| Description: | Who: FastTrac Tech is the course for people who are serious about starting and growing their technology companies.
What: FastTrac Tech is a two-phase, multi-session program created by technology entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs, like you.
Delivered locally by seasoned entrepreneurs in the community, FastTrac Tech's hands-on program where you will use your business as a case study, giving you the opportunity to put proven business practices to work in today's environment.
We will help you look at all aspects of your venture through the investor's scrutinizing eyes. In the first phase of the course you will weigh the risks against the opportunities, determine what potential problems exist, and decide whether these can be eliminated or minimized. Then, you'll have the tools to write a Business Plan that addresses present and future financing needs.
Through FastTrac Tech, you'll learn with a group of peers, entrepreneurs like yourself, who are working to improve and grow their businesses successfully. You'll also work with certified facilitators, people with real entrepreneurial business experience, who understand the challenges of operating and growing entrepreneurial technology-based business ventures. In this supportive environment, you'll incubate new business ideas, uncover areas that need reinforcing, build an entrepreneurial network, and establish a foundation from which to make future decisions.
| Feasibility Planning
· The Technology Entrepreneur
· Feasibility Introductions
· Market Research
· Model Business Feasibility Checklist
· Technology Feasibility Checklist
· Next Steps | Business Planning
· Business Plan Basics and Writing
· Management and Organization Plan
· Product/Service Plan
· Marketing Plan
· Operating and Control Systems Plan
· Financial Plan
· Growth Plan
· Finalizing the Business Plan
· Future Steps |
Who will be speaking?
September 27th
Explorring Entrepreneurship | Anne Hach
Executive Director, The Key Entrepreneur Development Center |
October 4th
Defining the Target Market | Phil Alexander
President & CEO, BrandMuscle, Inc |
October 11th
Conducting Market Research and Anaylsis | Adele Luta
Founder & Managing Partner, Eleda International Ltd. |
October 18th
Testing Your Business Concept | Brian Deegan
CEO, Knotice Ltd |
October 25th
Entering and Capturing the Market | Mark Saffran
President & CEO, MDG Medical Inc.
Dick Erickson
President, Strategic Partners, Inc. |
November 1st
Planning for Financial Success | Ron Cohen,
Partner Emeritus, Cohen & Company, Ltd. |
November 8th
Building and Compensating Your Organizational Team | Jeff Nischwitz
Vice President of Business Development, CBiz, Inc. |
November 15th
Protecting the Business and Your Intellectual Property | Warren Goldberg
Interim CEO, CardioInsight Technologies, Inc.
Hahn Loesher & Parks, LLP |
November 22nd
Identifying Funding and Working with Investors | Lynn Ann Gries
Chief Investment Officer, JumpStart Inc
Pat Valente
Deputy Director, Technology Division, Ohio DOD
Mike DeAloia
Tech Czar, City of Cleveland |
November 29th
Managing Cash and Operating Your Business | Scott Rickert
President & CEO, Nanofilm, Ltd. |
November 30th
Graduation | Class, Funders & Sponsors |
YOU NEED FASTTRAC!
When:
| Date (Days) | Time | Location | Instructor | Fee |
Program
09/27/06 - 11/29/06
(Every Wednesday) | 6:30PM - 9:00PM | Corporate College East
4400 Richmond Road
Warrensville Hts | Bettie Sogor
President, BioBiz
Navigator, LLC | $195.00
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Graduation
11/30/06
(Thursday) | 6:00-8:00 PM |
How: For more information or to register please call 216-987-5875.
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