These educational and networking opportunities are extremely valuable!
Entrepreneurship Workshop Series
FIU’s Pino Global Entrepreneurship Center’s popular Workshop Series promise to equip you with and deliver practical tools and real world knowledge from experts in each field.
Spring 2010 Workshops
“Developing a Killer Business Plan”
“Creating Breakthrough Products”
“Business Plans that Raise Money”
“Going to Market in a Customer Centric, Social World”
“How to Fund Your Company & Bring it to Life”
“The FIU Pino Shark Tank”
All workshops are held from 9:00a.m. – 4:00p.m.
at
FIU’s College of Business Complex
Special Events Center, CBC 232
Modesto A. Maidique Campus
11200 SW 8th Street
Miami, Florida 33199
Fee (per session):
$95 – General Admission.
$75 – FIU Students, Alumni, Faculty and Staff.
To register for a workshop, please click here.
REMAINING WORKSHOPS:
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
“Creating Breakthrough Products and Services”
Speakers:
Rade Zrilic, Chief Executive Officer, Technia North America
Robert H. Hacker, Managing Director, GH Capital Partners
Learn how to analyze the market through technology landscaping and product profiling. Assess intellectual property (IP) by analyzing partners, suppliers, competitors and M&A candidate. Find a new market for existing technology (or a new technology for an existing market). Build IP barriers around existing and future products and processes while leveraging regulatory constraints.
Additionally, develop your product definition to be more aligned with your customer’s needs. Discover the tools to learn how customers perceive your product or service. Learn the Porter’s 5 Forces of Industry and how to create competitive advantage.
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
“Business Plans that Raise Money”
Speaker:
Robert H. Hacker, Managing Director, GH Capital Partners
Uncover the financial health of your business by using an industry-tested and strategy-driven method. You will learn one of the most effective tools for understanding your business’s potential and its driving forces.
Friday, April 23, 2010
“Going to Market in a Customer Centric, Social World”
Speaker:
John C. Fleming, Founder and CEO, Outcome Labs, LLC
Learn how to develop an effective “go to market” strategy that is optimized for your company and market. You will learn about the elements of a focused and affordable marketing plan. You will see how to leverage the latest in social media to have conversations with your customers and people who influence your potential customers. You will learn how to develop a channel strategy to sell your products and services that will give you the widest market coverage at the lowest possible cost.
Friday, May 21, 2010
“How to Fund Your Company and Bring it to Life”
Speaker:
Camilo A. Mejia, Associate, Hunton & Williams, LLP
Learn about the available sources of funding for your start up, how to present to these sources and what their expectations are for market opportunity, growth and financial return. Learn the different alternatives to form a legal entity for a start up and the governance issues that must be addressed.
Friday, June 18, 2010
“The FIU Pino Shark Tank”
Are you ready to launch your business? Consult with the experts! The FIU Shark Tank is your opportunity to have your start up’s business plan reviewed and critiqued by our panel local entrepreneurs and investors. Reconstruct and strengthen your plan to provide your company a blueprint towards success.
Please note that while everyone is welcome to attend, to participate and have your business plan reviewed by our panel it is required that you attend all 5 workshops in the Spring 2010 Entrepreneurship Workshop Series.
To participate in the “FIU Pino Shark Tank,” please submit an executive summary of your business plan to entrepreneurship@fiu.edu no later than Friday, May 28th!
FIU’s University Park Campus, College of Business Complex,
Special Events Room, 2nd Floor
Florida International University
11200 SW 8th Street, Miami, FL 33199
Special Pricing Offers:
$95 for each session.
FIU Alumni Association members &
FIU Students:
$75 per session
To register for an Entrepreneurship Workshop, please click here.
For more information, please send an e-mail to: entrepreneurship@fiu.edu.
