Intrapreneurship is thinking and acting like an entrepreneur while working with a large organization. In fact, many organizations are recognizing the value of entrepreneurial thinking within a corporate environment, and are adopting management styles that integrate and reward risk-taking and innovative approaches that were previously thought of as characteristics of entrepreneurship in a startup environment. This session brings together representatives of some of Longmon’t largest, most successful, and most innovative organizations that are leading the way in fostering a culture of intrapreneurship.
Shina Culberson, President of Quist will share her two decades of valuation experience around the art and science of valuing startup businesses. She will talk about the stages of valuation and when to use them, the top six business value drivers and how to leverage multiple valuation techniques to win negotiations.
Being an entrepreneur is challenging in many regards and one of challenges is managing the ups and downs that come from starting and running a business. While the media loves to focus the successes of startups – winning rounds of funding, acquiring smaller startups and achieving unicorn status, the less glorious tales of entrepreneurs’ struggles to overcome challenges, the pain and scars of failure, rejection and loss of confidence tend to be glossed over or completely ignored. Great character is forged in the fire of adversity and many entrepreneurs and startups have risen to meet these challenges and achieve success. This panel of entrepreneurs will share some of the challenges and market flounders they faced as startups and how handled them.
Equity investors are approached by hundreds of entrepreneurs every year pitching their respective businesses. Some are really polished and focused, and others amazingly ineffective and convoluted. Learn from two Rockies Venture Club investors some basic tips on how you can make your pitch as effective as can be, to capture investors’ attention.
All too often entrepreneurs attempt to bring a solution to market before really understanding the challenges faced by the customers they intend to serve. This is a recipe for failure at worst— mediocrity at best. On the other hand, it’s amazing how quickly a new company can achieve success when they’ve really taken the time to walk a mile in the shoes of those customers and identify the most important problem to solve. In this fireside chat, Todd Kinzle will share the story of how he and his partners found the right problem to solve in the auto industry by first becoming dealers themselves. This approach lead them to a successful product launch and to quickly being acquired by one of the largest players in the industry.
Join us as students who graduated from the St Vrain Valley Schools and the Innovation Center discuss their findings around the "mindset of an entrepreneur." Listen as they discuss the 8 pieces of the entrepreneur and how they utilized an 'Opportunity Canvas' to discover a problem, solution and how to network. As you are journeying into the business world, do you have the 'mindset'?
