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SUMMARY:[:en]Extreme User Research for Startups with Vincent Chang[:]
DESCRIPTION:About this event\n\n\n\n\nAt the end of the day\, it’s all about your Product. Too often\, companies build products and services focused on feature sets to beat the competition\, instead of listening more to users. User research is a critical component of the product development cycle\, but rarely do founders\, product managers or engineers go out into the field—relying instead on generic focus groups\, click data and surveys. \n  \nWhat is extreme user testing\, and how can entrepreneurs employ it to gain a unique advantage? Special guest Vincent Chang\, Head of Culture at SmartNews\, Inc. and Center Advisory Board Member\, will share his journey of extreme user testing across 26 US States—where he met with small town factory workers\, farmers and even presidential candidates—and how these insights lead to winning product features for SmartNews and its millions of users. \nYou will learn: \n\nWhy venturing outside of your home with field research creates a competitive advantage\nHow to get strangers to give you candid and useful feedback (and how to avoid useless feedback)\nHow to take this feedback and rapidly test it in your product\n\n  \n  \nOUR SPECIAL GUEST \n\n\n\n\n\nVincent Chang\nHead of Culture at SmartNews\, Inc.\nCenter Advisory Board Member\n  \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nThe Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center is a 501c(3) public charity whose mission it is to make entrepreneurship accessible to all. We deliver world-class resources and mentoring to enable every entrepreneur across the globe to realize their maximum potential. Please join us and make your gift to ensure these transformative programs may continue to reach the underserved. \n\n\n\n\nAll Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center programs and services are extended to the public on a nondiscriminatory basis. Reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities will be made if requested at least 48 hours in advance of this event; please send an email to webinarhost@thecenter.nasdaq.org with the subject header ACCOMMODATION REQUEST. For assistance with registration or other technical difficulties\, please contact zooey.raveau@thecenter.nasdaq.org
URL:https://caccmn.org/event/%e4%b8%ad%e6%96%87-extreme-user-research-for-startups-with-vincent-chang/
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SUMMARY:[:en]How to Find and Close More Deals: Sales for Startups[:]
DESCRIPTION:When and where\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDate and time\n\nWed\, November 16\, 2022\, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM PST\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation\n\nOnline \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\n\n\nEvery business needs sales to drive operation and eventually growth\, and knowing the right way to approach conversations with potential consumers will surely set you and your business up for success. But how do we find these opportunities in the first place\, and what can we do as entrepreneurs to ensure that we close the deal? Join us and special guest Mayra Ceja of the Business Development and Partnerships team at Hubspot to learn about the dos and don’ts of selling and how you can implement these ideas into your own sales strategy for your business. \nKey Takeaways \n\nHow to find promising sales opportunities\nThe most important things to avoid during sales dealings\nHow to ultimately close the deal\n\nOUR SPECIAL GUEST \n\n\n\n\n\nMayra Ceja\nMayra Ceja is on a mission to help startups grow and scale. She is a marketing and sales expert and leads Business development at Hubspot. Prior\, she was a venture capitalist and has invested in 21 startups. \nReceived her MBA from Wharton and BA from Princeton University. She also host a podcast Venture Unplugged. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nThe Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center is a 501c(3) public charity whose mission it is to make entrepreneurship accessible to all. We deliver world-class resources and mentoring to enable every entrepreneur across the globe to realize their maximum potential. Please join us and make your gift to ensure these transformative programs may continue to reach the underserved. \n\n\n\n\nAll Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center programs and services are extended to the public on a nondiscriminatory basis. Reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities will be made if requested at least 48 hours in advance of this event; please send an email to webinarhost@thecenter.nasdaq.org with the subject header ACCOMMODATION REQUEST. For assistance with registration or other technical difficulties\, please contact anna.vanmaanen@thecenter.nasdaq.org
URL:https://caccmn.org/event/how-to-find-and-close-more-deals-sales-for-startups/
CATEGORIES:Business Event
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SUMMARY:[:en]ART-TRAIN INDIVIDUAL ARTIST TRAINING[:]
DESCRIPTION:Event Details\nThe free Art-Train Individual Artist Training is for artists who are interested in building on their existing skills to collaborate in and with their communities through their local agencies\, non-profits\, and arts councils. Artists will deepen practices around creative problem solving\, equitable community engagement\, and creating arts-based strategies to address recovery efforts. \nAfter taking a synchronous virtual training\, artists receive one year of ongoing virtual support through an online resource library and optional bi-weekly group coaching rooms with Art-Train staff\, experts and an expanding network of peers (every other Thursday). \nThe goal of this training is to help artists identify how they can contribute to equitable recovery & rebuilding by a) understanding and advocating for local artists’ role in community and economic development\, and b) by building their skills in equitable collaboration. \nWe will share ways to engage and influence the agencies and organizations that are eligible to receive and deploy American Rescue Plan block grants (allocated to every City\, County\, State and Tribal Territory in the US) to create programming that engages local artists in recovery. \n  \n\n\nAdditional Information\nTraining technology requirements \nTrainings require stable internet connection as they will take place virtually over zoom. Registrants will be invited to attend with cameras on throughout and ideally have a microphone. Out of respect for the experience of all registrations\, we request that participants commit to the full 3-hour training. \nTo know more\, click here. \n  \n\n\nSpecial Instructions\nPlease click ” Reserve Ticket” above to register for this online event. \nFee: No Cost. \nOnline Platform: Meetings are designed to be a collaborative event with all participants being able to turn on their video and audio\, and see who else is in attendance. This session will not be recorded. This event will be captioned using AI generated live transcription.
URL:https://caccmn.org/event/art-train-individual-artist-training/
CATEGORIES:Business Event
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SUMMARY:[:en]Virtual AAPI Business Summit[:]
DESCRIPTION:Join us for this free virtual event featuring engaging presentations\, inspirational lounge chats\, and workshops led by experts. This unique opportunity is designed to give you the skills\, tools\, and resources you need to grow and sustain your business. \nWe look forward to seeing you soon. \nJin Chen\, Chinese Chamber of Commerce – Minnesota\, Executive Director\njin@caccmn.org \nJohn B. Yang\, Hmong Chamber of Commerce – Minnesota\, Board Chair\njohn@vizionseo.com \nAnge Hwang\, Asian Media Access\nangehwang@amamedia.org \nPoh Lin Khoo\, Khoo Consulting\, CEO\nplk@khooconsulting.com \nThe event includes 4 tracks focused on these key areas: \nBusiness Communication and Marketing\nDiversity\, Equity and Inclusion\nThe Government Contract and Business Certification Process\nSmall Business Financial Management and Investment Trends\nPanels and discussion topics may include: \nBusiness Start-up 101\nBusiness Financing\nUnique Asian American Entrepreneurs’ Innovations and Business Trends\nAsian American Investment Trends\nBuilding an Equitable Recovery Framework for Asian American Entrepreneurs\nFrom Essential Worker to Essential Entrepreneur: WELLNESS Economy Entrepreneurship Opportunities\nGovernment Contracting Opportunities\nE-Commerce and Marketing\nThe Changing Landscape for Entertainment and Hospitality Industries: How we can learn from the K-pop Industry.\nThe Summit is designed to support people who are interested in starting their own businesses\, and for current business owners seeking to expand. The Summit focuses on equipping entrepreneurs who are AAPI immigrants and refugees.
URL:https://caccmn.org/event/virtual-aapi-business-summit/
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SUMMARY:[:en]Aspiring Entrepreneurs[:]
DESCRIPTION:When and where\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDate and time\n\nTue\, November 8\, 2022\, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM PST\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation\n\nOnline \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\n\n\nIn this interactive session\, we will explore entrepreneurship and identify your entrepreneurial inspirations through stories and activities. We will help you answer questions like\, “how can entrepreneurship support my business dreams?” and “what can entrepreneurship mean for me?” \nAt the end of this session\, you’ll be able to: \n\nIdentify your entrepreneurial inspirations and aspirations.\nExplore different journeys entrepreneurs experience.\nFormulate next steps to pursue curiosity and learning related to entrepreneurship.\n\nAs a participant in this session\, you will get first access to the Starting Line Entrepreneur Toolkit in partnership with Airbnb. Activities included in this toolkit are designed to take you through exploratory steps to help crystalize any business ideas you have and put them into action. \n  \n  \nOUR SPECIAL GUESTS \n\n\n\n\n\nKamy Taylor\nDirector\, Milestone Circles\, The Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center\nKamy Twiggs Taylor has dedicated her nearly 20-year career to promoting equitable opportunities for underserved communities. She brings over a decade of experience in program leadership\, including the design and implementation of programs and data evaluation. Pioneering new programs\, Kamy steered growth and expansion efforts in nonprofit and corporate sectors. \nPrior to joining the Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center\, Kamy worked with Reading Partners serving in both Executive Director and Program Director roles where she led operations\, program strategy\, partnership engagement\, workforce development and Diversity\, Equity and Inclusion initiatives. Kamy specializes in leveraging innovative strategies to propel the development of new programs\, regional initiatives\, and organization-spanning operations; she has a strong community focus which informs all aspects of her programmatic leadership and vision. \n\n\n\n\n\nPınar M. Çelik\, PhD\nDigital Instructional Designer\nPinar is an experienced instructional designer and dedicated edupreneur. She has over a decade long experience designing and developing learning solutions for higher education and adult education in formal and informal settings. Pinar is fluent with many delivery models including instructor-led\, blended\, and online. She has a master’s degree in Labor Economics and a PhD in Curriculum and Instructional Technology specializing in adult education. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nThe Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center is a 501c(3) public charity whose mission it is to make entrepreneurship accessible to all. We deliver world-class resources and mentoring to enable every entrepreneur across the globe to realize their maximum potential. Please join us and make your gift to ensure these transformative programs may continue to reach the underserved. \n\n\n\n\nAll Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center programs and services are extended to the public on a nondiscriminatory basis. Reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities will be made if requested at least 48 hours in advance of this event; please send an email to webinarhost@thecenter.nasdaq.org with the subject header ACCOMMODATION REQUEST. For assistance with registration or other technical difficulties\, please contact zooey.raveau@thecenter.nasdaq.org
URL:https://caccmn.org/event/aspiring-entrepreneurs/
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SUMMARY:[:en]Author in Residence: HANGRY: A Startup Journey with Mike Evans[:]
DESCRIPTION:GrubHub founder Mike Evans reveals the inside story of how a pizza craving turned into a hobby changed the way we eat. \n\n\n\n\nWhen and where\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDate and time\n\nWed\, November 2\, 2022\, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM PDT\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation\n\nOnline \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\n\n\nHungry and tired one night\, Mike wanted a pizza\, but getting a pizza delivered was a pain in the neck. He didn’t want to call a million restaurants to see what was open. So\, as an avid coder\, he created GrubHub in his spare bedroom to figure out who delivered to his apartment. Then\, armed with a $140 check from his first customer and ignoring his crushing college debt he quit his job. Over the next decade\, Mike grew his little delivery guide into the world’s premier online ordering website. In doing so\, he entered the company of an elite few entrepreneurs to take a startup from an idea all the way to an IPO. \nBut it wasn’t as easy as pie. GrubHub’s journey from Mike’s bedroom to Wall Street doesn’t fit into how business schools teach entrepreneurship. In Hangry\, he details step-by-step the grind of building an innovative business\, with each chapter including sharp lessons for entrepreneurs and startups\, that Mike learned on the fly as he piloted GrubHub’s meteoric rise by the seat of his pants. Hangry reveals a decade of 80-hour work weeks\, detailed steps of how Mike garnered his first customers\, his intense hunt for financing dollars\, cliffhanger acquisitions\, the near collapse of his marriage\, a brutally difficult merger\, and a pair of tumultuous quit/unquit moments\, all to steer the company to become one of the most dynamic\, successful\, and revolutionary startups in the world. With a razor-sharp wit\, Mike reveals surprising insights about how people approach food\, and hard-won truths about how startups succeed—and even harder-won truths about how startups fail. \nShocking everyone\, at the pinnacle of startup success\, Mike leaves it all behind\, quitting the company he started to bike across the United States in search of balance. But eventually\, the grand vistas of America bring the lessons of the past into focus\, driving the realization that for entrepreneurs a hunger for success doesn’t end\, and he considers starting another company\, even more ambitious than the first. \n  \nOUR SPECIAL GUEST \n\n\n\n\n\nMike Evans\nAuthor\, HANGRY: A Startup Journey\nMike Evans founded GrubHub in his spare bedroom and grew it into the multi-billion-dollar online food delivery colossus that is a household name. After leaving GrubHub post-IPO\, he punted it all to ride his bike across the United States. His book Hangry comes out November 2022. More recently\, Mike founded Fixer.com\, an on-demand handyperson B-corp that trains its employees from scratch. Mike is passionate about professional and personal vision\, and a strong proponent of impact businesses – for profit companies that use their power to bring about positive social change. \n\n\n\n\n\nMatt Paget\nBoard Member at Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center; Founder at Extension PR\nModerator\nNasdaq Entrepreneurial Center board member Matt Paget is a communications advisor to some of the world’s most innovative companies and entrepreneurs. He is co-founder of Extension PR\, a Los Angeles-based agency that works with category-leading brands in the technology and consumer spaces. Prior to founding Extension in 2011\, Matt worked at global agencies Rogers & Cowan and Hill & Knowlton\, and began his career at Citigroup. He has previously co-chaired Auction Napa Valley and the Hospital For Special Surgery Junior Committee. \n\n\n\n\n\nThe Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center is a 501c(3) public charity whose mission it is to make entrepreneurship accessible to all. We deliver world-class resources and mentoring to enable every entrepreneur across the globe to realize their maximum potential. Please join us and make your gift to ensure these transformative programs may continue to reach the underserved. \n\n\n\n\nAll Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center programs and services are extended to the public on a nondiscriminatory basis. Reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities will be made if requested at least 48 hours in advance of this event; please send an email to webinarhost@thecenter.nasdaq.org with the subject header ACCOMMODATION REQUEST. For assistance with registration or other technical difficulties\, please contact cody.raveau@thecenter.nasdaq.org
URL:https://caccmn.org/event/author-in-residence-hangry-a-startup-journey-with-mike-evans/
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