New Venture Creation Workshop /Technology Ventures

A 3-day executive training programme for working professionals looking
for necessary skills and knowledge to start new high-tech ventures.

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:
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?

Answers to these questions have to be submitted by 19 October 2005 before the workshop begins on Monday, 24 October 2005. Please complete the pre-work sheet by downloading from here.

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.

Format

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.

Benefits for the participants

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.

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. http://www.scs.org.sg

CPD Qualification

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