/or Private
How To Find And Hire Your Most Important Team Members
How to Finance A Sustainable, Public Benefit Project

Since 1998, The Stratford Group, Inc., and its experienced team of successful business professionals and investors, has been The Rosetta Stone providing effective communications and successful support tools that link business interests, the financial community, and academia together more closely and more productively to create and nurture successful new businesses built with university and corporate technologies.

A Stratford Team Founding Member will visit with you (by phone, email, or in person) and discuss, review and evaluate your technology confidentially. Team Members will help you assemble your new company's management, assist you with the design and positioning of your new product(s), and provide the financial resources necessary to create and build a successful business. If desired, The Stratford Team also will provide experienced, on-site (and/or remote), management guidance as long as needed. Additionally, Stratford provides relationships and introductions to the most powerful and supportive international business resources in finance and corporate development.

Every Stratford Team Executive is a successful entrepreneur. Each brings special knowledge from personal business successes in large corporations, small startups, or both. Each person is highly skilled with hands-on experience in one or more of the following business disciplines: accounting and finance, venture capital, biotechnology, consumer products creation and marketing, computer systems and computer software, government relations, fast food (QSR), franchising, electronics, health care, optics, manufacturing technology, bioengineering, medical and biotech instrumentation, pharmaceuticals, hospitality and communications. Team members have successfully licensed technologies from universities and are familiar with the processes and legalities and they can advise new companies on the mechanics that have proved to be most successful.

Among the Fortune 500 companies for whom the firm's team members have provided marketing consulting and new product development services are Colgate, Bristol-Myers Squibb, US Steel, Procter & Gamble, Pillsbury, McDonald's, Kellogg, AT&T, Coca-Cola, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Chrysler Corporation, General Instrument, DOD, DOE, and more. New businesses created, developed and managed by team members that culminated in a public offering include biotechnology, computer software, medical instrumentation, consumer products, and specialized marketing services companies.

Several Stratford-developed and/or managed companies also were acquired after their IPOs by Kodak, Du Pont, and Berkshire-Hathaway.

State Government engagements include new business and economic development assignments for the legislatures and governors of New York, California, Washington, Nevada, and Arizona.

Send us a personal email at info@stratford-group.com. We'd be delighted to help. There is no obligation. All relationships and services are always confidential.