SVASE Event: 'Startup-U EB/WC: (note NEW Date & Time!) Bill Joos: Perfecting Your Positioning! (Bonus: Top 10 Mistakes In Business Plans!)'
Date: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 At 11:30
Duration: 2 Hours
Contact Info:
Location: Administaff, 2999 Oak Road, Suite 200, Walnut Creek, CA 94597 http://www.administaff.com . Contact Name: Lowry Fenton Email: EBStartupU@gmail.com
URL: http://www.svase.org/index.php?option=com_extcalendar&Itemid=149&extmode=view&extid=77
Topic #1: Top 10 Mistakes in Business Plans!
"The business plan is the most important document you'll write as an entrepreneur or an established business. 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."
Topic #2: Perfecting Your Positioning!
Before you can pitch your company to raise funds or attract strategic partners and alliances, you've got to perfect your positioning. This seminar 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.
Speaker: Bill Joos is the principal of "Go To Market Consulting", based in Palo Alto. He works with early stage startups, venture capital firms and their portfolio clients.
Most recently he spent 6 years as the VP of Entrepreneur Development at Garage Technology Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm that he co-founded along with Guy Kawasaki. His reputation at Garage was that he provided their clients with effective, hands-on, action-oriented strategic and tactical mentoring and coaching.
Bill has worked with literally hundreds of early-to-mid stage startups and helped them polish and clarify their messages and refine their fund-raising and customer presentations; but his contributions to them extended well beyond being a "Pitch Doctor". He has mentored and coached them in go to market strategies, revenue and pricing optimization, business alliances, business development, partnerships, and marketing.
Over 15,000 entrepreneurs worldwide have attended conferences where Bill has been a featured keynote speaker on various entrepreneurial topics.
He has also held sales and marketing positions with a variety of companies, including IBM and as a VP at the software division of Apple Computer.
Popular FAQs regarding Startup-U:
What is the cost of this event?
A $5 (member) or $15 (affiliate/non-member) registration fee, plus a $1.50 credit card processing fee, includes event and lunch, available through advanced online registration. A $10 or $20 fee is collected at the door.
What is the format of a Startup-U event typically?
Each event begins with registration, a great lunch and networking from 11:30 - 11:40, followed by a very brief talk about SVASE and Startup-U. The host introduces a featured speaker and then the speaker runs the show; the exact format varies based on the speaker and that variety is what makes this event so exciting!
*** Please note the Newly Revised Schedule ***
11:30-11:40 Registration, Networking and Food
11:40-11:50 SVASE/Startup-U Overview, Introductions, Speaker Intro
11:50-1:20 Speaker Presentation and Interactive Q&A
1:20-1:30 Wrap-Up Action Items & Networking
With your help, we will start on time so the speaker can provide you with as much interactive information as possible! Please arrive before 11:40 to register!
Advanced registration ensures that everyone will
receive the subject specific hand outs!
Who should attend?
Startup entrepreneurs, anyone thinking about forming a startup, service providers, angels and VCs active in the Silicon Valley information tech and biotech entrepreneur communities. Past participants include:
Current and aspiring entrepreneurs
Venture Capitalists, Angels and other members of the funding community
Service Providers (e.g. human resources, contract programming, etc.)
Independent Consultants (e.g. sales, marketing, engineering, etc.)
Do I need to be a member of SVASE to attend this event?
Non-members and guests of members are welcome to attend any 2 SVASE Startup-U events. Afterwards, we recommend that non-members become members of SVASE. For more information on the benefits of joining SVASE, please visit our website at http://www.svase.org/site/Membership/index_html.You can also join at the event itself.
What if I have more questions?
Please contact the Host for this event: Lowry Fenton, EBStartupU@gmail.com
This event is co-sponsored by Administaff, http://www.administaff.com .
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