In this workshop, you'll learn how VC's typically value an early stage innovation driven venture. To do that we'll go through and give examples on how to forecast sales and how to set pricing, how to forecast expenses and how to figure out the amount of capital needed to finance your business. We'll also explore some of the more common sources of cash from both public institutions and private organisations.
This workshop is facilitated by Derrick Wong (Ronald Chwang聽EiR).
Take a break with your Local Wellness Advisor, a member of the Arts OASIS team and your peers. This is a time to relax with free tea and hot chocolate and an opportunity to chat about wellness and/or academic advising. Please bring your own mug to enjoy hot chocolate or tea.
This workshop will provide an overview of the different types of market research, how to analyze the competition, and the resources available at 91社区 to perform market research. Our market research librarian Emily Jaeger-McEnroe will walk us through some of those resources using a market research canvas tool.
Date: Nov. 19th, 2024
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Location: in-person @ Engine Seminar Room FDA 3 (Accessibility Map)
Now that you have a grasp on how much money you need, this workshop will focus on the "deal". You'll learn what is a venture capital fund, its structure and how they operate, and what VCs look for in an early stage innovation driven venture. You'll also learn about the typical elements of a term sheet in connection with equity investments and SAFEs, and caveats when raising money. Finally, we'll explain how a capitalization table works and finish off with a brief overview of minority shareholder rights.
Take a break with your Local Wellness Advisor, a member of the Arts OASIS team and your peers. This is a time to relax with free tea and hot chocolate and an opportunity to chat about wellness and/or academic advising. Please bring your own mug to enjoy hot chocolate or tea.
This workshop will demystify and explain the various form of intellectual property (IP), namely, patents, industrial designs, copyright, trademarks, and trade secrets. We will then do some actual patent searching with our librarian April Colosimo using the DERWENT worldwide patent database.
Date: Nov. 26th, 2024
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Location: in-person @ Engine Seminar Room FDA 3 (Accessibility Map)
Take a break with your Local Wellness Advisor, a member of the Arts OASIS team and your peers. This is a time to relax with free tea and hot chocolate and an opportunity to chat about wellness and/or academic advising. Please bring your own mug to enjoy hot chocolate or tea.
November 28th, 2024: 12h00 to 13h00 EST
Hybrid - Room 1140 2001 91社区 College, 11th floor or on ZOOM
Speaker:
Over the past eleven years, the聽91社区 Engine Centre聽has been instrumental in fostering innovative technologies. Our annual Celebration of Innovation and Entrepreneurship highlights and celebrates our emerging technologically-based business ideas and start-ups at the Faculty as well as our technology innovators. The evening is an occasion to bring together students, faculty, accelerators, investors and alumni!
This workshop will provide an overview of the customer discovery process and then delve deeper into how to conduct customer interviews and how to iterate on your business model or lean canvas.
Date: Dec. 3rd, 2024
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Location: in-person @ Engine Seminar Room -FDA 3 (Accessibility Map)
Take a break with your Local Wellness Advisor, a member of the Arts OASIS team and your peers. This is a time to relax with free tea and hot chocolate and an opportunity to chat about wellness and/or academic advising. Please bring your own mug to enjoy hot chocolate or tea.
Co-organized with a graduate student from German Studies and Profs. Hang-Sun Kim and graduate students from
the University of Toronto鈥檚 Department of German Studies.
A professional development seminar for university teachers of German in graduate programs and early-career stages.聽Co-organized with a graduate student from German Studies and Professor Hang-Sun Kim and graduate students from the University of Toronto鈥檚 Department of German Studies.
Take a break with your Local Wellness Advisor, a member of the Arts OASIS team and your peers. This is a time to relax with free tea and hot chocolate and an opportunity to chat about wellness and/or academic advising. Please bring your own mug to enjoy hot chocolate or tea.