Develop Your Vision, Business Model, and Pitch – Create Your American Dream
Event on 2013-10-12 09:30:00
Develop Your Vision, Business Model,
and Pitch
Create Your American Dream
If you want to raise funding from a VC or angel investor, you need to understand your Business Model and be able to talk about the tests you have done. What is an investor looking for? A tested, proven business model. It shows you have found a workable platform that can be built and that you can scale to a much larger business.
Investors are also looking to see that you have the talent, background and drive to make a success of your business and to insure that they will get their money back, with a great return. Investors like to see a team, not just an individual. This shows that there is more than one person building the business and often the team may have one technical person and one sales/marketing person.
What assumptions have you made about your business? Are they true? How true? The purpose of the Business Model is to check out your assumptions as quickly as possible to ensure you are on the best path to success. Spending a lot of time and money on activities that will not work, or barely work, is unproductive and costly. There is a better way.
The Business Model describes the flow between the key components of your company. Unless you have tested and proven each point it is your best estimate or guess to each of the questions. Not fact.
Your Business Model is constantly changing. The Business Plan is more static and fixed in place. It is your marching orders and plan. So before nailing that down, write your business model.
It is a lot like Panning For Gold. You sift through all the extra stuff in the pan and you are left with the gold. How do you tell if it’s real? Test it – bite it, or measure it.
You will learn to:
Create and refine your own Vision and Value Proposition.
Define your Target Market, Market Potential, Customer Segments and Distribution Channels and how you will Communicate and Work with your customers.
Lay out how you will generate Revenue Streams and determine your Costs, Key Resources, Activities and Partnerships required to make your business a success.
Create a Validation Plan to contact outside resources to validate your first assumptions of your Business Model.
Develop Sales Pitch to Go out and talk with your potential customers, vendors and partners to get their feedback and Validate your Business Model assumptions.
Who is this workshop for?
This workshop is designed for Startups as well as existing businesses.
Like all classes in the Entrepreneur Empowerment Series, this workshop is highly interactive and includes individualized coaching. Classes are kept small to maximize interaction and learning.
What others are saying:
"The way Nick tied the details of each subject to each of our projects made it more personal and effective for my ongoing business. Nick's workshop helped me create a more powerful vision, validate my business model and increased my confidence in talking to investors. Within 6 weeks of Nick's Business Model class I created a joint venture with a major U.S. distributor and manufacturer allowing me to continue moving my company and brand forward while traveling the country as the face and spokesperson for our business. I would recommend Nick's workshop to anyone that aspires to have their own business."
- Sebastian N
"Nick's class was fun and felt like individual coaching. He tied each part of the class to our business, while creating every opportunity to clarify our understanding. He really cares about each person's goals and needs. It made it personable and effective for me to see how to validate my business model."
- Suelyn
"I attended 7 Easy Steps to Developing a Successful Business Model and the class ROCKed! It was well worth the time and effort and was a true bargain for all of the amazing insight, the hands-on approach and the way Nick really cares about each of his students. BUT, the truth is in the effectiveness and the measured results. My original song I composed and sang, "On Angels' Wings", was gathering dust for years, but due to the gentle but consistent reminders and guidance of Nick, I worked hard to get it up on Youtube. Today, I just looked and there are over 20,000 views of the song Nick so kindly encouraged me to share with the world! This is amazing. I am so elated, not for just me but for the tangible joy I know the music and the message have been spreading. Wow. I feel proud and grateful for my decision to attend Nick Bassill's amazing, fun but demanding workshop on business Model Preparation."
- Sterling Edward
About the Author and InstructorNick Bassill provides fun and interactive coaching to empower entrepreneurs. His workshops immerse participants into the discovery of what is really important to them and their business.
His trademark is the ability to provide inspirational coaching to participants to enable them to create success by focusing their vision, developing and validating their business model and then perfecting a pitch that has the power and captivating message that can attract funding.
Nick Bassill is an American entrepreneur, inventor and innovative thinker who initiated his startup experience while at Stanford and UCLA. Over the past thirty years he has built a number of successful businesses and been instrumental in the formation of several new industries. His innovative concepts and strategies have helped many businesses launch and increase their sales and profits.
Nick Bassill is the founder and managing director of Launch America, LLC. Launch America was established to provide the educational, mentoring and financial support to help entrepreneurs actualize their American Dream. His book, Launch America! Reviving the American Dream, outlines his bold plan to create new jobs all across the country and economic growth through the formation of hundreds of thousands of business startups with private funding and mentoring.
Parking and Getting Here
Bamboo Plaza is immediately north of us (parking lot entrance on Bernard Street) and offers all-day parking for .60. Metered street parking is also available on Hill and Broadway Streets. Or, take the train! — the Chinatown Gold Line station is just two blocks away.
Kleverdog Academie is located on a small street between Hill and Broadway; just a couple doors down from Phoenix Bakery on Broadway. Look for the bright red door with the 418 address. Lost? Call us at 323-924-8463
at Kleverdog
418 Bamboo Ln Ste A
Los Angeles, United States
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