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Shaping your business idea?

Workshop series with experienced entrepreneurs to go from technology to a business idea

Who should join?

Researchers assessing the business potential of their technology

People looking for a team for their nanotech project

Find a business opportunity and a team for your technology
Next Workshops

Q&A Webminar

OCT. 13 - 2017

online

Learn about Startup Nano and ask as anything.

6h00 pm to 6h30 pm

Business Models

OCT. 18 - 2017

Startup Braga (Braga)

Structure your Business Model

with Adam Pool (Angel Investor)

14:00 - 14:30 Check-in and Registrations

14:20 - 15:40 - Toolbox: What is the Lean Business Model Canvas and Validation Board with Startup Braga

15:40 - 16:10 - Talk: What it takes to start a Nanotech Startup - Adam Pool (Early Stage Venture Capitalist / Angel Investor, USA)

16:10 - 16:30 - Break and Snacks

16:30 - 18:30 - Team Work: Business Model Canvas and Validation Board (with Mentors)

Q&A Webminar

OCT. 18 - 2017

online

Learn about Startup Nano and ask as anything.

9h30am to 10h30am

Kickstart Idea

OCT. 28,29 - 2017

INL (Braga)

From Idea to a Startup with Rene Bastijans

Day 1 - Goal: Learn to prepare your Business Model validation with Rene Bastijans

9h30 - Introduction to Lean Startup and the Lean Canvas
10h30 - Exercise: startups document their project on the Lean Canvas
11h30 - Group presentations: 2-3 startups present their canvases to the group for constructive feedback
12h00 - Assumptions and Hypotheses
12h30 - Methods for testing (MVPs)

13h00 - Lunch Break

14h00 - Introduction to the Experiment Board
14h30 - Exercise: startups design their 1st experiment
15h30 - Group presentations: 2-3 startups present their experiment boards to the group for
constructive feedback
16h00 - Finding customers & how to discover their struggles, hopes and expectations
17h00 - Making sense out of experiment data
17h30 - Day Wrap-up and Q&A

Day 2 - Goal: Prepare your Startup Roadmap

9h30 - Welcome Coffee
10h00 - Working Session: Building a Team - Where is my CEO?
11h30 - Working Session: How to Select your Beachhead Market - The disciplined entrepreneur
12h30 - Lunch
13h30 - Working Session: Product Roadmap - Where should I start?
14h45 - Working Session: IP and Legal Protection - To NDA or not NDA is the question
16h00 - Pitch and Mentoring with Startup Nano Team
17h30 - End

Past Workshops

Nanotech Opportunities

OCT. 19 - 2016

INL (Braga)

Kick Off Event

Discover Opportunities in Nanotechnology

08h45 – Check in

09h00 –Introduction to the partnership "Alliance Nano for Entrepreneurship" - Lars Montelius, INL

09h05 – Introduction of the Startup Nano fostering an entrepreneurial spirit - Carlos Oliveira, Startup Braga

09h15 – Roundtable: Nanotechnology Opportunities

- Lars Montelius, INL
- António Braz Costa , CeNTI
- António Cunha, Univ. Minho
- Carlos Oliveira, Startup Braga
(Moderator: Carlos Neves)

10h00 -Startup Nano Program Presentation

10h30 - Networking Break

11h00 - Panel: Building an innovation ecosystem for Nanotechnology

- Nanotechnology Startup Stories - Vitor Abrantes, Graphenest
- Nanotechnology Startup Stories - Sofia Aires Martins, Magnomics
- An investor perspective on an innovation ecosystem - Adam de Sola Pool
(Moderator: Miguel Amador)

12h20 - Session End

Tech. Applications

NOV. 05 - 2016

INL (Braga)

Identify and select a business opportunity for a technology

with Maria Costeira (Med Tech Entrepreneur and Investor)

11h00 - Welcome

11h15  - Guest Speaker

12h00 - Lunch Break and Projects Pitch

13h30 - Workshop: How to Find a Need (Explore and Define)

15h00 - Fruit Break

15h30 - Workshop: How to screen Needs (Existing Solutions, Stakeholders Analysis, Market Analysis, Technology Opportunity and Screening)

16h45 - Lessons Learned Pitch

17h30 - Workshop Wrap Up

Business Models

NOV. 19 - 2016

INL (Braga)

Structure your Business Model
 

with Tord Lendau (Business Entrepreneur and jury of SwedNanotech)

11h00 - Welcome

11h15  - Guest Speaker

12h00 - Lunch Break and Projects Pitch

13h30 - Workshop: Business Model Canvas and Validation Board

15h00 - Fruit Break

15h30 - Workshop: Business Model Canvas and Validation Board (with Mentors)

16h45 - Lessons Learned Pitch

17h30 - Workshop Wrap Up

Kickstart Idea

NOV. 25,26 - 2016

INL (Braga)

From Idea to a Startup
 

with Vidar Andersen (Business Trainee and Entrepreneur)

Day 1 - Goal: Join a Team and define your Value Proposition

9h30 - Registration
10h00 - Team Building
11h30 - Ideas and skills Pitch
12h30 - Lunch and Team Creation
13h30 - Workshop: Building a Value Proposition to the Client
14h45 - Working Session: Defining the Value Proposition
17h00 - Working Session with Mentors

Day 2 - Goal: Design your Business Model and plan the validation

9h30 - Welcome Coffee
10h00 - Workshop: Business Model Canvas
10h45 - Working Session: Business Model
12h30 - Lunch
13h30 - Workshop: Preparing validation
14h15 - Working Session: Validation and MVP
16h45 - Pitch
18h30 - Closing Session

From a Technology to a Product

JUL. 14 - 2017

INL (Braga)

Learn the steps that take a technology and application to a product ready to the market or to be licensed to a partner.

with Hugo Macedo (CEO Smart Separations - UK)

 

09:00-09:30 Check-in and Registrations

09:30-10:30 Keynote Speaker - Going from a Technology to a Product with Hugo Macedo, Smart Separations (UK)
10:30-13:00 Workshop: Developing a Tech-Based Product
- Business Model and a Go-To-Market Roadmap
- Understanding the Industry Value Chain
- How to work on B2B and Partnerships
- Startup Go-to-Market versus Dream Company
- The Value Staircase for a Technology Base Product
with Miguel Amador, StartupBraga

13:00-14:30 Networking Lunch

14:30-16:30 Visit to INL and Startup War Stories: Biomode and RubyNanoMed (Limited to 50 People)

Finding Technology Market Applications

SET. 22 - 2017

CeNTI (V.N. Famalicão)

Identify, analyze and select a business opportunity and then apply it to a technological point of view

with Tatiana Correia (UK Knowledge Transfer Network - Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials) and Maria Costeira (Entrepreneur and CEO, and Investor at SBS Fund)

14:30-14:45 Check-in and Registrations

14:45 - 15:30 - Keynote: Moving Nanotechnology from Research to the Market: a UK experience - Tatiana Correia (UK Knowledge Transfer Network - Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials)

15:30 - 16:15 - Keynote: Who to select market opportunities worth pursuing - Maria Costeira (Entrepreneur and CEO, and Investor at SBS Fund)

16:15 - 16:45 - Intro to CeNTI and Visit

16:45 - 18:00 - Exercise: Select Market Opportunities for a Technology with Startup Braga

Transfer from/to INL (Braga) and CeNTI (V.N. Famalicão) is provided for free upon request on registration.

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