QCA's 20th Annual Entrepreneur Boot Camp
Agenda and Speakers
Day 1 (September 22)
Time Session Presenter(s)
8:00-8:15 Introduction: Angel Investing Scott Jacobs, Executive Director - Queen City Angels
8:15-9:30 Do You REALLY Have a Product? Sally Kay, Strategic Product Development
9:35-10:45 Systematic Inventive Thinking Drew Boyd. University of Cincinnati
10:45-11:00 Break
11:00-12:00 Business Models - Jobs to be Done Mark Dawes, QCA member
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:00 Growth Marketing for Your Startup Marvin Abrinica, ThrivEra
2:05-3:05 Using Intellectual Property Tom Humphrey, Wood, Herron & Evans
3:05-3:15 Break
3:15-4:00 Your First Five Contracts Mike Hurley, Calfee Halter Griswold
4:05-5:00 Social Media for Startups Michael Halloran, Xavier University
Day 2 (September 23)
Time Session Presenter(s)
8:30-9:30 Financing Your Venture: Moderator: Antony Seppi - HCDC
How start-up financing works Ella Frye - ECDI
Terence Andre - Tier1 Performance
John Habbert - Queen City Angels
9:35-10:35 Financial Statements for Managers Chair: Brad East - MCM CPAs and Advisors
& Investors Panelists: Daniela Yoder - VentureFirst, Rene Muraca - Brixey & Meyer
Scott Mindrum, Queen City Angel member and Founder of CRaKN
Jim Kokenge - BookWerks
10:35-10:50 Break
10:50-11:35 Building the Internal and External Teams Tony Shipley, Queen City Angels, Founder and Chairman
Chairman, Angel Capital Association
11:40-12:30 View From the Heavens: Moderator Chris Kuhnhein, Cors & Bassett
What Angel Investors Look For Panelists: Mike Eckert - NOLA Angels
Kim Banham - Queen City Angels
John Lilly - Queen City Angels, Lateral Capital
12:30-12:55 Lunch and Networking
1:00-2:00 Making an Effective Sales Pitch DeWitt Cook, Strategic Management
2:05-3:00 Rotating concurrent sessions: Breakout Mentoring your startup idea with angel investors, SCORE counselors, and other expert advisers
and...
Ask The Entrepreneurs: A lively session focused on the journey, paths to success, trials/tribulations of successfully
exited entrepreneurs (Brian Taylor - Scenario Learning, Alex Yastrebenetsky - InfoTrust)
Moderator: - Alan Fershtman, KMK Law
3:05-4:00 2nd concurrent session Mentoring with Queen City Angels investors and Advisers
Ask The Entrepreneurs: A panel of experienced entrepreneurs (Normand Desmairis, exited founder
Tier1 Performance Solutions, Tim Rettig)
Moderator: Vance Van Drake - Ulmer & Berne
4:00-4:30 Wrap-up