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BusinessCamp

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BusinessCamp a TorCamp Event

 

  • Date: TBD
  • Time: TBD
  • Location: Toronto, Canada, facility TBD
  • Post Location: TBD
  • Name: BusinessCamp is a working title, StartupCamp or some variation on BootCamp having also been suggested. More suggestions welcome.
  • Pricing: Please note, as a not-entirely-un-conference this event may not be free. Rates will be considered for corporate, startup and student/special-need participants. Any accidental surplus from the event I imagine donating back to the barcamp and community and/or innovation commons.
  • Expected Attendance: Please add yourself to the Attendees list below if you think you would like to participate.


 

Mini-FAQ

 

What's the point?

Building on the success of the BarCamp, DemoCamp and CaseCamp events, this event is being organized to focus on sharing and building on the experiences of leading technology entrepreneurs. The early success of CaseCamp has shown that the BarCamp principals of open collaboration and participant-generated content can be translated to a business crowd.

 

BusinessCamp attempts to take things a step further. Though specific format remains TBD, the aim is to organize a hybrid-type un/conference with perhaps a few keynotes or panels but with the remaining content and themes to be provided by the community of participants.

 

To some extent, this is a conference for everything about tech companies but the technology.

 

This page is not intended to be the ultimate and official home of this conference on the web. Rather it is a preliminary step to garner interest and gather wisdom from the crowds.

 

The challenge is to start bridging the gap between the innovationin engine that is the barcamp community and the outside world business and of Finance.

 

So let us know, if you could a room full of the brightest young minds in technology combined with experienced business leaders and dealmakers have seen ideas take off, succeeding and/or crashing and failing… what questions would you want to ask ? This is BusinessCamp..

 

Who should come?

 

  • Founders and entrepreneurs
  • Tech CEOs, COO and CFOs
  • Finance Professionals
  • Professional investors
  • Non-profits and social entrepreneurs

 

Who's organizing this?

  • *The present plan is for the event to be a joint between volunteers from the TorCamp community, the innovation commons, and professional/civic organization(s) to be named later.
  • *You are!

*Please contribute to this wiki with your comments changes and suggestions.

*If you would like to be a part of the official organizing committee, add your name below and/or drop a line to Thomas.Purves at gmail.com . The first committee meeting will occur sometime in mid July.


 

Suggested Topics

We'll be looking for presentations from CEOs and Financiers but we're not looking for pitches. This is your chance to out teach rather than out sell. Ultimately, in Bar/DemoCamp Style, I hope the attendees will be setting the specific schedule but we gone the trouble to propose some themes to get people thinking.

 

As a straw man, we’re suggesting two streams of content at the conference. The finance camp - all about deals and past deals and terms and clauses and current trends in the industry.

 

Secondly, an operations camp on running in scaling a business. Opportunity for participants to share wisdom, experiences and or just commiserate on the challenges of organizing a business, managing employees, satisfying investors and customers, etc.

 

We will try to limit overlap with other events such as BarCamp and CaseCamp.

 

FinanceCamp

  • Startup finance and term sheets 101
  • How did you initiate contact with your your partner/investor?
  • What was the outcome? what went right, what went sub-right?
  • What would you have done differently if you only knew then what you know now?
  • Term sheets, clauses and deal structures
  • Cases! From seed to angel, series A, to secondary rounds, management buyouts, mergers or public offers tell us your story
  • Failed deals, do you have cautionary tales? portfolio companies that failed, disputes or suits and might have be avoidable?
  • Bootstrapping advantages, pitfalls, and experiences

 

OperationsCamp

  • Finding and retaining Talent
  • Managing Growth
  • Legal questions/problems managing lawyers
  • Accounting advice/obligations/cases
  • Managing realestate and office space
  • Reducing overhead? Coordinating and collaborating with a distributed workforce
  • Dealing with customers
  • Getting the most from strategic partners

 

We may want to use a digg-like interface such as this to collect and gauge interest in ideas.


 

Schedule

 

Thus far planning on a two day event with either concurrent streams or seperate schedules so that attendees could register for one or both.

 

Tentative schedule, assuming topics are run concurrently. Alternately we could carve out a chuck of the schedule and call it Finance camp.

 

*Night before, pre-party, social meetup

 

Day 1

keynote(s), panel x2 50min each

demos/cases x4 15min each

lunch

Finance and operations, concurrent sessions x4 30 min

demos/cases x4 15min each

Dinner out

 

Day 2

keynote(s), panel x2 50min each

demos/cases x4 15min each

lunch

Finance and operationsconcurrent sessions x4 30 min

demos/cases x4 15min each

After Party

 

It Would be interesting if we could manage to have some of the attendees self-assemble into a discussion panel or two, in advance or even during the conference. E.g. If you don't have something else to present, find some person who agrees with you on an interesting topic , two that don't and a moderator to referee the debate...


 

When

 

TBD, likely late fall 2006 or early winter. That sounds like November to me.


 

Sponsorship and Services

 

We will need a fair amount of help to pull this event off. We'll have to pay for or seek out providers willing to donate the following services. Please add ideas below.

 

  • Facility
  • Network connection and wireless (if not provided by venue)
  • Conerence brand design and implementation
    • Name
    • Logo
    • Signage
    • Web design
  • AV services
  • Event planning services
  • Food/catering

 

 

Sign-up!

 

Organizers

 

Support or Sponsor

 

Attendees

 


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