Héctor Ramos

Advanced Workshop "Starting and Building a High Growth Venture"

This weekend, the CIAPR and Grupo Guayacán are hosting an advanced workshop aimed for entrepeneurs, any one who is interested in improving their business or founding one. This is a short adaptation of the Entrepreneurship Development Program from the MIT Sloan School of Management, valued at $8,800.00. This is a great chance to connect and network with local entrepeneurs and investors.


Guayacán is known as the group behind the EnterpriZe competition.


 


Dates: October 3rd & 4th, 2009
Place: Colegio de Ingenieros, Hato Rey
* This is a 16 hours general credits workshop for CIAPR members.

 


















Grupo Guayacán, Inc. and the “Colegio de Ingenieros y Agrimensores de Puerto Rico” cordially invites you to the Advanced Workshop “Starting and Building a High Growth Venture”.


High Growth Venture entrepreneurship is considered a key growth driver for many countries’ economies. Today, engineers and scientists look to generate innovative solutions and technology that could result in an entrepreneurial venture, yet the vast bulk of tech based entrepreneurship initiatives fail.

Understanding the unique challenges and opportunities of tech-based entrepreneurship is essential for converting many of these efforts into real business opportunities.

View the Program Syllabus


















Registration Fee


Early Bird Registration (Due date: September 30th, 2009)
$100.00

Regular Registration (After September 30th, 2009)
$115.00

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Agenda

Saturday - October 3rd:

8:00 - 9:00       


  • Registration, breakfast, networking, start building your teams


9:00 - 10:30


  • Introduction:  The Economics of Innovation & Entrepreneurship

  • The Entrepreneurial Model: Opportunity Identification & Shaping, Resources, People


10:30 - 11:00


  • Coffee Break, continue networking - finalize teams


11:00 - 12:30


  • Identifying and Developing the Opportunity


              - Identifying the Customer and their needs
              - Developing and defining the compelling Value Proposition
              - Validating the Opportunity - Market & Competitive Analysis
              - Shaping the Opportunity  
              - Disruptive Innovation as the source of huge opportunity
              - Sustaining vs. Disruptive Innovation -
                    Picking the right customer - or “non - customer”
              - Technology as the enabler - not the solution

12:30 - 2:00


  • Lunch - During lunch the entrepreneurial teams will work together to commence identifying & shaping the business opportunity before them and developing their compelling value proposition.


2:00 - 3:30


  • Entrepreneurial Sales & Marketing for High Growth - I


              - Market Segmentation - a different approach
              - Entry and Growth Strategy -
                     target markets and sequential market development
              - Competitive advantage & product positioning

3:30 - 4:30

  • Coffee Break & Work Session - Teams will continue to develop their opportunity and commence developing a sales & marketing strategy.


4:30 - 6:00


  • Entrepreneurial Sales & Marketing for High Growth - II


              - Sales, Marketing & Distribution for Disruptors
              - Strategy and Positioning
              - Advanced topics in Marketing for High Growth

6:00 - Whenever!


  • Teams will further develop their Sales & Marketing Strategy - Market Analysis, Positioning, Initial Target Markets, Growth Strategy & Sales & Marketing Channel Development.  Start preparing Power Point Presentations


 
Sunday - October 4th:
           
8:00 - 9:00 


  • Breakfast & Work Session - Refine thoughts and conclusions to date.  Incorporate into Power Point Presentations


9.00 - 10:00


  • Entrepreneurial Leadership & Team Building


10:00 - 10:45 


  • Coffee Break & Work Session - Teams continue to build and refine presentations


10:45 - 12:15


  • Building and Executing the Business Model


              - Characteristics of successful business models
              - Shaping business models over time
              - Emergent Strategy & Managing Risk
 
12:15 - 1:30 


  • Lunch & Keynote Speaker


1:30-3:00


  • Financing the High Growth Venture


               - Facts & fairy tales of new venture financing
               - Challenges and opportunities
               - Angels, Devils and everything in-between
 
3:00 - 3:45


  • Coffee Break and Work Session - Finalize Presentation


3:45 - 5:30


  • Team Presentations, Judging and Wrap-up


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