David Vintinner

Part-time MBA, 2010

“Before coming to NYU Stern, I had countless business ideas that never got off of the ground,” says David Vintinner.  “That is the reason I applied.”  David works in education administration, and had considered starting a consultancy, but wanted first to broaden his experience to handle all aspects of his own business. “I am gathering the tools needed to take a potential invention or business and bring it into reality in a profitable and useful way,” he explains.

As a part-time MBA student in NYU Stern’s Langone Program, David participated last year in Stern’s Innovation & Entrepreneurship Lab, a rigorous, 12-week seminar series that teaches students, faculty and alumni how to hone their business ideas into marketable innovations.  David appreciates the insight he gained from Stern faculty members, like Professor Dean Alderucci, chief operation officer and assistant general counsel in Cantor Fitzgerald's Global Innovation Division, who led the intensive training: “Dean Alderucci comes from a solid entrepreneurial background, holding scores of actionable patents.  He provided me with a useful conceptual test for which ideas are worth pursuing, and also a process to follow while developing a new idea both for a patent application and for use after a patent is obtained.”  After finishing the Innovation & Entrepreneurship Lab, David has some entrepreneurial plans of his own. “I’m aiming to cultivate a partnership with other innovators to develop related patents around data handling and processing systems and bundle them into profitable licenses.”