Technopreneurship Workshop
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Creating a new business is a challenging and complex task. The road to entrepreneurial success is long, winding and strewn with pitfalls, obstacles and blind turns. The risks of starting a new business are high, as illustrated by the failure rates for new ventures. However, as is always the case, the rewards are commensurate with the risk: in addition to the psychic rewards of starting a business, witness the dominance of entrepreneurs in the Forbes 400 list.
Our New Venture Creation Workshop will equip you with what you need to grow a winning business in today's harsh and competitive entrepreneurial environment. The 3-day workshop will be conducted by top-notch industry veterans, venture capitalists and managers with years of experience in this area. You will learn the right way to find a profitable idea, write a winning business plan and find capital to start your company.
This course is a true hands-on workshop, not a series of talks and slideshows. Each session will be facilitated by an industry expert and will feature interactive discussions of participants' actual business ideas. By the end of the workshop, each participant will be ready to present a business idea to investors.
PROGRAMME OVERVIEW
The New Venture Creation 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 Value Proposition, Market Identification and Competitor Analysis, Marketing Strategy, Financial Projection and Valuation, 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 practice an "elevator pitch" to potential 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 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:
- What is innovative about your idea?
- Who is your customer - What is the market for your product?
- What is your value proposition - What problem are you solving?
- What is your sustainable competitive advantage - How will you compete?
- How will your business make money - What is your business model?
Answers to these questions have to be submitted before the workshop begins on 19 October 2005 before the workshop begins on Monday, 24 October 2005. Please complete the pre-work sheet attached at the end of this document.
Click here to download pre-work sheet.
TARGET AUDIENCE
It is intended for working professionals looking for necessary skills and knowledge to start new high-tech ventures. Participants attending the Workshop are expected to have already possessed some concrete business start-up ideas. However, those seeking to develop their ideas in the course of the workshop are also welcomed.
EXPECTED OUTCOME
On completion of the program, participants should know the key processes involved in starting a business and also 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
24th, 25th and 28th October 2005 (Mon-Tue& Fri), 9am-5pm
VENUE
Seminar Room 1, NUS Extension (Park Mall),
9 Penang Road, #10-08 Park Mall (opposite Dhoby Ghaut MRT), Singapore 238459
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 20 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
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