TiEcon 2010 Business Bootcamp

 
 
Starting a company. Running a company. Taking it to the next level.
 
All of these require more than technical ingenuity and a bright idea. Even the boldest entrepreneur needs to consider the practical aspects of managing a company such as funding, legal issues, building teams, scaling sales and creating hype through PR campaigns.
This year’s TiEcon will cover six bootcamps focused on these key areas. These interactive bootcamps will, require attendee participation and hands-on experience. Our workshop leaders are experts in their fields and will offer battle-tested tips and insights to give a venture its greatest chance for success. Read below for more details on the BootCamps.
 
BootCamps are ideal for you if you:

- Are Starting a company

- Looking for ideas to grow your company

- Want to sharpen your skills and expand your knowledge
 

TiEcon 2010 BootCamps Sessions

 
Day 1: 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM | Location GB C&D
 
If you have read the book “Good to Great”, you are familiar with the phrase – the key to building a good company is getting the right people on the bus and the wrong people off the bus. How do you find the right people to get on the bus of your early stage startup? Whether these people play the role of a co-founder, engineer, manager or advisor, how do you attract the best talent? How do you build a compensation structure that rewards the contributors for the right behavior? This session is designed to address all of these questions and more on creating, growing and retaining the team that can maximize the chance of success for your company.
 
TiE Host(s):
 
Speaker(s):
 
 
 
Day 1: 3:30 PM – 4:45 PM | Location GB C&D
 
If you are like most first time entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley you are probably asking - how do I build a profit and loss statement? Of all the assumptions I make what are my key financial assumptions? What are the most relevant financial metrics? This session is designed to demystify finance for entrepreneurs.  The session will help you define business models most appropriate for your business and identify key financial milestones you must achieve before investors will take you seriously. The session will provide you the tools for creating a financial model and run “what-if” scenarios to extract key assumptions that drive decisions on how much money to raise and how long will it last.
 
TiE Host(s):
 
Speaker(s):
 
 
 
Day 1: 3:30 PM – 4:45 PM | Location GB E&F
 
Landing that all-important first customer! Finding the stars to seed the sales organization. How do you put in place the right incentives to motivate your sales team? This session will discuss these issues in the context of companies selling products to businesses. You will hear examples on selecting the right channels and defining the sales strategies that best align with your product strategy and business model.
 
TiE Host(s):
 
Speaker(s):
 
 
 
Day 2: 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM | Location GB G&H
 
What are the indispensable 3 skills that you as an entrepreneur just cannot do without? Entrepreneurs and executives are expected to be multi-talented individuals with a broad set of skills. This boot camp will show specific techniques, tricks, and real-world examples to help you master the three essential skills:  Effective networking, Deliver compelling presentations, and Negotiate deals.  This is a must attend boot camp for all those who are dreaming of a startup or working in a mature company.
 
TiE Host(s):
Krishna Mohan
 
Speaker(s):
 
 
 
Day 2: 1:00 PM – 2:15 PM | Location GB C&D
 
A must attend boot camp for entrepreneurs starting or running consumer-centric company to help build customer base and traction.  It explains metrics that one should watch to improve traction; use social media to create “viral” marketing campaign for your product; measure of traction for the right investors; learn build monetization strategies; optimal methods to reach  target audiences on the web; and includes the new rules of marketing and PR, and leveraging social media to communicate with your customers.
 
TiE Host(s):
 
Speaker(s):
 
 
 
Day 2: 3:00 PM – 4:15 PM | Location GB C&D
SPONSORED BY HOOD & STRONG LLP
 
Founders would like own 30% of company after raising two rounds of VC funding - Is that possible?  Is that typical? Is that average? Is that reasonable? Understanding company capitalization from seed stage and beyond is on every entrepreneur’s mind. How should the founder divide up equity and who gets what?  What should equity distribution be between founders, investors, company executives and various employees? This session will discuss equity distribution, basic legal issues that govern formation, option plans, Open Source software, patents and other ways of protecting your IP.  It will also discuss the cost benefit of embarking on filing patents, copyrights and trademarks. This is a must attend session for every entrepreneur at any stage of the company.
 
Sponsor Host(s):
 
Speaker(s):