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Session 1: Show Me the Money
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| Finding funding for a startup company is possible;
you just have to know where to look. Expert presenters will offer insights
and information for start-up ventures. |
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Session 2: Protect Your Brilliant
Idea
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| Protecting your idea may be the single most
important step in this process. But do you need to? And how? Learn practical
information from speakers representing new product development and patent
law/intellectual property. |
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Session 3: Secrets of Successful
Web Based Companies
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| Web-based companies can be very lucrative.
Is your idea a good candidate for such a business model? Hear from successful,
web-based entrepreneurs. |
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Session 4: Is Opportunity
Knocking?
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| Learn how to recognize and evaluate a good
idea, whether it’s yours or someone else’s. |
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Session 5: Creativity and
Innovation: Unleash your inner genius!
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| Don’t think you have a creative mind? Creativity
can be learned and you might just be untapped potential. Come for this
interactive session and learn
how, from serial entrepreneurs. |
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Session 6: Scientists, Engineers
and Medical Professionals: What's the Connection to Entrepreneurship?
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| Entrepreneurship is not restricted to business
majors. In fact, many of the world’s most famous products and services were
first conceived of and commercialized by scientists, engineers, and medical
professionals. Examples of some of these famous entrepreneurs and their
innovations will be briefly described. Then two Villanova graduates, one
a chemist and another, a mechanical engineer, will tell about how they became
entrepreneurs by leveraging their technology backgrounds to launch and grow
successful businesses. |
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Session 7: Present Your Idea
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This session, offered at four separate
times, provides attendees with two unique opportunities; either as an
audience member, watching others present their ideas to see how
it's done, or as an active participant, presenting an idea. During
this session, student presenters will address, and receive immediate
feedback from a panel of experienced entrepreneurs. Note:
- All attendees to this session, (including the panel) will be
required to sign a non-disclosure agreement.
- Presentation guidelines
are available for student presenters.
- The number of students who may actually present their ideas will
be limited.
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Session 8: Chicken Soup for
the Innovator
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| Lessons from the school of hard knocks. Developing
an idea and bringing it to market requires creativity, planning, stamina,
perseverance, confidence, vision, energy, etc., etc., etc…, hear lessons learned
from experienced and successful innovators. |
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Session 9: What is Business
Planning?
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| A business plan is the laboratory of the mind
where the business opportunity is organized and made real in a way that
the entrepreneur can communicate it to others – potential team members,
partners, investors, employees, government, etc. Proper planning can prevent
disaster as well as make it possible to capture the imaginations (and resources)
of others. This session outlines the requirements of a plan and shows how
to write one. |
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Session 10: Getting your
Business Started: The Nuts and Bolts
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| You have this great idea – now what should
you do? Obviously, GET STARTED but…how? Get direction and learn practical
suggestions from successful business professionals |
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Session 11: Find a
Mentor to Find Success
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| Understand the value of a mentor, what to look for and how to find one. Learn what you can expect from a good mentoring relationship, and appreciate expectations from the mentor’s perspective.
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