GloBE Schedule

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  Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
  Opportunity Value Proposition Capital Efficiency Creating the Story Execution
AM 1 What is a Lean Biotech Startup? Finding the Core Value Proposition
  • Who’s the customer?
  • Buy or build?
  • Whose decision is it?
 Keynote workshop: “Focus on the White Hot Risk” Getting your story together
  • Working session on pulling the presentation together
 Lean Capital
  • Angels
  • Early stage venture capital
  • Valuation
  • Term sheets
AM 2 Opportunity – how valuable is what you have?
The Passionate Entrepreneur 		The Lean Team: Hiring and managing a great team:
  • The Dispassionate CEO
  • Incentive plans
 A Lean Plan
  • SMART goals
  • Timelines and milestones
  • project plan
  • Budgeting
 Building and presenting your story Early partnerships
Don’t trim the tree, sell the branches
PM 1 Building a Business (Model) Strategic Assets
  • Corporate Law:
  • Incorporating
  • Standard docs
  • License agreements
 Pivoting
  • Measuring progress
  • Opportunity or distraction?
  • When things don’t go as planned
 Building and presenting your story (cont.) Prepare to scale, or forever stay small
PM 2 Finding the first money
  • Credit cards
  • Friends and family
  • Government, SBIR
 It takes a village to raise a startup:
  • Mentors
  • SABs
  • BODs
 Research vs. Development
  • What is academic?
  • Translation
 Building and presenting your story (cont.) Early Exits and Alignment