Innovation Center - Upcoming Events

Entrepreneur Pitch Presentation Workshop with Bill Joos 'The Pitch Doctor'

Bill Joos, the 'pitch Doctor' from Silicon Valley, will be back in Scotland in February 2012.

Less than one week from now Bill will be conducting two 1-day interactive seminars focused on specifically preparing and delivering your all-critical 'Elevator Pitch' as well as your initial PowerPoint presentation to attract investors... and customers.

The workshop will take place on Monday, 6 February 2012 at the Informatics Forum in Edinburgh, and will be repeated Tuesday 7 February 2012 at the Hillington Innovation Centre,Glasgow (http://www.innovationcentre.org/hillington/location/)

Bill's workshop will include these four sessions:-

THE TOP TEN MISTAKES IN BUSINESS PLANS

Your business plan is the most important document you'll write as an entrepreneur. It can be the ticket to funding and garnering interest from potential clients and partners.

Learn what NOT to do so you can develop a hard-hitting, compelling business case for your company.

PERFECTING YOUR 'SHORT BUILDING' ELEVATOR PITCH*

You can't assume your elevator pitch will be in a skyscraper! What if the mythical elevator ride is in a short building, and you only have 20 seconds?

In this session you will learn how to focus on what really matters to instantly grab the listeners attention when asked 'what does your company do ?'

PERFECTING YOUR PITCHING*

Learn how to craft the best possible pitch(presentation) in the shortest possible time.

This session will take you through the process of creating and delivering two versions of a company overview presentation:

One suitable for a one-hour discussion with investors and a version suitable for shorter pitches, such as at the EIE 2012 investor showcase event.

This session features a hard-copy, walk-away presentation development tool that will help you put together these presentations for a technology based start-up company.

THE POWER OF AN ADVISORY BOARD

This dynamic bonus session will focus on what Bill feels is the entrepreneur's most under-utilized resource: a powerful Advisory Board.

This can be the key to tapping into external expertise and impressing investors. When you ask for funding, you often get advice.

The opposite may also be true: ask for advice and get funding!

Schedule for each day:

08:30 - 09:00 Arrival and Registration

09:00 - 09:05 Introduction and overview

09:00 - 09:30 Self - introductions

09:30 - 11:00 Top 10 Mistakes in Business Plans

Break

11:15 - 12:45 Short Building Elevator Pitch

Lunch

13:45 - 15:45 The VC Pitch

Break

16:15 - 17:30 The Power of an Advisory Board

17:30 - 17:40 Recap of the day.

Due to high demand these events are now full

How to use LinkedIn to supercharge your profile

Julie Moulsdale of Perceptive Partners will guide us through a very practical session on how to get the most out LinkedIn to supercharge our personal profile and in so doing, create more business opportunities.

This unmissable masterclass will cover:

• Managing your reputation online : What's already being said about you and how do you find this out?

• Managing the message : Being clear on the message you want to convey and how do you say it most effectively

• Managing your network: Using your network effectively using LinkedIn, how to make the most of groups, how to find business opportunities on LinkedIn

• Minding your Ps and Qs online : The worst LinkedIn clangers and how to avoid these

• Top 10 LinkedIn tips NB.

Whilst you will inevitably learn a great deal from simply attending, to get the most out of the session please bring along your laptop.

As part of the learning process, together with the whole group, Julie would like to work on the LinkedIn profiles of a few people attending the event. Once you have signed up, if you would like the chance to volunteer your profile, please email Julie directly julie@perceptivepartners.co.uk

About Julie Moulsdale: Julie founded Perceptive Partners Communications www.perceptivepartners.co.uk in 2006. She has worked with several blue chip brands, small organisations and individuals to drive better business results through better communication. These include IBM, PWC, Cisco, Thomas Cook as well as City Legacy, the consortium building the Athletes' Village for the 2014 Commonwealth Games and best-selling author, Carmen Reid. Julie regularly shares useful LinkedIn tips on LinkedIn and on Twitter.

The cost to attend these events is £30.00. A discounted rate of £20.00 is available for clients/tenants of HPIC, AIC, the Atrium, Interactive Scotland, Tech Meetup and members of Renfrewshire and East Renfrewshire Chambers of Commerce. Please select the 'members only' ticket to access this discount.

Hillington Park Innovation Centre, Scotland's leading Innovation Centre, is delighted to bring you the next series of business masterclasses. These events have been created to deliver three key benefits:

a) Hear from industry experts passing on the benefit of their experience.

b) Network with a wide range of companies and individuals.

c) Promote your own business to potential partners and customers.

Each event will contain a formal presentation from a key business expert, a question and answer session, a formal networking opportunity, a chance for one company to present to the attendees on their products and services, lunch and an informal opportunity to network.