MassRobotics hosts month-to-month CEO roundtable conferences enabling startup management to share widespread hurdles and supply specialists and veterans a platform to debate trade insights and help. This helps foster a way of camaraderie inside the resident group and provides a protected haven to change challenges, experiences, insights and techniques. It’s a chance to realize priceless recommendation from professional friends as nicely.
We invite material professional friends in varied focus areas who usually present content material adopted by open Q&A and dialogue. We’ve additionally held workshops for startups together with: Getting ready a Pitch, Increase Capital, and Constructing a Robust Staff.
We kicked off the 2023 month-to-month spherical tables discussions with visitor Danielle Duplin, President at FreeWind Productions. Danielle shared tips about constructing an efficient one-minute elevator pitch incorporating storytelling and specializing in a theme. She supplied many examples and labored one-on-one with CEOs providing concepts and options.
In February we hosted a “Getting ready the Pitch” workshop with the founding father of Scroobious, Allison Byers. The Scroobious Pitch it Plan™ is a platform that helps startups get their compelling story into an investor-ready format. The platform gives an internet schooling and personalised suggestions by the lens of an investor mindset. On this workshop Allison supplied tips about constructing a transparent and compelling pitch deck which is essential at any stage of the fundraising course of. She confused structuring the narrative and speaking crucial points of the enterprise in a means that is smart to buyers. Residents realized a framework for structuring their narrative and acquired tangible recommendation on what data to incorporate in every part of the pitch deck.
Additionally in February we hosted Greg Raiz who supplied a workshop and tips about “ Increase Capital”. He in contrast Angel Funding vs conventional VCs and mentioned the variations between Pre-seed, seed and sequence A investments and expectations. He walked by a step-by-step strategy to fundraising together with prepping, pitching and shutting and supplied recommendation to the startups attending the session.
Parna Sarkar-Basu, CEO of Model and Buzz Advertising and marketing, was our March visitor and spoke about constructing market credibility, constructing a model across the startup management, and what it takes to “stand out.” Throughout this session Parna spoke in regards to the branding errors most startups make and supplied tips about constructing the founder’s model – an vital factor of launching a profitable enterprise.
Drew Fortin, Founder & CEO of Lever Expertise, ran our April workshop and targeted on constructing a powerful crew and profitable tradition. Every attendee took a self-assessment to grasp their particular person belongings which helped them discover what traits and expertise that had been then wanted to enrich their crew in order that they cowl all essential expertise to succeed. We used a Predictive Index Behavioral Evaluation instrument to find particular person superpowers after which utilized this to consider the best way to construct groups and align to methods. There was dialogue round the usage of mission, imaginative and prescient, and values to make use of to unlock the facility of behavioral variety in an organization.
Our ultimate session previous to our summer time break was with Christie Bluhm from CliftonLarsonAllen (CLA), a MassRobotics Related Community member. CLA is an expert companies agency delivering built-in wealth advisory, digital, audit, tax, outsourcing, and consulting companies. Christie Bluhm supplied greatest practices in accounting and finance and spoke about forecasting and taxes.
CEO roundtables are simply one of many many advantages we provide our resident startups. Study extra about MassRobotics resident advantages right here.
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