In the fiscal year 2024, the New Jersey university’s Office for Research supported 162 new inventions, 123 patents, and 104 active startups. The journey of any invention from inspirational spark to marketable product is complicated under the best of circumstances—even more so when the inventor hails from a university campus. To bring their best ideas out of a lab and into the hands of the public, such founder-researchers must learn a set of skills they might struggle to pick up in the hallowed halls of academia: the art of securing capital.