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Maidenhead
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Workshop Agenda
Time Module Role
Pre-workshop Reading and Preparation
08.30 Arrival and Coffee; Introduction & Housekeeping Chair
09.00 Research Projects Chair
09.10
  • Reality Checkpoint Zero - you
  • Outline of purpose and overview; tax; regulation
  • Risk & Reward: spread; statistics, returns
  • Marketplace - liquidity
  • Sharing & Comparing: peer support
  • Investor Clubs: Commitments
    • Location
    • Critical size
    • Sources of deals
    • Sources of additional members
    • Rules – and costs of administration
    • Possible models for investing - syndication / individual / ‘pseudo fund’
Networks
09.30 Reality Checkpoint 1 - plan
Stage of concept – idea / model / sales / commerciality
Investors
09.50 Reality Checkpoint 2 - people
Deal doing
Management competence
Due diligence: what it really means in the start-up/early stage markets
Investors
10.10
10.50
Coffee and workgroups 1
discussion / plenary feedback / solution 1
11.10 Reality Checkpoint 3 – risks
IP protection/resource availability/practicality/assumptions
Possible models for deal assessment
11.30
12.10
Coffee and workgroups 2
discussion / plenary feedback / solution 2
12.25 Reality Checkpoint 4 – what’s in it for me?
Commitment from Principals – time / money
Accountant
12.50 Reality Checkpoint 5 – the deal
Heads of Agreement
legals, investor protections, shareholder agreements, and so forth
director's responsibilities
Lawyer
13.10 Lunch
14.10
14.40
Workgroups 3
discussion / plenary feedback / solution 3
15.10 Presentations from fund seekers
15.55 Coffee and workgroups 4
discussion / plenary feedback to presentation
16.40 Summary and Close
What now?
Investor Clubs
Incubator funding
Feedback
Ongoing research
17.00 Close