Young Entrepreneurs ’ Startup Camp
June 15 - 22, 2012 (This is a sample agenda from last year. We're still busy working to include
even more fabulosity for this year's Camp! Can't wait to see you there!)
Agenda
Wednesday, June 15
Orientation & Registration
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6:30 – 8:00PM |
Registration for University Concurrent Enrollment Credits Camp Overview Networking activity for parents, others, and camp participants Books distributed – 'Nail It Then Scale It' by Nathan Furr and Paul Ahlstrom Pizza and soda |
Thursday, June 14
‘Entrepreneurship is a Process not an Event’
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8:30 - 9:30 AM |
Getting to Know You: Warm -Up Activity |
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9:30 - 10:30 AM |
The Entrepreneurial Mindset: Innovation, Personal Control, Achievement, & Self-Esteem |
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10:30 - 11:00 AM |
Physical Activity Break |
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11:00 - 11:30 AM |
Creativity: Questioning Assumptions “Creativity isn’t thinking outside the box, it’s building a new box” |
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11:30 AM- 12:00 PM |
Learning Activity: What's In Your Pocket? |
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12:00 - 1:00 PM |
Lunch with a Speaker: |
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1:00 - 1:30 PM |
Learning Activity: What's In Your Pocket? |
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1:30 - 2:30 PM |
Techniques and Processes for getting New Ideas |
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2:30 - 3:30 PM |
Personal Profile: Strengths, Values, Objectives (HOMEWORK) Screening Ideas according to Criteria- based Evaluation |
Friday June 15
‘Entrepreneurs Innovate - Customers Validate’
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8:30 - 10:30 AM |
Nail It: Is your idea good? |
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10:30 - 11:00 AM |
Activity Break |
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11:00 AM - 12:00PM |
Learning Activity - Business Models: Let's start with a Purple Cow |
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12:00 - 1:00 PM |
Lunch with a Speaker: Don Watkins, ‘The Wow Factor’ |
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1:00 - 2:00 PM |
Pitching Your Purple Cow |
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2:00 - 3:30 PM |
GETTING READY FOR JUDGEMENT DAY |
“If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.”
- Albert Einstein
Saturday June 16
‘ Observation Activity ’
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9:30 - noon |
The Farmers Market |
Monday June 18
‘Developing an Identity for your ‘Big Idea Hypothesis’’
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8:30 - 9:30 AM |
Your Great Idea: Crowd Pitch |
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9:30 - 10:00 AM |
Team Formation |
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10:00 - 11:30 AM |
Learning Activity: The Challenge |
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11:30 AM-12:00PM |
Introduction to Business Model Generation template |
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12:00 - 1:00 PM |
Lunch With Speakers: |
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1:00 - 2:00 PM |
A. Assessing the Market B. Assessing the Industry |
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2:30 - 3:30 PM |
Subject mentors - Social Marketing |
Tuesday, June 19
“Aim Small, Miss Small”
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8:30 - 9:30 AM |
Nailing Your Idea -- Your Big Idea Hypothesis (BIH) |
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9:30 – 10:30 AM |
Turning your BIH into a Minimum Viable Product
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10:30 – 11:00 AM |
Physical Activity Break |
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11:00 – Noon |
Nail Your Idea (continued) |
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Noon – 1:00 PM |
Lunch With a Speaker: |
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1:00 – 2:30 PM |
Building your Financial Model - |
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2:30 – 3:30 PM |
Subject-specific mentors - listening to your customers |
“When management with a reputation for brilliance takes on a business with bad economics,
its the reputation of the business that remains intact.”
– Warren Buffett
Wednesday, June 20
‘Learning By Doing -- Activity Day’
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9:30 AM – 2:00 PM |
Ropes Course, lunch, and canoeing |
Thursday, June 21
‘Business Model Generation’
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9:30 - 10:30 AM |
Business Model Canvas - Is The Business Model Good?
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10:30 – 11:00 AM |
Physical Activity Break |
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11:00 AM - Noon |
Why Design? |
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Noon – 1:00 |
Lunch with a Speaker: |
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1:00 – 2:00 PM |
Business Reporting: In Writing |
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2:00 – 3:00 PM |
Subject-specific mentors – Branding by Design |
Friday, June 22
‘Putting It All Together’
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8:30 - 9:30 AM |
Presentations: |
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9:30 - 10:30 AM |
Group Work on Documents & Presentations |
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10:30 - 11:00 AM |
Physical Activity Break: "And now for something completely different" |
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11:00 - Noon |
Group Work on Documents & Presentations |
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Noon - 1:00 PM |
Lunch with business coaches |
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1:00 - 3:00 PM |
Group Work on Documents & Presentations |
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3:00 - 5:00 PM |
Formal Business Presentations to judges' panle |
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6:00 - 8:30 PM |
Awards Dinner and Auction
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Please Contact Shauna Theobald: 801-863-7363