Join VIATeC and BCIC-New Ventures for Magnetic Startups: Build It Right & Money Will Come with Roger Killen.

This seminar part of the BCIC-New Ventures Competition: Regional series. It's included in the $100 entry fee for competitors and $10 for general admission.

Seminar Overview:

Startup founders have steep learning curves that are even steeper when they require external capital. They often become frustrated, bewildered, intimidated, isolated and often overwhelmed by the challenges of launching and financing their business.

Magnetic Startups is a seminar that addresses their pain. It gives startup founders:
- a step-by-step system of best practices and milestones for building a startup that will be seen as a worthy custodian of seasoned investors’ capital
- clear, concise, comprehensive and co-ordinated steps to a full treasury
- the mindset and metrics for success from the get-go
- confidence that they have what it takes to build a successful startup.

When attendees apply the seminar’s recommendations, their startups will become magnets for capital because they will feature:
- founders developing critical skills
- validated markets
-  technically feasible and commercially viable products or services
-  exit strategies that capture strategic value
-  clear brands
-  business structures that don’t require re-structuring
-  infrastructures that safely support rapid growth
-  valuable intellectual property portfolios
-  disciplined business cultures
-  credible stakeholders

To raise serious amounts of external capital, a startup must take 3-steps:
1.    It must be perceived as a home run in the making
2.    It must develop a compelling offering
3.    It must vigorously market this offering to logical sources of early-stage capital.
 
Magnetic Startups describes a system of 20 best practices that lead startup founders through these 3 steps.

About Roger:

Magnetic Startups will be delivered by Roger Killen. Roger was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, attended Trinity College in Dublin and graduated with an honours degree in Business Studies and a single digit golf handicap in 1973. He immigrated to Canada in 1975 and worked as a salesman and product manager for Xerox Canada until 1979.
 
Since 1977 Roger has founded 7 startup businesses and held senior positions in 2 others. He has taken one company public and been an angel investor 7 times. He has led in raising over $8m in startup equity and leveraged this equity into $14m.
 
Since 2001 Roger’s calling has been to help entrepreneurs design, finance and build successful startups. To this end he has delivered how-to seminars throughout British Columbia and the Yukon. Roger is in process of expanding the scope and scale of his business by writing, speaking, teaching and coaching both live and online.
 
Roger’s hobbies are ballroom dancing, public speaking and option trading.

Agenda:

Lunch & Registration: 12:30pm
Seminar: 1:00pm-3:30pm

Location:
Vancouver Island Tech Park
4464 Markham Street, Victoria

Registraton:
This seminar part of the BCIC-New Ventures Competition: Regional series. It's included in the $100 entry fee for competitors and $20 for general admission. VIATeC Members and BCIC-New Ventures volunteers and sponsors may attend for free.

Visit www.newventuresbc.com for more information about our $60,000 annual regional competition and $300,000 annual provincial competition.