ABOUT THIS EVENT

Event Category

Business & Technology

Event Overview

I will teach where good ideas come from all the way to the business pitch leading to investor funding.

The learning objectives are:

Definitions of innovation and leadership. All successful business ideas come from solving an important problem and knowing how to lead the enterprise.

Change is the source of ALL entrepreneurial ideas and entrepreneurship.
- how do innovative people behave and view change?
- what activities do innovative people partake in leading to innovations?
- what makes for a good idea?

- elements of a fundable idea
@ definition of the change.
@ identifying stakeholders/customers by change element.
@ value/risk by stakeholder - who wins and who loses?
@ developing the go to market model with defined value chain.
@ approaching the top 1-3, lead users/customers.
@ pricing the offering - segmentation.
@ scaling the offering - segmentation.
@ developing the customer model - intimacy or transactional.
@ developing the profit and loss (e.g., P&L) statement.
@ conceiving the operational plan - delivering the innovation via the supply chain

- Writing the business plan
- Preparing the investor pitch
- Practicing giving the pitch
- Finding the investors
@ Family &Friends
@ Angels
@ High Net Worth People
@ Strategic Investors - firms
@ VC/ PEs
- Giving "The First Pitch"
- Practicing "The Pitch"
- Closing the deal

What to Bring

Note Books

Minimum age

All ages welcome

What's Provided

Book on topic for sale at $20 per copy

Location