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Pre-Startup Skills: Workshop #2 – Startup Law 101

Led by a team of caseworkers from Compass Startup Legal Clinic, this workshop provides startup founders with a clear path through the legal landscape, offering insight on important considerations such as incorporation, governance, fundraising, and selecting the ideal legal structure.             

*Bonus Pre-Startup Skills: Workshop - Introduction to App Prototyping in Figma 

Want to level up your design skills? Interested in UI/UX design? Learn how you can design a real-life app using Figma. Come to this workshop run by Design Collective ²»Á¼Ñо¿Ëù!

Prerequisites: None! This is a beginner-friendly tutorial, and we will work with people at all skill levels. 

Pre-Startup Skills: Workshop #3 - Technological Innovation and Entrepreneurship 101

This workshop will provide an overview of what technological innovation and entrepreneurship are as well as an overview of the Entrepreneurial Mindset, the Lean Launchpad methodology, the Business Model Canvas, and the Lean Canvas.

Date: Nov. 12th, 2024 Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm Location: in-person @ Engine Seminar Room - FDA 3 (Accessibility Map)

Startup Skills: Part 1 – Financing My Early-Stage Innovation-Driven Venture

In this workshop, you'll learn how VC's typically value an early stage innovation driven venture. To do that we'll go through and give examples on how to forecast sales and how to set pricing, how to forecast expenses and how to figure out the amount of capital needed to finance your business. We'll also explore some of the more common sources of cash from both public institutions and private organisations.

Pre-Startup Skills: Workshop #4 - Market Research and Analysis of Competition

This workshop will provide an overview of the different types of market research, how to analyze the competition, and the resources available at ²»Á¼Ñо¿Ëù to perform market research. Our market research librarian Emily Jaeger-McEnroe will walk us through some of those resources using a market research canvas tool.

Startup Skills: Part 2 – Venture Capital Funding

Now that you have a grasp on how much money you need, this workshop will focus on the "deal". You'll learn what is a venture capital fund, its structure and how they operate, and what VCs look for in an early stage innovation driven venture. You'll also learn about the typical elements of a term sheet in connection with equity investments and SAFEs, and caveats when raising money.

Pre-Startup Skills: Workshop #5 – Foundations of IP and Patent Searching

This workshop will demystify and explain the various form of intellectual property (IP), namely, patents, industrial designs, copyright, trademarks, and trade secrets. We will then do some actual patent searching with our librarian April Colosimo using the DERWENT worldwide patent database.

Pre-Startup Skills: Workshop #6 - Customer Discovery

This workshop will provide an overview of the customer discovery process and then delve deeper into how to conduct customer interviews and how to iterate on your business model or lean canvas.

Date: Dec. 3rd, 2024 Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm Location: in-person @ Engine Seminar Room -FDA 3 (Accessibility Map)

TechIdea Pitch Competition: Submission Deadline

The TechIdea Pitch competition encourages ²»Á¼Ñо¿Ëù students, working in teams, to propose new technologically-based ideas/solutions that solve real world problems. This year's pitch competition is taking place on January 30th, 2025 during the John D.