The Innovate North Dakota Statewide Business Plan Competition features a Business Plan Boot Camp each March. It has become a favorite of the Innovate ND team and the participants involved. Yes, it is jam packed full of information about financial statements, 60 pitches and how to pitch like a pro to investors. But ask anyone who has been through our boot camp, and they’ll say it was well worth it!
On Saturday, March, 12 in Grand Forks, North Dakota at the Ina Mae Rude Entrepreneur Center at the UND Center for Innovation, the remaining 25 teams will get their their business plans worked over.
Learn more about the Innovate ND program by clicking here.
FINALIST BOOT CAMP AGENDA
8:00 - Registration and Coffee
8:30 - Start Your Engines! - Welcome
8:45 - 9:00 - First Wave Elevator Pitches
9:00 - 10:30 - Top 10 Accounting Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make
Tom Clement - UND Accounting Dept, Lecturer in Entrepreneurship
10:30 - Break
10:45 - 11:15 - Second Wave Elevator Pitches
11:15 - 12:00 - Communicating the Financials of a Great Business Plan - Command Cash With Confidence
Jeffrey Stamp, PhD, UND Entrepreneur-in-Residence
Noon: Lunch with Special Guest *Lunch will be provided
1:00-2:30 - Your Final Round Oral Presentation - Pitch Your Idea and Close Like a Pro
Jeffrey Stamp, PhD, UND Entrepreneur-in-Residence
2:30 - Break
2:45 - 4:00 - Your Final Round Moment: Open Big, Close Bigger, How to Handle Judges Q&A and Perfecting Your 1 min Elevator Pitch.
Jeffrey Stamp, PhD, UND Entrepreneur-in-Residence
4:00 - 5:00 - 1-on-1 with UND Dakota Venture Group Student Panel on Presenting You Plan to Investors
Jeffrey Stamp, PhD, UND Entrepreneur-in-Residence
5:00 - Close
