ONLINE LET'S BRAINSTORM|Should Early-Stage Bootstrap or Seek VC Investment?

What is this open conversation about? 

If you are a startup founder, you know very well the struggle that we encounter regarding how to allocate time between hunting down VC/angel investor money and build a working prototype. Sometimes, for most of us, it becomes a chicken-and-egg paradox.

I am opening up a virtual roundtable for us to share, discuss, and brainstorm strategies and tactics in dealing with this phenomenon. The roundtable will be accompanied by a lecture on the fundamentals of

• Stages of Startup Leadership and Funding
• Innovation Accounting (basics)

I look forward to sharing our experiences for a fruitful discussion!

Who needs to attend?

Recommended for Early-stage startups and innovative teams within corporate firms

Limited Slots to 15 Attendees for Quality Q&A

• Entrepreneurs: Solo Rider 
• Founder teams: CXOs
• Designers: UX/UI Designers, Product Managers
• Builders: Engineers/Devs
• Freelancers: Self-employed one-business Boss
• Consultants: Self-employed mentors/Coaches
• User Interface designers who wish to expand their career towards Design Thinking Umbrella (focus on UX Design)

Logistics:

You will receive a pre-masterclass survey, zoom URL and password for the webinar access, few days prior to the event. Anchor time: 11 AM NEW YORK TIME

FAQs

• Limited slots! We like quality discussions
• This is Online! From the comfort of your home, office, laptop, mobile. 
• Anchor timezone is New York Time (we will send you a message with zoom meeting – Eventbrite calendar has a glitch)
• Ticket Non-Refundable: my proprietary work, in the form of audiovisual recording and lecture notes, will be shared with you exclusively. 
• I send the zoom URL and instructions 1-day prior to class to make sure the ticketing is officially closed. 

Who Am I?

In one word: a Polymath

I build multiple businesses and shoestring the world (digital nomadism)

• 2019 Recipient of MU School of Medicine's Donald Lindberg Award for Health IT Innovation
• R&D | Lab Manager – Duke University, Biomedical Engineering
• Former University Lecturer at ENSET Biomedical Engineering School
• Peer Reviewer at IEEE Journal of Biomedical & Health Informatics (JBHI)
• Peer Reviewer at Journal for Medical Internet Research (JMIR)
• Public Speaker: USA, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Morocco, Philippines (+30 talks)
• Author of “Gamified Psychosphere”
• HIT | Design Thinking Consultant at medverselab.com

• Holder of Engineering Diploma in Manufacturing Engineering and Management with Specialization in Biomedical Engineering
• Advanced Degree (MS.PhD) in Health Informatics
• Co-founder of TechVerse Coworking Space, Rabat City, Morocco – the first tech-oriented coworking space in the kingdom.

• Industrial background in Early-Startup Business Management and Operations (since I managed an incubator at Techverse)

• Chief Software Architect of Sutures App – Gamified Gastro-intestinal e-Surgery Simulator (Check it out! )
• Research Fellow at the University of Missouri’s Center for Biomedical Informatics.
• Chief Design Thinker / Information Architect at Sinclair School of Nursing – HEAR App
• Cofounder of GINA Health LLC (www.meetgina.co) - Patent Pending*

visit me: katusop.com

tweet me: @itskatusop

WELCOME ABOARD!