CEO Mission Statement

To inform, support and inspire college students to be entrepreneurial and seek opportunity through enterprise creation.

CEO Workshop Series

Free audio and PowerPoint Presentations of Workshop 1 are available. All other workshops are available to members only.

Date	Title	Workshop Goals	Outline	Speakers
September 14, 2006 12:00 noon	Introduction to Entrepreneurship	What personal and professional skills do you need for successful entrepreneurship?	Employee vs. Employer, Entrepreneurship benefits, Entreprenurship skills	Jim Anderson
Friday, November 17, 2006 11:00am - 1:00pm	Idea Generation and Evaluation	How can you come up with good ideas and evaluate the business possibilities of those ideas?	Past ideas, Patent info, idea generation, idea evaluation	Victor Fey	Listen	View PPT
Thursday, February 22, 2007 12:00pm - 1:00pm	Financing Your Company	How do you get money to start and maintain your business?	Investors, grants, other	Lisa Kurek - Managing Partner, Biotechnology Business Consultants, LLC	Listen	View PPT
March	Personnel	How do you find and hire the right people?	Leadership, managerial, and labor positions. Promotion from within or outside the company?	Robb Lippitt, ePrize	Listen	View PPT
March	Sales and Marketing	How do you promote what your business has to offer?	What are you offering? (product or service or both) How do you sell it?	David Goldman, Big Communications	Listen	View PPT
March	Managing Success (and Failure)	How do you grow your business? What can you do with success? What can you do when a business fails?	Deciding how and why to grow? Systems processes needed to grow	Richard Simtob - COO, Wireless Toyz	Listen	View PPT
Thursday, March 29, 2007, 3:00 p.m.	Intellectual Property Law	How do you start a business based on your own inventions; What are the benefits?	State laws, National laws, International laws, More Patent info	William G. Abbatt - IP Lawyer, Brooks Kushman, PC	Listen	View PPT
April	Business Plan	How do you write a business plan?	Outline of steps needed to write a business plan Separation of good and bad plans	Don Reimer, SBSG Art DeMonte, GLEQ	Listen	View PPT
May (after Finals)	Awards	Who wrote the best business plan?	:)	Jim Anderson

Please check our calendar for other upcoming CEO events.