QCA's 20th Annual Entrepreneur Boot Camp

 

                                         Agenda and Speakers

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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                                                                       

9:30-10:45                  Creating Better Ideas                                  David Eyman, Jim Friedman Miami University

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

2:00-3:00                    Using Intellectual Property                          Tom Humphrey, Wood, Herron & Evans

3:00-3:15                    Break

3:15-4:00                    Your First Five Contracts                             Mike Hurley, Calfee Halter Griswold

4:00-5:00                    Social Media for Startups                            Michael Halloran, Xavier University

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Day 2 (September 23)

Time                          Session                                                    Presenter(s)

8:30-9:15                    Financing Your Venture:                              Moderator: Joe Wilson, Key Bank

                                  How start-up financing works                       Dan Geeding, Queen City Angels

                                                                                                  Parag Rathi, River Cities Capital Fund

9:15-10:15                  Financial Statements for Managers                Chair:      

                                  & Investors                                                Panelists: Daniela Yoder - VentureFirst, Alan Greenwell - Brixey & Meyer                               

                                                                                                  Scott Mindrum, Queen City Angel member and Founder of CRaKN 

10:15-10:30                Break

​10:30-11:15                Building the Internal and External Teams       Tony Shipley, Queen City Angels, Founder and Chairman        

                                                                                                  Chairman, Angel Capital Association

11:15-12:00                View From the Heavens:                              Moderator Chris Kuhnhein, Cors & Bassett

                                 What Angel Investors Look For                      Panelists: John Ward, Kim Banham, Scott Miller - Queen City Angels 

12:00-1:00                 Lunch and Networking

1:00-2:15                   Making an Effective Sales Pitch                      Pete Kay, Strategic Management                                                                 

2:15-3:15                   Rotating concurrent sessions: Breakout Mentoring your startup idea with angel investors, SCORE counselors, and                                                                                 other expert advisers

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                                 Ask The Entrepreneurs: A lively session focused on the journey, paths to success, trials/tribulations of successfully

                                 exited entrepreneurs (Normand Desmairis, exited founder Tier1 Performance Solutions)            

                                 Moderator:  - Alan Fershtman, KMK Law                      

3:15-3:30                   Break  

3:30-4:30                   2nd concurrent session Mentoring with Queen City Angels investors and Advisers

                                 Ask The Entrepreneurs: A panel of experienced entrepreneurs               

                                 Moderator: Vance Van Drake - Ulmer & Berne                                        

4:30-5:00                   Wrap-up

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