Welcome to Emerging Entrepreneurs, 2005


The workshop format is rapid-fire and content-intensive, including pre-recorded video case examples, electronic audience response, interactive breakout sessions, role-plays, panel discussions and mini-lectures.
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Friday, September 16, 2005
7:00 am	Continental Breakfast at Arrillaga Alumni Center Ford Alumni Gardens
8:00 am	Welcome McCaw Hall
8:20 am	Founding Teams: Getting people to help in the early days
9:10 am	Defining the Concept: Shaping your idea and understanding the implications McCaw Hall
10:15 am	Break Ford Alumni Gardens
10:45 am	Raising Capital: The language, process, and dynamics of getting the money McCaw Hall
12:15 pm	Lunch Ford Alumni Gardens
1:30 pm	Active Founders Panel: Perspectives on making the transition to founder and entrepreneur McCaw Hall
2:20 pm	Perfecting Ownership: Figuring out what you own and how to strengthen your position
3:10 pm	Break Ford Alumni Gardens
3:40 pm	Governance: Why every entrepreneur needs a boss McCaw Hall
5:20 pm	Transition to Cantor
5:30 pm	Networking Dinner Cantor Center for Visual Arts


Saturday, September 17, 2005
7:00 am	Continental Breakfast Alumni Center Ford Alumni Gardens
8:00 am	Decision Making: Entrepreneurs McCaw Hall Decision Making: Intrapreneurs Fisher Conference Center at Arrillaga
10:45 am	Break Ford Alumni Gardens
11:15 am	Decision Making: All McCaw Hall
12:15 pm	Lunch Ford Alumni Gardens
1:30 pm	Veteran Founders Panel: Insights from distinguished serial entrepreneurs McCaw Hall
2:30 pm	Anticipating Challenges: Preparing for the problems that success brings
3:15 pm	One Piece of Advice: Our team of founders send you off with the one lesson they hope that you don’t have to learn the hard way. McCaw Hall
3:45 pm	Networking Reception Ford Alumni Gardens