Free 2016 Annual Business Bootcamp for Entrepreneurs- Boston Edition

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2016 FREE BUSINESS BOOT CAMP- Boston Edition 

MORE SPEAKERS TO BE ANNOUNCED!

Hosted By Forbes 30 Under 30 Entrepreneur-Christine Souffrant Ntim

Date: Saturday, October 15, 2016 Time: 9am-5pm (Prior to Forbes Summit Oct 16-19)

9:30-10am- Registration

10am-10:30 Opening Remarks & Orientation

10:30-11am Product Development 101

• 15 Minute Workshop- Ideation and Beta Testing 101 
• Panel of Perspectives  

11-11:30am-Customer Acquisition 101

• 15 Minute Workshop-Customer Acquisition 
• 15 Minute Q/A session 
  

11:30-12:00pm Social Impact 101

12:00-1:00pm Lunch break & Networking + Pitch Competition 

1:00-1:30pm Press & Marketing 101

• 15 Minute Workshop- Pitching, social media campaigns, press, and PR, event management 
• Panel of Perspectives- Press, Media & Entrepreneurship 

1:30pm-2:00pm Funding 101

• 10 Minute Workshop- How to raise capital via crowdfunding, crowd equity, and unconventional methods 
• 10 Minute Workshop-Funding angel & VC investment 
• Panel of Perspectives

2:00pm-2:30pm Government, Legal, Support

2:30-3:00pm Branding 101 

• Myths & Mistakes of Startup Branding by Doug 

3:00-4:00pm Startup Ecosystem Panel 101

• 10 Minute Workshop on how to leverage startup ecosystems
• Panel of Perspectives

4:00-4:30pm Startup Pitch Off w/ $500 Grand Prize Win w/ Clerky Legal Filing (Includes Incorporation and Post-Incorporation Setup (excludes $133 in filing fees))

Host:

Christine Souffrant Ntim is a Haitian-American entrepreneur with over 7 years business management experience across 30+countries. She was selected for Forbes 30 Under 30, AdAge 40 Under 40, and Caribbean Change Makers 30 Under 30 in 2016. She speaks on leadership, disruptive entrepreneurship, and social impact at the United Nations, TEDx, European Forums and over 20+ global conferences each year. She also interviews top influencers in the Middle East as the Managing Director of Startup Grind Dubai, powered by Google for Entrepreneurs. Her entrepreneurial journey started with Vendedy a social network connecting global travelers to street markets. The innovative platform was featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur Magazine, Huffington Post, Inc Magazine, IBM Global Entrepreneur, Microsoft, the Clinton Global Initiative, Master Card Priceless Pitch, SheKnowsMedia Pitch, Chivas Venture Million Dollar Prize, Forbes Million Dollar Prize Top 40, SOCAP Gratitude Network, Rent the Runway Project Entrepreneur and Digital Entertainment World. Her efforts to digitize the $10 trillion dollar street market economy has been recognized by top influencers of Singularity@NASA and Draper University. Today, Christine is well recognized as a speaker, traveler and serial entrepreneur who builds startup ecosystems for entrepreneurs. Her global initiatives include BrandEntrepreneurs.com (the leading platform of free resources for startup founders), CaribbeanStartups.com (accelerates 100 startups to market each year), and WeStartupHaiti (the central hub for Haiti's entrepreneurs).For fun, she travels and binge watches top business shows with her husband and beautiful baby girl.

Host: 

Einstein Ntim is a leading influencer within startup development networks from Silicon Valley to Africa. As the founder of 2 healthcare startups Bloomer (which leverages exponential technologies to tackle disease) and Enabled International (which leverages AI robotics to digitize data systems in hospitals)- Einstein was able to amass several partners from Singularity, Draper and other silicon valley based groups and launch platforms that support entrepreneurs from emerging markets. Prior to his work in the USA, Einstein completed a career in banking (UBS, Statestreet), authorship (writer of “A New Way”), military (UK), business (care home manager), ministry (Methodist Church minister) and professional sports (National Rugby Squad) in cities within London, China and India. He is a graduate of the London School of Economics (LSE).

More Speakers to be announced

Mike Grandinetti has a unique cross-disciplinary background. He has deep operating experience as a serial venture capital – backed entrepreneur across five very successful ventures, was involved as an early team member in the launch of several successful new businesses within Hewlett-Packard, holds long-standing faculty appointments at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and the Technical University of Denmark Center for Technology, Economics and Management and has been deeply involved in regional and national economic development, with a distinct focus on global entrepreneurial coaching and enablement, innovation policy and innovation cluster acceleration, as well as advanced technology commercialization and tech transfer, in the US, Canada, and Europe. He also served as a senior management consultant with McKinsey, the world’s premiere strategy consultancy.  As a serial entrepreneur, Mike was involved in the formation of 7 advanced technology start-ups and has helped lead five venture-backed start-up companies to successful exits ( twice a multiple exit) for his VC investors, inlcuding 2 NASDAQ IPOs and 5 high multiple trade sales to strategics. He currently serves as a Senior Advisor to numerous global start-ups and VC firms across the IT, med tech and clean tech sectors and is Managing Director of StartupNEXT Boston and a Community Impact Fellow with OpenIDEO. 

Andrea E McGrath is a relationship driven, systems-level thinker with deep, cross-sector experience helping organizations ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies to strengthen and scale business models, assess and launch new initiatives, clarify value propositions and positioning, and develop new knowledge and insights. Andrea is the founder of amplified impact, a strategic advisory and research firm working both independently and in partnership with colleague organizations in the field of social change for the past decade.She has also collaborated extensively with centers of social enterprise and management at Duke University, Yale University, Harvard Business School, and the Harvard Kennedy School. Andrea began her career as a fundraiser, then earned an MBA and joined a global Fortune 500 financial services organization, working as a consultant to both internal teams and select clients in global operations, worldwide marketing, and competitive intelligence. Andrea earned her BA from Boston College, MBA from the University of Connecticut, and MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

Doug Fox, President-Brand Fox----Passionate brand champion, roaring pink barbarian, motivating coach, Doug is a proven brand strategist with more than 20+ years experience successfully building and positioning global brands and businesses. He is especially adept at developing more customer centric value propositions, enabling clients to better connect with their customers.Doug specializes in taking really complicated offerings and simplifying them down to a very sharp point, addressing the targets pains/wants/needs/desires. This helps inspire great creative so companies connect with their audience emotionally, before converting them rationally. And enables them to get the most out of their channels, so they can penetrate the market deeply, efficiently and effectively.Doug’s experience includes technology, CPG, health care and financial services including Bose, T2 Biosystems, Timex, Lincoln Financial, Hasbro, Eliza Corporation, Hawaiian Tropic, Joslin Diabetes Center, Gillette, SAP, Foster Grant, Fidelity, Staples and McKinsey, among others.Doug is an active speaker and mentor in the local startup community in Boston. For several years, he’s been a team leader at MITXUp startup marketing hackathons at the various accelerators around town – MassChallenge, TechStars and iLab.  Additionally, he has mentored two grand prize winners at MassChallenge – Voxel8 in 2014 and RailPod in 2013.