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One Page = One Truly Effective Business Plan

Original Date: February 19, 2020

The Lean Canvas Model is a one-page business plan template that helps you distill your key ideas and assumptions. During this interactive workshop, you will create your own Lean Canvas Business Plan and discover how it can streamline your thinking!
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Crafting an Unforgettable Pitch

Original Date: February 18, 2020

A successful pitch does more than just give an outline of your idea or grab someone’s attention. It captivates and convinces! At this workshop, you’ll learn what (and what not!) to do, and understand the structure of a powerful pitch. You’ll also learn how to write your pitch and craft a pitch deck.
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Harvard Startup Career Fair 2020

Original Date: February 14, 2020

Join us for the Harvard OCS Startup Career Fair! This educational and career-focused event is an excellent way for you to network with representatives from entrepreneurial and startup organizations, learn about jobs and internships, and discover exciting opportunities available in the startup field.
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Build it & Start it Social Mixer!

Original Date: February 13, 2020

Come get to know your fellow innovators and venture founders at the first Social Mixer of the Venture Program! This is a casual environment to be inspired, hear about other student's experiences, and find out who has skills, connections, or expertise that may help you along the way.
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It Starts with Empathy: Getting to Know your Customer with Design Thinking

Original Date: February 12, 2020

Get to know design thinking in this high energy workshop with IDEO CoLab’s senior designer, Shuya Gong. In just 90 minutes, you’ll learn how to use human-centered design to understand your customer, iterate on your idea, and create a solution. You’ll discover effective methods for reframing obstacles and tackling challenges. You’ll also learn how to take a design brief from inspiration, through ideation, and finally to implementation.
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Build it: Find Your Mentor at Mentor Match!

Original Date: February 11, 2020

Ready to meet the mentor who will guide your progress over the next twelve weeks? Join us at Mentor Match, the kickoff event launching the Spring 2020 Mentor Program. In this rapid ‘speed-dating’ and networking experience, Venture Program Build It Founders give 60 second pitches of their venture to expert entrepreneurs who could be their i-lab Mentors. Each team will be paired with the best Mentor to catapult their venture forward.
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Life Science Business Development Workshop Series

Original Date: February 3, 2020

The workshop will focus specifically on business development, commercialization strategy, and product development strategy for life sciences and healthcare markets. Topics will include value hypothesis creation and testing, healthcare customer discovery and stakeholder value mapping, market and competitor analyses, prioritization of indications/applications, healthcare economics and clinical value analyses, competitive advantage creation (e.g., IP, regulatory strategy, payor reimbursement strategy, etc.), basic financial modeling & forecasting, elevator pitch prep, and fundraising strategy development.

An i-lab Programming Event.
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Life Science & Healthcare Business Development Special Guest Workshop – Startup Capitalization

Original Date: January 29, 2020

This "ChalkTalk" is focused on matters of startup capitalization. David Willbrand (bio below) will take the mystery out of the jargon by explaining what a cap table is, how it comes together, how it evolves and, most importantly, how startups raise money!

An i-lab Programming Event.
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Hack the President’s Innovation Challenge

Original Date: December 12, 2019

This is a must attend event if you're thinking of applying to the President's Innovation Challenge (specifically the semi-finalist path)! The workshop is a specially designed hands-on, roll up your sleeves, turbocharged session to help you develop your strongest application. We'll take a section-by-section deep dive into the application and, for each section, our i-lab advisors will give you an introduction and then help you craft your specific application responses.

An i-lab Programming Event.
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From Cause to Idea Brainstorm

Original Date: December 10, 2019

Want to tackle the President's Innovation Challenge? Don''t have an idea yet? Want to join a team? Want to dream up an idea? We'll give you tools to questions assumptions and take a cause you care about all the way to a new venture idea. We'll also connect with existing teams that are looking for new members.