Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Consultant Bill Joos is Coming to Bozeman to Help You With Your Startup

October 27, 2008

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Montana entrepreneurs sometimes feel like they're climbing an ever-changing mountain all by themselves when it comes to growing their startups. How do they find the people who can help them compete against the Silicon Valley businesses that have the resources just outside their door?

Highway 12 and TechRanch are bringing Silicon Valley expertise to Bozeman to help you conquer that mountain.

Highway 12 Ventures http://www.highway12ventures.com and TechRanch http://www.techranch.org are hosting a one day entrepreneurial bootcamp with nationally recognized start-up expert Bill Joos geared toward local entrepreneurs at the Best Western GranTree Inn in Bozeman, Montana on November 5, 2008 at 8:30 am. This seminar will teach the top ten mistakes in business plans and how to perfect a company’s elevator pitch and its positioning.

The program will include:

1. Top Ten Mistakes Made in Business Plans

“Your business plan is the most important document you'll write as an entrepreneur. It can be the ticket to funding, and interest from potential clients and partners. Learn what NOT to do so you can develop a hard-hitting, compelling business case for your company.”

2. Perfecting Your Positioning

“Before you can pitch your company to raise funds or attract strategic partners and alliances, you've got to perfect your positioning. This session will provide you with a systematic approach to help you better determine your all important market definition and value propositions. This program features a hard-copy, walk-away tool that helps define these for a technology based start-up company. Participants will be taught how to use this tool which is based on a case-study example of a real startup.”

3. Perfecting Your Pitching

“Learn how to craft the best possible pitch (presentation) in the shortest possible time. This session will take you through the process of creating and delivering a compelling elevator pitch, a one-page executive summary and 13-15 slide company overview presentation.”

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“We are excited to have someone of Bill’s caliber and experience in Bozeman to share his ideas and passion for entrepreneurs of Montana. We believe this will be a great conference and provide the attendees with a number of great ideas and tools for their individual companies.” Glenn Michael of Highway 12 Ventures

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"Bill Joos is the principal of "Go To Market Consulting", based in Palo Alto, California. He works with early stage startups, venture capital firms and their portfolio clients.

He spent over 6 years as the VP of Entrepreneur Development at Garage Technology Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm that he co-founded along with Guy Kawasaki. His reputation at Garage was that he provided their clients with effective, hand son, action-oriented strategic and tactical mentoring and coaching.

Bill has worked with literally hundreds of early-to-mid stage high technology startups and helped them polish and clarify their messages and refine their fund-raising and customer presentations; but his contributions to them extended well beyond being a "Pitch Doctor". He has mentored and coached them in go to market strategies, revenue and pricing optimization, business alliances, business development, partnerships, and marketing.

Over 15,000 entrepreneurs worldwide have attended conferences where Bill has been a featured keynote speaker on various entrepreneurial topics.

He has also held sales and marketing positions with a variety of companies, including IBM and as a VP at the software division of Apple Computer.”

The cost for the seminar materials is $20 per person. Space is limited in each section. Please register early. Registration is done by visiting http://www.123signup.com/event?id=tkthm.

Best Western GranTree Inn, Bozeman

November 5, 2008. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m.

Contact Prairie Lee at TechRanch for more information about the event.

TechRanch, http://www.techranch.org, is a leading business development assistance organization focused on helping entrepreneurs in the high technology markets in growing their businesses faster, more efficiently and with less investment capital than they could otherwise. TechRanch has developed expertise in bootstrapping, recruiting talent in rural markets, raising capital outside of the major geographic areas of finance, and developing near term strategic plans aimed at getting a company to cash flow positive as soon as possible.

Highway 12 Ventures, http://www.highway12ventures.com, partners with the most promising high-growth start-up companies in the Intermountain West states of Idaho, Montana, Utah and Colorado to build lasting, market leading companies. Highway 12 understands the unique challenges of building a company in this region and working hard to bring valuable resources to its entrepreneurs. With over $100 million under management, Highway 12 has the resources to help properly finance emerging companies.

Contact: Prairie Lee, 406.556.0272, plee@techranch.org
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