Event ID # 55046
Date:
Friday, September 5, 2008
 Time:
8:30 am - 1:00 pm
Event:

FountainBlue's Funding Road Trip: Your Positioning
Host:

FountainBlue
Location:

(Palo Alto)   Google Map
Cooley Godward Kronish, LLP
3175 Hanover Street, Palo Alto, CA 94304-1130
Contact:
Linda Holroyd		 Phone:
650-996-3987
Email:
info@fountainblue.biz
Website:
http://www.fountainblue.biz/fundingroadtrip.html
Price:
$80-90 for 2 entrepreneurs.
Full details:
FountainBlue cordially invites Early-Stage, Funding-Bound Clean Energy, High Tech and Life Science Entrepreneurs and Intrapreneurs to attend our 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.

This workshop entitled 'Your Positioning' is the first of a three-workshop series to be conducted on the first Friday of each month for three consecutive months, once in the spring and once in the fall. The workshop dates and topics for this series are below:
* September 5 - Your Positioning
* October 3 - Your Pitch to Investors
* November 7 - Your Meeting with Investors
This particular workshop on 'Your Positioning' will focus on working with entrepreneurs through think through their company's offerings as well as the market opportunity, and then communicate that opportunity succinctly and compellingly to strategic investors.

In this workshop and the other workshops in the series, entrepreneurs will partner with other entrepreneurs in non-competing spaces, 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
10:00 Break
10:15 The Positioning
11:45 Lunch Break and Networking
12:15 Do It Yourself Customer Research, featuring Dave Kaplow, The FactPoint Group.
12:45 Workshop Debrief Session, with Feedback Given and Homework Assigned
1:00 Adjourn and Networking

More information, including testimonials, is available online http://www.fountainblue.biz/fundingroadtrip.html.

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