Early-Stage, Funding-Bound
Clean Energy, High Tech and Life Science
Entrepreneurs and Intrapreneurs
are cordially invited to
FountainBlue’s Funding Road Trip
scheduled for
Friday, September 5,
8:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
at Cooley Godward Kronish, LLP
3175 Hanover Street in Palo Alto.
Register for $80-90 for 2 entrepreneurs at
https://secure.thriva.com/Reg/Form.aspx?IDTD=1007596&IDRPH=1059087
by Thursday, September 4 at noon.
FountainBlue is pleased by the great success of our first Funding Road Trip Series, and delighted to continue its three-month, funding preparation workshop for high tech, clean energy and life science entrepreneurs within Silicon Valley. Our workshop series is designed to help entrepreneurs think through their company’s offerings as well as the market opportunity, and then communicate that opportunity succinctly and compellingly to strategic investors.
Working in with partnership with fellow entrepreneurs in similar, non-competing spaces, participating entrepreneurs will have the opportunity to learn best practices and immediately apply these learnings to their own companies. Whether the entrepreneur is a serial entrepreneur, or someone who may be considering a future opportunity, everyone is sure to benefit from the information presented, the connections made and the peer-to-peer knowledge shared.
Agenda for the ‘Your Positioning’ Workshop:
8:30 Networking and Registration
9:00 Welcomes, Thank Yous and Introductions
9:15 Top Ten Mistakes in Business Plans
Your business plan is the most important document you'll write as an entrepreneur. It can be the ticket to funding, and interest from potential clients and partners. Learn what NOT to do so you can develop a hard-hitting, compelling business case for your company.
10:00 Break
10:15 The Positioning
Before you can pitch your company to raise funds or attract strategic partners and alliances, you've got to perfect your positioning. This session will provide you with a systematic approach to help you better determine your all important market definition and value propositions. This program features a hard-copy, walk-away tool that helps define these for a technology based start-up company. Participants will be taught how to use this tool which is based on a case-study example of a real startup
11:45 Lunch Break and Networking
12:15 Do It Yourself Customer Research, featuring Dave Kaplow, The FactPoint Group.
Walk away with five powerful and practical techniques from market research pros to validate your customers’ real pain points and the value of your painkiller.
12:45 Workshop Debrief Session, with Feedback Given and Homework Assigned
1:00 Adjourn and Networking |
