Kathy Kinder

Founder,

Lift Bridge CXO

VIRTUAL STARTUP STUDY HALL

Topic: Introduction to Creating a Business Forecast

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Wednesday, October 7, 2020 from 6:00pm – 8:00pm

 

Audience:

• Founders

• Investors

• Anyone with an idea for a startup who needs to learn how to create a budget and financial plan

• Anyone interested in continuing their education about budgeting and financial planning

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Kathy will teach attendees the basics of business model forecasting. Attendees will learn the basics of revenue drivers in making a forecast as well as the differences/similarities between a budget, a forecast, a projection, and an estimate. The will be a great opportunity to work "on" your business.

Mandy Rose

Senior Manager,

Ernst & Young LLP

VIRTUAL STARTUP STUDY HALL

Topic: How to Use Charts and Graphs to Portray the Health of Your Startup

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Wednesday, October 21, 2020 from 6:00pm – 8:00pm

 

Audience: Founders, C-level executives, marketing professionals

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Entrepreneurs are often busy working in the business. Mandy Rose will be teaching on how to use Excel functionality to analyze data in a way that helps businesses get a basis on how to make strategic decisions. Attendees will learn to leverage charts and graphs to portray to investors and boards both revenue trends and the overall health of their startup.

Kelli White

Owner,

Kelli White Photography

VIRTUAL STARTUP STUDY HALL

Topic: Creating Consistent Visual Content for Your Brand and Business

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Wednesday, November 4, 2020 from 6:00pm – 8:00pm

 

Audience: Founders, C-level executives, marketing professionals

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At this Startup Study Hall, Kelli will share information on how to create a cohesive visual identity for your company or personal brand. Each attendee will leave with new ideas and inspiration to create impactful images and videos to support their message.

Karen Mangia

Vice President of Customer and Market Insights, Salesforce

VIRTUAL FALL BOOK CLUB

 

Book: Listen Up!: How to Tune In to Customers, Turn Down the Noise, and Tame Your Competition by Karen Mangia

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Wednesday, November 18, 2020 from 6:00pm – 8:00pm

 

Audience: Founders, investors, C-level executive

Join us for a discussion of the book Listen Up!: How to Tune In to Customers, Turn Down the Noise, and Tame Your Competition with the author, Karen Mangia.

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Listen Up! is a playbook for how to build a company culture based on mutual understanding and create customer experiences that result in customer success. Readers will discover best practices, strategies and techniques to move from deep listening to deep understanding, from powerful statistics to powerful stories, and from inside-out to outside-in thinking. Best practices from world renowned B2B and B2C brands who have transformed their approach to customer success are coupled with cautionary tales and hands-on exercises to provide readers with ways to rethink how teams work together at every level of the organization and act as one team aligned around the customer.

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Attendees will have the opportunity to speak directly with Karen and ask any questions about her book they may have.

VIRTUAL HOLIDAY LUNCHEON & BOOK EXCHANGE

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Date: Wednesday, December 16, 2020 from Noon – 1:30pm

Audience: Open to the public

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This year, we’re mixing up our 6th annual Holiday Luncheon and Book Exchange! We know that everyone would love to be together, eat great food, and do a White Elephant style book exchange. However, we love you too much to expose you to COVID-19, so we’re changing the celebration a little bit this year.

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Instead of the money going toward your lunch, it will go toward a book that we’ll read and review together in our 2021 Book Club series! We’ll send the book directly to your home, so make sure that you enter the correct shipping address when you register. The money will directly support the author and you’ll have something to read over the holiday season. Yay!

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Over the lunch time, we’ll hear from a few people about our members’ accomplishments in 2020, and recognize some very special members. Then we’ll break up into chat rooms and have some really fun discussions all about books!