Startup Workshop
If you (1) run a business, (2) want to start a business, (3) are trying to raise funds for a start-up, or (4) are working on a business plan (or should be, if you’re in any of the first three categories), you may be interested in collaborating with your like-minded peers in our Business Creation and Incubation Workshop, or Incubator.
Group members benefit from the greater rigor, structure, periodic bouts of enforced creativity, and accountability of regularly-scheduled business planning workshops.
Brainstorming, Constructive Critique, Accountability
A workshop, as moderated by Bend Tech members, is like a writer’s group for entrepreneurs, where you can get together on a regular basis to present and refine your business plans, elevator pitches, and business models, as well as to peer-coach one another on the same subjects. You may be an expert businessperson who knows she can nevertheless profit from the wisdom of others, or a newbie who seeks expertise.
Or maybe you just know it’s often easier to stay on task, not to mention that it’s more productive and fun, when structure and accountability are installed in a space for transformation, and when you have frequent meetings, brainstorming, and coaching, goal-setting and review.
The idea is for members to come into each meeting ready to report on prior victories and obstacles, and leave each meeting with one list of ideas and another of action items to accomplish by the next session. The goal? A vetted, iterated, critiqued business plan that, for at least the next quarter, is capable of either running your business or attracting funds.
Once you finish your business plan, of course, it’s time to work on revising it to match new market and resource conditions. There’s no such thing as a finished business plan, and the group and its structure are once again there to brainstorm and critique.
Contact organizer Cameron Powell for more information (cameron at virtuosity.biz).