Innovators’ Jump Start Program
The Pond-Deshpande Centre and Planet Hatch are joining forces for the Innovators’ Jump Start Program!
The workshops will be delivered by members of the business, legal and startup community including: Aaron Savage(Cox & Palmer), Kelly Richard (Kelly A Richard bookkeeping) , Dhirendra Shukla (TME), Clarence Bennett (Stewart McKelvey), Kelly O’Brien (Business Board), Sally Ng(Planet Hatch,) Karina LeBlanc (Pond-Deshpande Centre), funding officers fromNBIF, NB Econ. Dev., ACOA, and many more.
There will also be lots of time for Q&A and networking.
Details are available on our Innovators’ Jump Start webpage and Eventbrite. The cost is $45 to keep it affordable for our startup community.
If you have a client or know of a new(er) or aspiring entrepreneur who could benefit from this jam-packed program on October 16 (full day) & October 17 (half day) , please invite them to register as soon as possible as seating is limited.
The event will be in Fredericton, 1st Floor- National Research Council Building.
Entrepreneurs will learn:
· whether and when an entrepreneur should stay independent, take on partners or incorporate
· how to bootstrap, when to scale up
· when, where and how to access funding opportunities
· how to hire and work with your staff, and what to do when something goes wrong-when and how to properly dismiss an employee to protect yourself and your business
· how and when to protect your idea or process (intellectual property)
· how to properly maintain and manage financial transactions & records, how to work with the Canada Revenue Agency, how/when to register for HST, how to save $$
· whom to engage as your advisors, how build an advisory board
· how to use social media and branding to maximize potential
· key tools for startups
· much, much more
If you have any questions at all, please don’t hesitate to contact:
Karina Leblanc karina.leblanc@unb.ca
Heather Boyd-Kinnie innovate@unb.ca
Sally Ng sally@planethatch.com telephone: (506) 451-6826
