BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P1H REFRESH-INTERVAL:P1H CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU DTSTART:20070101T000000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU DTSTART:20070101T000000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260709T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260709T120000 X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:Mason SBDC: Partner Event - Preparing Your Pitch DESCRIPTION:Preparing your Pitch - Best Practices in Developing Your Business Briefing Register HERE.Please join Senior Business Counselor\, and Adjunct GMU Professor George Siragusa\, as he guides you through a step-by-step process of building a business briefing that is invaluable to startups\, early stage companies\, growth\, or even mature businesses! During this NO-COST webinar you will:become aware of at least 5 scenarios in the life of a business when your business briefing may be needed and how they may be used in each caseobtain a checklist containing 5 distinct "filters" or tests\, ensuring you have taken the necessary and critical Lean Foundational Steps prior to starting the development of your business briefingsee how an actionable framework\, containing 5 basic "themes"\, is used to test the critical business hypothesis in the marketplace needed during the "Lean Discovery Phase" of your journey\, giving you deep insights and answers which will improve the effectiveness of your business briefingobtain an actionable\, easy to use\, step-by-step outline that forms the basis of a "StoryBoard"\, the precursor to the full briefing\, and the step that "jumpstarts" the processreceive a file with an actual local business briefing used in an attempt to raise capital\, complete with speaker notes and explained section by section along with perspectives\, "do's and don'ts"\, all intended to guide your business briefing developmentAND... hear answers to many of your business briefing questions in real time!THERE IS NO COST to ATTEND\; but REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED.Speaker: George Siragusa - Senior Business Advisor\, Mason SBDC\, Adjunct Professor\, George Mason University teaching Entrepreneurship for Engineers at the School of Engineering\, and Senior Mentor for 3 area Startup Venture AcceleratorsCo-sponsor(s) & Partner(s): Prince William County Department of Economic Development and Tourism & Prince William Chamber of CommerceCancellation Policy: Contact the Center regarding cancellation earlier than 24 business hours prior to event. Kindly email help@masonsbdc.org (preferred) or call 703-261-4105 to notify the team.Special Instruction: This live webinar will be presented via Zoom. Webinar access details (Zoom invitation) will be provided after registration.\nIn partnership with: X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Preparing your Pitch - Best Practices in Developing Your Business Briefing \;

Register HERE.

Please join Senior Business Counselor\, and Adjunct GMU Professor George Siragusa\, as he guides you through a step-by-step process of building a business briefing that is invaluable to startups\, early stage companies\, growth\, or even mature businesses!  \;During this NO-COST webinar you will:

become aware of at least 5 scenarios in the life of a business when your business briefing may be needed and how they may be used in each case

obtain a checklist containing 5 distinct "\;filters"\; or tests\, ensuring you have taken the necessary and critical Lean Foundational Steps prior to starting the development of your business briefing

see how an actionable framework\, containing 5 basic "\;themes"\;\, is used to test the critical business hypothesis in the marketplace needed  \;during the "\;Lean Discovery Phase"\; of your journey\, giving you deep insights and answers which will improve the effectiveness of your business briefing

obtain an actionable\, easy to use\, step-by-step outline that forms the basis of a "\;StoryBoard"\;\, the precursor to the full briefing\, and the step that "\;jumpstarts"\; the process

receive a file with an actual local business briefing used in an attempt to raise capital\, complete with speaker notes and explained section by section along with perspectives\, "\;do'\;s and don'\;ts"\;\,  \;all intended to guide your business briefing development

AND... hear answers to many of your business briefing questions in real time!

THERE IS NO COST to ATTEND\; but REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED.

Speaker: George Siragusa - Senior Business Advisor\, \;Mason SBDC\, Adjunct Professor\, George Mason University teaching Entrepreneurship for Engineers at the School of Engineering\, and Senior Mentor for 3 area Startup Venture Accelerators

Co-sponsor(s) &\; Partner(s): Prince William County Department of Economic Development and Tourism &\; \;Prince William Chamber of Commerce

Cancellation Policy: Contact the Center regarding cancellation earlier than \;24 business hours prior to event. Kindly email &ndash\; help@masonsbdc.org (preferred) or call 703-261-4105 to notify the team.

Special Instruction: This live webinar will be presented via Zoom. Webinar access details (Zoom invitation) will be provided after registration.


In partnership with:

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Prince William Economic Development and Tourism

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