PROGRAMME OVERVIEW

The Technopreneurship Workshop is aimed at equipping working professionals with the necessary skills and knowledge to start new high-tech ventures. This is a 3-day intensive programme covering all essential areas of starting up a business, including Defining the Entrepreneurial Opportunity, Market and Competitor Analysis, Business Strategy Formulation and Organizing for Execution, Financial Projection, Business Plan Writing and Presentation Techniques.

The "hands-on, real-life" workshop will bring participants through the full-cycle of transforming ideas into a complete "actionable" business plan; ending with an opportunity to practise an "elevator pitch" to potential VCs and Angel Investors.

The programme will be a mix of lecture, discussions, group work and case analysis. On completion of the program, participants should know the key processes involved in starting a high tech business as well as the key aspects that need to be addressed in writing a detailed business plan to be considered by investors. Participants who decide to follow through to actually start a business can enroll in a follow-on, individually tailored mentoring program that NUS Entrepreneurship Centre will offer.

PRE-WORK

Participants will answer the following questions before beginning the workshop:

1. What is innovative about your idea?
2. Who is your customer - what is the market for your product?
3. What is your value proposition - what problem are you solving?
4. What is your sustainable competitive advantage - how will you compete?
5. How will your business make money - what is your business model?

Click here to download pre-work sheet.

TARGET AUDIENCE

Working professionals looking for necessary skills and knowledge to start new high-tech ventures. Participants attending the Workshop Program are expected to have already possessed some concrete business start-up ideas. However, those seeking to develop their ideas in the course of the Program are also welcomed.

EXPECTED OUTCOME

On completion of the program, participants should know the key processes involved in starting a high tech business as well as the key aspects that need to be addressed in writing a detailed business plan to be considered by investors. Participants who decide to follow through to actually start a business can enroll in a follow-on, individually tailored mentoring program that NUS Entrepreneurship Centre will offer.

DATE OF WORKSHOP

19-20 & 24 April 2004 (Mon-Tue & Sat), 9am - 5pm

VENUE

19-20 & 24 April 2004
Seminar Room 1, NUS Extension (Park Mall)
9 Penang Road, #10-08 Park Mall (opp Dhoby Ghaut MRT), Singapore 180261
Tel: (65) 6339-4560 / Fax: (65) 6338-8400

REGISTRATION FEE

Registration closes on 15 April 2004.

Click Here to Download Registration Form.

WORKSHOP MATERIALS

Each participant will receive a complete set of workshop materials covering the information and steps necessary to create a professional-level business plan.

CONTINUING SUPPORT

Participants will qualify for our ongoing mentoring program. This program will provide experienced mentors for qualifying participants to assist them with further development of their business plan.

CPD QUALIFICATION

Participants of the workshop can obtain up to 21 PDUs under the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) scheme by Professional Engineers Board, Singapore. For more details, please refer to http://www.peb.gov.sg/peb/html/cpdappa.html

CITPM CPC QUALIFICATION

For Certified IT Project Managers, participants can obtain up to 10 CPCs under the Continuing Professional Certification (CPC) scheme as part of the Certified IT Project Management Programme (CITPM) administered by the Singapore Computer Society (SCS), with the support of IDA.
For more details, please refer to http://www.scs.org.sg/CITPM_rec_up.php

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