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

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, [email protected]