Equity Fab workshops fostering technology companies with big ideas that address today’s important challenges in nanotechnology, energy, semiconductors, electronics, new materials, biotech, and life sciences. Equity Fab workshops provide expertise and strategic relationships that turn clever ideas into successful global cleantech companies by positioning technology and business concept from early stage of R&D.
Equity Fab invites commercial spinoffs of academic institutions, industrial groups, and private companies to take advantage of our workshops.
Workshops plan and schedule
To participate, companies should submit regular Executive Summary. During the workshop selected Executive Summaries will be discussed by moderators(s) in presence of other participating companies to emulate standard Silicon Valley venture capital technical due diligence process.
The most common outcome of the typical workshop is “what not to do”, based on the detailed insights of industrial and cutting edge trends in each potential niche, in-depth market research.
The best approach for the workshops is to do things by example.
During the workshop, sample companies/projects selected that are common in terms of commercialization efforts. Open discussion for workshop participants is centered around those selected projects in great details.
It starts from the market prospective.
- Assuming the funding is available and the project is completed the way the owners/developers envision it, can the final product be sold on the market?
- What is the market?
- What is the size of this market?
- Once sales get started, what investor can expect as his investment return and when (annual ROI)?
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At the end, it goes all the way back to the question – why this particular product was chosen as the subject of development at the first place?
Usually by going over of such examples with the owners/developers in presence of other workshop participants that are not related to that sample projects (but most likely are working or plan to work on their own projects), it brings far-reaching, sometimes very unexpected effects. If there is something wrong with the project (at its any aspect; and oftentimes there are many things that are wrong or not 100% right), it can be easily demonstrated what exactly is not right. Participants see what the problems are, and they start thinking collectively (brainstorming) if and how this can be fixed. At the same time they can see on others’ examples what can be wrong with their own projects, and how to avoid others’ mistakes.
Startups found this is by far the most effective training.
To participate in workshops, Equity Fab require minimum one month in advance to get acquainted with the projects for selection of those sample projects that will serve the best for workshops goal. The project owners have to agree to have their project discussed at workshops.
