What makes a winning pitch at a business plan competition?

What makes for a winning bus plan competition?
How do you differentiate between the bus plan and the pitch?
How do you get each of them right?
What are the secret ingredients to creating the winning ones?
Pitfalls to avoid?
Elements that must be included in the plan?
How to field questions during Q&A?
How married should you be to your financial model?
How important is it to size your market and what's the right way to do it?

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The Name of the Game is the Claim

Startups have many questions when it comes to patents: “Is my invention patentable?,” “What does my patent cover?,” and “How can we design around my competitor’s patent?” The answers to these and other questions are determined by the claims of the patent, which are found on the last pages of every U.S. patent. This presentation will discuss key aspects of interpreting patent claims in the U.S for taking a first pass at answering these questions.

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The Fundable Startup

How to move your startup into the 1% that get funded?

Fred brings his venture capital background and experience with hundreds of high-tech startup companies to a discussion about what it takes to get a startup funded. Startups must compete with other startups for the precious capital they need. This requires careful planning and strategies that will help a startup attract capital instead of having to chase it.

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Perfect Your Pitch

How to get your point across and get interest using the message map, a construct to enable investors to understand the essence of your product, service or business and state just one simple thing: Tell me more.

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What Angel Investors look for in your Pitch Deck

Research and preparation are the key when it comes to pitching to angel investors and your deck is your calling card. In this webinar we will share advice and expertise having reviewed hundreds of pitch decks as Founder and CEO of OSEA Angel Investors.

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Start Up Your Intellectual Property A Roadmap to IP Protection for Startups

Learn about the essential steps that startups should take to maximize their IP protection and factors to consider in developing an effective IP strategy.

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Startup Financing Trends: SAFEs vs Convertible Notes

What Financing structure is right for your startup?? This in-depth discussion will help founders understand the specifics and trends to help them decide between SAFEs and Convertible Notes. Arm yourself with the tools you need to succeed.

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Marketing is the growth engine for your business

In this webinar, Fractional CMO and 25+ year veteran in marketing and strategic planning will provide you an overview of the insights you need in order to develop an effective marketing strategy for your business.
Angelo will explore the importance of using research to help define your markets, ideal customers, market opportunities, sales strategies and competitive offensive and defensive strategies.
Topics of exploration, along with case study examples, will include:
• Leveraging insights to establish brand strategy, brand values, brand promise, positioning and communications messaging.
• Identifying your customer’s decision journey and how it impacts your marketing communications strategy.
• Using your competitors to identify opportunity gaps in the market
• Determining demand for your product/service
• Key elements in building an effective growth plan

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Key Intellectual Property Agreements for Startups

Intellectual property (IP) is usually one of a startup’s most valuable assets, and it is important to protect the IP in the startup’s agreements with employees, consultants, contractors, vendors, and partners. This presentation will discuss various important aspects of such agreements of which a startup should be aware to protect against loss of its IP.

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Strategic Financial Planning

In this webinar, I will introduce you to a chaotic math principle used to nail future-looking revenue projections (requiring only 8th grade math). Then, we will break down into practical steps the process of building labor plans, marketing plans and capital plans that are scalable for fast-growth startups.

Note: this seminar is not HR management, advertising design or investor pitch training. There are plenty of resources that teach those things. This seminar draws on skills used in Finance to enable you to afford great people & marketing and know when you will need to raise money to grow.

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Investor Acquisition Marketing

How to attract, engage, and convert investors using scalable marketing channels.

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Developing Superior Boards for your Company

Great boards help to make great companies. Dave Berkus, who is considered an expert on board service, has served on over forty boards, public and private as well as non-profit. His short course covers duties, liabilities, payment methods, and strength gains from use of governance boards. He looks at it from the viewpoint of company leaders, investors, and outside board members. He has delivered this course to groups around the world.

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Accounting and Finance Considerations for Startups

Regardless of what stage of the business lifecycle your company is in, having clean books and an efficient tax structure is critical to understanding where you are and where you are going.

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