Join the MIT Enterprise Forum for the season opening workshop: Essential Elements of Business Planning. A great product is not enough to ensure the funding or success of a company. You also have to plan and execute a great business. This workshop will identify and drill down into the essential elements of a well-planned business and discuss how to best communicate them via your written business plan or summary. A thorough and effectively communicated "business plan" is a necessary step towards financing, attracting strategic partners, key employees, and "evangelizing" potential supporters. It will focus you and your team's efforts and it is the roadmap between an entrepreneur's vision and reality.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /?>
Speakers at this event will be:
James R. Moore: James Moore is Managing Partner of Avogadro Partners, LLC. He has over 30 years of financial and operations management experience in more than a dozen countries. He has raised capital for high and low technology ventures, assisted in successful M & A transactions, set up manufacturing and distribution operations, and managed organizations as large as 400 people. Since 1990, Jim has worked with early stage technology companies in the Northwest, serving in roles including CEO, COO, CFO, VP Ops and Director. In 2001, Jim and three partners established Avogadro Partners, LLC, a "venture development" firm focused on turning small technologies (i.e., micro- and nanotechnologies) into viable businesses. A co-founder of NWEN's Early Stage Investment Forum, Jim is a frequent speaker on business strategy, business plans, raising private equity capital and nano-technology. He earned B.A. in Engineering & Applied Physics, M.B.A. and Master in Regional Planning degrees from Harvard University
Nosa Omoigui, Chairman and CEO: Nosa Omoigui founded Nervana, a Bellevue-based software company focused on enterprise information discovery and retrieval, in April 2001. He has been granted three patents and has 20 patents pending, including two pending patents for the Information Nervous System, the technology on which Nervana is based - in the field of knowledge management. Nervana closed its first round of funding in December 2003, led by Oki Developments and West River Capital. The company raised additional capital in May 2004, led by Vantage Point Venture Partners, one of the country's largest venture capital firms. Nervana is currently focused on launching its product and expanding its sales and marketing efforts.
