Changing the Investor Discussion using Lean Startup
About this Event
The Hands-on Business Building Series kicks off Innovate Pasadena's Connect Week in a interactive and in-depth live case study session. This event is led by Sugath Warnakulasuriya and Paul Orlando.
Building on last year's "Hands-on Business Building" session, we will kick-off the Connect Week once again with this interactive, in-depth session to help entrepreneurs shift their mindset and approach not just re: how they should build their business with a more rigorous, build-measure-learn orientation, but also how they should fundamentally change the way they engage the investment community using a more experimentation and data driven way. This session will be highly useful both for entrepreneurs as well as early stage investors looking for a more scientific and transparent way to evaluate, structure, and develop startup deals.
This extended (two hour) session will include a lecture/presentation, Q&A followed by in depth case studies of startups using this approach to fundraising. The goal for you as the audience is to think about problem solving in a very hands-on way and to take away things they you can apply immediately to your own work. Lunch is included.
Type of event
Entrepreneurship Lecture/Seminar WorkshopOrganizer
Paul Orlando
Paul Orlando focuses on getting startups to succeed. As Director of the USC Incubator (http://startUSC.com), he works with businesses founded by USC students, alumni, and faculty. Incubator startups have been funded, run crowdfunding campaigns, shipped product, and have been acquired. Paul teaches Feasibility Analysis, Growth Hacking, and the Digital Startup Launchpad. Before USC, he co-founded AcceleratorHK, Hong Kong's first startup accelerator, which recently had a portfolio exit. Previously, he co-founded a startup that developed new communication technology and won at the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon. He wrote the book Startup Sacrilege about thriving outside the tech hubs. Paul's work has been featured in media including Forbes, TechCrunch and the Wall Street Journal.
Sugath Warnakulasuriya
Location
Los Angeles County Business Tech Center
2400 N Lincoln Ave
Altadena, CA 91001
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