In this session, you'll learn how to build and improve the culture of your team and organization. You'll uncover the roadmap and strategy for the always-moving-target of culture building. When your cultural training is dialed in, then all current and future team members will help protect and amplify your culture rather than diluting or distorting it. Chris McAlister is a speaker, author and leadership coach. He is the founder of SightShift, a company that helps
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In this TIGER Talk, we will explore ways to build customer personas that allow you to reach them at the right time with the right messaging. Heather Harmon, Director of Marketing & Community Outreach for Rev1 Ventures, works daily to advise startups on a marketing strategy that can boost their bottom line. Be prepared dive into the world of your customers and walk in their shoes. What you’ll learn: • How to research your customers
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Corporations have almost unanimously accepted and internalized the need to ‘innovate’ to stay competitive. What exactly ‘innovation’ means, and how to go about it, is far less clear cut. You only need to scratch the surface of most industries in the US to discover the wreckage of discontinued, re-purposed or de-scaled innovation programs. Yet few doubt the need to continue to invest heavily in this thing called innovation. In fact, more and more CEOs are
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Ohio is currently the center of it all! While Silicon Valley has the Internet, we here in Ohio have the things, and as we shift into a world of robotics, IT hardware, autonomous vehicles and more, there has never been a better time to be investing in venture in the place that Forbes.com declared to be the No.1 place for startups - Ohio! There has never been a better time for startups and venture investors
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Whether you're raising your first funding round or just closed one, this session is for you! Learn how to build out a simple cashflow forecast and uncover the truth about your revenue model, your monthly burn and how many months -- or weeks -- of runway you've got. Michelle Murcia is the Founder + CEO of Book+Street. With a background in venture capital and finance, she knows what investors like to see and how to
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The planning necessary for a successful new company and product is immense. With all of the financial plans, marketing strategies, and product development etc., entrepreneurs often neglect what is one of their most important steps: protecting valued assets through proper application of intellectual property (IP). IP issues are often what slow down or stop venture capital deals, loans, and acquisitions etc. because the proper steps were not taken early in the life of the company.
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Angel investing can be ideal for many startups looking for funding and a champion. Join John Huston, a founding member of Ohio TechAngel Funds (OTAF), and Parker MacDonell, Managing Director of Ohio TechAngel Funds for a discussion about one of the largest angel groups in the U.S. OTAF invests in highly promising, Ohio-based companies in IT, advanced materials, and life sciences. More than 300 high net worth, accredited investors have joined one or more of
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Do you have big ideas for a project, business or program – but it’s stuck on the tarmac? Maybe you know where you want to go? And, maybe you’ve got all the right people on board, but you haven’t found the right runway? Whether you’re looking to adventure into a new service, new product, or new system, our speaker, Cori Rowley of Design Central, can help. She will show us a highly effective process that
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Straight from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas: In today’s highly technological world, it has become increasingly important to be aware of the technology trends emerging each and every year. It is especially important to know these trends to ensure success for your company or organization, but you first must know what’s valuable and lasting. That’s where our speaker comes in! Back by request in 2020, Buckeye Interactive will share the latest software and
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Do you want to engage with your clients or people in market segments you want to serve? Then, why not consider hosting your own event where you can invite your clients and prospects to experience your product? Effective events don’t have to be huge or cost a million dollars! In this TIGER Talk, Jacob Ramey will discuss strategies for amplifying your events to create big impact. Jacob will discuss how to plan the Where, the
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Amid constantly rising customer expectations, companies must develop a Customer Experience Strategy that is Enabled by Innovation and Informed by Analytics to stay competitive in today’s customer experience industry. Our speaker, Dave Cherry, will share 3 simple equations that are critical to success in the customer experience industry and show how to apply these equations to fuel growth in market share, revenue, and profits. Dave Cherry, principal of Cherry Advisory, LLC, brings over 20 years
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Titanic Syndrome -- a corporate disease in which organizations facing disruption create their own downfall through arrogance, excessive attachment to the past success, or an inability to recognize the new and emerging reality -- has killed many companies. How many companies are dying, exactly? Well, consider this: in 1955, the original Fortune 500 list featured the 500 (duh!) best companies in the world. Today, only 60 of them are still in business. That's a sinking
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This TIGER Talk is based Dr. Gleb Tsipursky's new book, "Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters." Do you want to avoid business disasters -- minor mishaps or major calamities -- that threaten can bankruptcy and bring down promising careers? Behavioral Economics and Cognitive Neuroscience studies reveal that dangerous judgment errors called "cognitive biases" trigger the poor decisions at the root of countless business disasters caused
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Emerging entrepreneurs mistakenly think they need to grow fast and at all costs. What they don’t realize is “pedal to the metal” growth can be detrimental to the business, and instead they should strive to achieve the right rate of growth. There is a rational, mathematical model around how much your business should grow based on what it needs. To calculate that model, you need to set realistic and intentional goals of how to live
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This event is POSTPONED. We intend to announce a future date soon. The current business environment demands that organizations protect themselves from external and internal information security threats. Data breaches such as the Equifax and Capital One security incidents show how third-party technological providers can expose companies to information security risks that could lead to financial and reputational losses. For startups that provide technological solutions, it is essential that they take into consideration information security
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This event has been rescheduled to July 31st, 2020. Whether we use Excel, Google Sheets, PowerPoint, Google Data Studio, Tableau, R, some other platform, or (most likely) some combination of platforms, at the end of the day, in business, a core mechanism we use for communicating with our stakeholders is data visualization. The difference between an excellent visualization and a mediocre one can easily be the difference between whether a stakeholder understands and acts upon
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