WEtech/ EPICentre -Summer Intensive Series (#6)

Get tools, mentoring and peer feedback to help as you roll up your sleeves and develop strategic components for your business.
This intensive program combines our six workshop series and runs twice a week from May 19 – July 20, 2015 
It is a great opportunity for highly motivated entrepreneurs to take their startup to the next level.
3 sessions…June 1, 5 & 8 (4 hours each). In each four-hour session you will generate a deliverable that you will use frequently in the business development process.
June 1 @ 8:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m.  
Session 1 – Preparing Your Business Forecast
In this session, we help you understand the basics of financial statements and begin to build a detailed cash-flow forecast to be used in making day-to-day business decisions around growth.
Deliverable: Expense cash flow template for your business.
 
June 5 @  8:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m.   
Session 2 – Understanding revenue forecasting and funding
In the second session, we will demonstrate how to add revenue estimates to your cash-flow forecast, taking you through inputs such as pricing, sales funnel and revenue types. The result will be a complete cash-flow forecasting model you can use in your business.
Deliverable: Revenue cash-flow template for your business.
 
 
June 8 @ 8:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m.  
Session 3 – Business Valuation and Tutorial Session
First half: Outline basic concepts surrounding different types of business valuations, and the inputs and factors that impact valuation from an investor perspective.
Second half: Working session/finance lab.
Deliverable: Basic complete 12-month cash flow forecast for your business.

* Entrepreneur’s Toolkit Workshops are experiential, hands-on workshops facilitated by experienced entrepreneurs. The workshops offer ventures tools, mentoring and peer feedback to solve specific problems and develop essential business components.

Cost of workshops: The Entrepreneur’s Toolkit Workshops cost $100 to attend. There are two different ticket types that can be purchased:

1. ONE Client Refundable Deposit; Purchase this ticket if you are a client of a Regional Innovation Centre (Ontario Network of Entrepreneurs). When prompted on the registration page, list the Regional Centre of which you are a member and your current advisor’s name. You will be refunded your full ticket price at the end of the workshop series.
2. General Attendance Fee; Purchase this ticket if you are not currently a member of a Regional Innovation Centre. You will receive a 10% discount on your ticket price at the end of the workshop series.

**If you are unable to attend a workshop session, please let us know four business days in advance. We regret that failure to do so may result in the loss of your deposit.
**The post-workshop survey must be completed within four days of the last day of a workshop series for a registration deposit or discount to be refunded.
If you would like more information on our workshop programs or how to become a client of a Regional Innovation Centre,  contact workshops@marsdd.com