This workshop will provide an overview of what technological innovation is and what entrepreneurship is, as well an overview of the Entrepreneurial Mindset, the Lean Launchpad methodology, the Business Model Canvas and the Lean Canvas.
Wednesday, September 3, 2025 16:00to17:30
Wednesday, September 10, 2025 14:30to15:00
Get LinkedIn-ready with a great photo-no fancy equipment needed!听
Need a professional-looking photo for your LinkedIn profile but don't have one yet? We've got you covered! Join us for a casual and supportive headshot session where we'll help you take a clean, well-lit photo using your own phone.听
Wednesday, September 10, 2025 15:00to16:00
Ready to build a professional presence on LinkedIn?听
Whether you're starting from scratch or polishing what you already have, Career Advisors will guide you through each section-headline, summary, experience, skills, and more-so you leave with a profile that reflects your strengths.
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 16:00to17:30
This workshop will introduce the fundamental tool of Industry Analysis which companies use for strategy development. For startups, understanding the industry is a critical step in determining market entry and market positioning. The Five Forces Framework will be presented and applied during an exercise.
Learning outcomes:
- Explain the impact of an industry from a startup鈥檚 perspective.
- Apply the Five Forces Model.
- Develop strategies to perform your industry analysis.
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Thursday, September 18, 2025 11:00to12:00
Boost your job or internship search with a polished LinkedIn profile. We will explain how to create a professional LinkedIn presence and explore how to leverage this platform to build your network.
Wednesday, October 1, 2025 16:00to17:30
This workshop will provide an overview of the different types of market research, how to analyze the competition, and the resources available at 91导航视频 to perform market research. Our market research librarian Amanda Wheatley will walk us through some of those resources using a market research canvas tool.
Wednesday, October 8, 2025 16:00to17:00
In this workshop, participants learn how to avoid the pitfalls of building slides that have too much information, take too long to process, and compete for audience attention. By understanding the limits of human visual and auditory language processing, participants learn how to work within them.
Wednesday, October 15, 2025 16:00to17:30
Led by a team of caseworkers from Compass Startup Legal Clinic, this workshop provides startup founders with a clear path through the legal landscape, offering insight on issues such as incorporation, governance, fundraising, and selecting the ideal legal structure.
Wednesday, October 29, 2025 16:00to17:30
This workshop will demystify and explain the various forms of intellectual property (IP), namely, patents, industrial designs, copyright, trademarks, and trade secrets, and when they are used. We will then do some actual patent searching using the DERWENT worldwide patent database.
Learning outcomes:
- Describe the various forms of IP, their protection, and use.
- Explain the patenting process.
- Use DERWENT to do your own patent searching.
Wednesday, November 12, 2025 16:00to17:30
This workshop will provide an overview on the customer discovery process and then delve deeper into how to conduct customer interviews and how to iterate on your business model canvas.
Wednesday, November 26, 2025 16:00to17:30
In this workshop, you'll learn how venture capitalists (VCs) typically value an early-stage innovation-driven venture. To do that we'll go through and give examples on how to forecast sales and how to set pricing, how to forecast expenses and how to figure out the amount of capital needed to finance your business. We'll also explore some of the more common sources of cash from both public institutions and private organisations.
Wednesday, December 10, 2025 16:00to17:30
Now that you have a grasp on how much money you need, this workshop will focus on the "deal". You'll learn what a venture capital fund is, its structure and how they operate, and what venture capitalists (VCs) look for in an early-stage innovation-driven venture. You'll also learn about the typical elements of a term sheet in connection with equity investments and simple agreements for future equity (SAFEs), and caveats when raising money. Finally, we'll explain how a capitalization table works and finish off with a brief overview of minority shareholder rights.