Description: The Maverick Angels Boot Camp for Entrepreneurs teaches the fundamental steps for becoming a successful entrepreneur, including time-tested strategies for raising start-up capital from angel and venture capital investors.

Many entrepreneurs have promising businesses but are not skilled in how best to present themselves to investors. At Maverick Angels, we understand our responsibility as angel investors to help entrepreneurs put together their investment pitch and to better articulate their ideas to inspire investors.

The one-day Boot Camp is designed to provide entrepreneurs with in-depth training regarding key strategies and approaches, both personal and professional, for achieving entrepreneurial success. This ground-breaking program permanently changes the way entrepreneurs view themselves and their companies, dramatically increasing their chances for funding.

The Boot Camp Will Teach You To:

* Make a Successful Investor Pitch
* Create an Effective Executive Summary
* Develop a High-Impact Slide Presentation
* Personally Align with Your Company Vision
* Understand the Playing Field with the Circle of Success
* Leverage Resources for Growth with the Collaboration Spiral
* Pressure-Test Your Plan — Become a Dreamer, Realist and Critic

Start Time: 10:00
Date: 2009-10-09
End Time: 18:00
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Gehry is a deconstructionist who designed, among many other things, the Walt Disney Concert Hall (pictured here).

Architecture and software development have one thing in common — they both require handing off work to teams with very different skill sets. Gehry points out that its in those transitions that design quality suffers:

“The problem I’ve been railing against is that good architecture gets infantalized by the process. The building is designed for the client, the client loves it, but when the client runs out of money they turn to the contractors who in turn say to ‘flatten this wall’ or ‘change this thing’, not knowing why things were designed that way.

So in order to get great design built you need to go through a rigorous process so that by the time it gets to the contractor there is precision, and this precision has been vetted from a cost standpoint so that the preservation of design begins before you begin building.”

- Frank Gehry

We find a similar risk in software development. A designer creates a beautiful mock, but then the developers either don’t understand or misunderstand how to build certain features. In either case, this results in the a discussion about certain features being too costly, and the original design quality suffers. Not good.

The extra effort it takes to write precise specifications will go a long way toward keeping your products great, saving you money, and even hiring the right team!

Charlie Rose | A conversation with architect Frank Gehry

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