What we’re about
NEW DESCRIPTION:
We aim to organise online, hybrid and in-person startup pitch events, supporting with pitch deck and pitching feedback, and provide founder wellbeing events.
Further information and many meetups coming soon...
NOTE:
Jamal Maxey (the current Meetup group organiser and founder of www.pitchlounge.net) is the same Meetup organiser who run eight successful Business Model Canvas workshop meetups in 2019 - and promoted them from this group - with Alejandro Wagner and others from the FirstFriday Curated Network, and this was after running a weekly Business Model Canvas meetups at WeWork with Gerd Wenning throughout 2018.
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FORMER DESCRIPTION:
History, founders/organisers, associations, and interest levels...
This workshop series is part of a Business Development with the Business Model Canvas Meetup group where Gerd Wenning and Jamal Maxey used to organise weekly events at WeWork during 2018 in order to give feedback to others businesses and receive feedback on their own Edutech tutorial business.
The workshops were resumed in a monthly format - "Second Saturdays" - in December under the Amarte FirstFriday Curated Network supported by Jonas Vukic, Saptarshi Baksi, Alejandro Wagner, Paulina Herz, and Jamal Maxey.
Now the workshops take place on different Saturdays in any given month and the series is entitled "Startup Saturday Workshops"
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The Workshops - progress so far...
We begun with an overview of the Business Model Canvas with a guest speaker explaining theirs and how it has been an iterative process with their business planning and development (Workshop 1), we moved on to focus on two components of the canvas - customer segments and value propositions - and focused on the Value Proposition Canvas (Workshop 2), then we tested the respective assumptions of our customer segments and corresponding value propositions through studying, designing, and employing lean startup market research and customer interview methodologies (Workshops 3 & 4), followed by a look at Customer Relationships and Channels (Workshop 5), and now we turn to focus on the Revenue Streams segment of the Business Model Canvas (Workshop 6), 3rd Party Management (Workshop 7), cost structures from the perspective of a financial advisor (Workshop 8), and the upcoming workshop is scheduled for 16th November and focuses on presenting your business ideas - simple steps on how to engage your audience (Workshop 9).
RSVP below:
https://www.meetup.com/Berlin-StartupDevelopment-with-the-Business-Model-Canvas/events/265864109/
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Capacity Issues
We host 10-25 participants each time, half of which are returning members, and over 100 people are now interested in participating and joining the workshop series. So, please sign-up early, adjust your RSVP if you find you cannot attend, and please actively engage and help us make this workshop series a co-creativity and team-up success together.
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Pay-as-you-feel
The workshops are not free for the organisers (Meetup website fee, refreshments, stationery, etc). Although the guest experts offer their time for free and are trusted contacts and friends of the organisers predominantly from the Amarte (First Friday) Network, we always arrange a small gift for them (wine, book, etc).
So, we operate a pay-as-you-feel* fee for the workshop - with a recommended minimum donation of 5 euros each. Think carefully before, during and after "what is this workshop worth to me and what can I afford?"
