| Rocky
Mountain Stanford Entrepreneurial Summit Agenda |
| 8:00
- 8:30 AM |
Registration
- Coffee, Tea, & Refreshments |
| 8:30
- 9:00 AM |
Introduction
& Welcome - Doug Stevenson & Thomas Frey |
| 9:00
- 9:45 AM |
More
Money, Less Work, More Fun! – The 7 Principles
of Smart Growth
Speaker: Pam Watson Korbel
- Establishing
the mindset of an entrepreneur
-
Idea validation and initial evaluation
- Defining
needs and developing products/services to fill them
- Identifying
your customers and actually selling "the stuff"
- The
path to profitability
|
| 9:45
- 10:00 AM |
Break |
| 10:00
- 11:15 AM |
Legal
Answers Team
Moderator: John Fischer: Corporate
Counsel at Qwest and Vice President of the Rocky Mountain
Stanford Association
Speakers: Don Salcito, Partner at Perkins
Coie, LLP and Stephen T. Erwin, Of Counsel with Webb
Lewis & Meyers, LLC
- Developing
the legal framework for your business
- Protecting
your intellectual property
- Negotiating
contracts
- Legal
pitfalls that can cost you dearly
|
| 11:15
- 12:45 AM |
Lunch
- On your own for lunch. Ideal time to network
at nearby restaurants. |
| 12:45
- 1:45 Noon |
Strategic
StorySelling for Entrepreneurs
Speaker: Doug Stevenson
- How
to choose a story from the seven types of stories
- The
difference between business storytelling and traditional
storytelling
- How
to craft a story using the Nine Steps of Story Structure
- How
to brand the message using the Phrase That Pays
- Why
business stories must contain an obstacle and a lesson
learned
|
| 1:45
- 2:00 PM |
Break
|
| 2:00
- 3:15 PM |
Financial
Solutions Panel
Moderator: David Milstead, Finance
Reporter for the Rocky Mountain News
Speakers: Russ Farmer, an SBIR expert
and CEO of PBC; Jeff Andrews, Vice President of Keating
Investments; Karl Dakin, Attorney at Dakin LawTek LLC;
and Tyler Tysdal, Managing Partner of TIVIS Ventures
- Friends
& Family
- Finding
Angels
- SBIRs
and Government Funding
- SBA
Loans
- Venture
Capital
|
| 3:15
- 3:30 PM |
Break |
| 3:30
- 4:30 PM |
Whats
Hot? Panel Discussion on Hot New Market Segments
Moderator: Jerry Lewis, Managing Editor for the
Boulder County Business Report
Speakers: Dr. Louis Hornyak, Co-Founder of the Colorado
Nanotechnology Initiative; Dr. Arlen D. Meyers, Executive
Director of the Colorado Alliance for Bioengineering;
Laurie Ganong Jones, Co-founder and President of Sterling
Bio-Technologies Corp; and Jay Stein, Director of Technology
Assessment for Platts Energy
- Nanotechnology
- Biotechnology
- Energy
- Predictions
for 2004
|
| 4:30
PM |
Closing
Thoughts - Thanks for Coming |
