Milestones to Success: Build your SME to Attract Capital January 12, 2009

Early-stage? Need capital to finance your growth? This seminar is for you. It will provide you with a step-by-step approach to building a small or medium-sized enterprise (SME) that will appeal to seasoned early-stage investors and magnetize their capital.
Who should attend?

* Entrepreneurs with bright ideas and big dreams, who are long on ambition but short on commercialization experience
* Founders, Managers and Directors of early-stage SMEs that need external capital to finance their growth
* Professional Managers, Technicians and Inventors interested in entrepreneurship
* Consultants, Advisors and Mentors to early-stage SMEs
* Economic Development Officers
* Commerce and MBA students

This seminar describes the qualities that make an SME attractive to seasoned early-stage investors and a strategy for building this compelling SME. The seminar’s core principle is that an SME’s appeal to seasoned early-stage investors is boosted enormously when it:

* targets certain early-stage milestones that are known to foretell commercial success
* targets these milestones in a specific sequence, and
* executes this SME-building strategy with sound project-management practices to achieve these milestones effectively.

build your sme

This SME-building strategy represents the best early-stage practices of successful entrepreneurs. It is described in 8 modules delivered in an action-packed day. These modules are synergetic and together form a comprehensive, effective and efficient roadmap for building an SME destined for financing success.
Who is the principal speaker?

Roger Killen has founded 4 SMEs, taken 1 company public and been an angel investor 5 times. He has 25 years of front-line experience in assisting companies raise seed and expansion capital. Roger has spent the last 10 years developing and delivering business-building and financing seminars to entrepreneurs, SMEs and their stakeholders in BC and the Yukon. Other content experts will address specialized topics.

Official Website: http://www.sfu.ca/uilo/seminars.html