LaunchOklahoma workshops draw attendance of entrepreneurial community
With two workshops completed and eight more to go, LaunchOklahoma’s 2014 open accelerator workshop experience is reaching out to local startup entrepreneurs. We are excited that entrepreneurs are getting involved in our Monday lunch and learn style workshops.
Our mentors are passionate about being entrepreneurs and sharing their hard-earned knowledge and experience to help other entrepreneurs gain momentum and direction in their startup ventures.
Having an idea is just the first step. LaunchOkahoma workshops are designed to provide direction and insight into developing successful ventures and moving beyond the initial business concept.
Our workshops feature presentations from industry leaders covering a broad range of topics including: finance, legal property, marketing, pitching your startup, building investment interest, business models, and more!
Highlights from past workshops this year:
The Idea Filter
Mike Whitaker, Idea Gateway
Mike’s “Idea Filter” workshop offered attendees a new look at creating and filtering venture ideas through an 18 step self-evaluation process he has developed over years of experience as an entrepreneur.
The Idea Filter helps entrepreneurs to find the true potential of their venture idea.
“When we entrepreneurs fail, it most often happens when one or more of these is true: We worked on the wrong idea, with the wrong people, with the wrong approach, for the wrong reasons.”
The workshop was very well received with a great showing for our first program workshop of the year!
Record Keeping for Startups
Christian Brim, Core Group
Christian’s approach to the normally droll topic of accounting was to take a more personal approach. There was no PowerPoint presentation with mind-numbing numbers and equations.
Instead, Christian opened the floor to workshop attendees to ask questions pertaining to their business financial and insurance needs. Topics ranged from legal underwriting, product liability, tax filing and documentation, to company insurance and financial structures based on legal identity, and more.
“What I want to talk about are the tools available to help you with a rather mundane, but extremely important part of business and give you my insight and experience about where the pitfalls are about doing [record keeping] the wrong way.”
We have more workshop participation opportunities coming this year! LaunchOklahoma lunch and learn workshops are held every Monday 11:45am – 1:00pm. This year we are also featuring two special seminar days that feature presentations from local business leaders and organizations: the Business of Creativity seminar on Friday, August 29th and the Maker Movement seminar on Friday, September 12th.
All workshops and seminars are open to the community. To view details for each event, please visit our events page for more information!
Upcoming LaunchOklahoma Workshops:
Monday, August 11th – Branding, Messaging & Positioning
Presented by: Rod Whitson, The Bankers Bank
Monday, August 18th – Legal Essentials for Startup CEOs: Business Structure, Employment Agreements etc
Presented by: Gabe Bass, Bass Law
Monday, August 25th – SEO for Startups
Presented by: Ruth Burr Reedy, OPUBCO Digital Marketing
Monday, September 1st – Fast-Growth Sales Models
Presented by: Jason Ledlow, uTphone
Monday, September 8th – Awesome Business Models- How To Find One For Your Startup
Presented by: Piyush Patel, PL Studios & Digital Tutors
Monday, September 15th – Financial Planning & Fundraising for Startups
Presented by: Richard Gajan, OSU
Monday, September 22nd – Intellectual Property
Presented by: Doug Sorocco
Monday, September 29th – Angel Investors
Presented by: Kraettli L. Epperson
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