Events Calendar

Finance Fundamentals

(3 sessions, 4 hours each)

Entrepreneur’s Toolkit Workshops are experiential, hands-on workshops facilitated by experienced entrepreneurs. The workshops offer ventures tools, mentoring and peer feedback to solve specific problems and develop essential business components.

In each four-hour session you will generate a deliverable that you will use frequently in the business development process.

“However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.” –Unknown

Do you understand the financial metrics of your business? Do you want to be able to speak knowledgeably to your accountant, bank or investors about your company finances, or to manage a plan to ensure that you have the necessary cash available when your business needs it? This three-part workshop series is designed to help entrepreneurs understand basic financial concepts, build a forecasting model to use in running their businesses and identify key concepts of valuation that apply to their businesses.

Participant Profile:

This workshop is geared toward entrepreneurs who are working on their business model, starting to incur expenses and potentially starting to generate revenue, and who are looking to get control of company finances to support decision making for future growth and potential investment.

Pre-requisites:

• Completion of the Starting Lean: Business Model workshop
• Draft of Osterwalder’s Business Model Canvas
• Basic understanding of spreadsheets/formulas

Other Requirements for Attendance:

Workshop Schedule

Session 1 – Preparing your Business Forecast // January 24, 2019 from 1:00p.m. to 5:00p.m.

In this session, we help you understand the basics of financial statements and begin to build a detailed cash-flow forecast to be used in making day-to-day business decisions around growth.

Deliverable: Expense cash flow template for your business.

Session 2 – Understanding Revenue Forecasting and Funding // January 31, 2019 from 1:00p.m. to 5:00p.m.

In the second session, we will demonstrate how to add revenue estimates to your cash-flow forecast, taking you through inputs such as pricing, sales funnel and revenue types. The result will be a complete cash-flow forecasting model you can use in your business.

Deliverable: Revenue cash-flow template for your business

Session 3 – Business Valuation and Tutorial Session // February 7, 2019 from 1:00p.m. to 5:00p.m.

First half: Outline basic concepts surrounding different types of business valuations, and the inputs and factors that impact valuation from an investor perspective.

Second half: Working session/finance lab.

Deliverable: Basic complete 12-month cash flow forecast for your business.

Please note: Doors open for this session at 12:30 p.m. and instruction begins at 1:00 p.m sharp.

From the foyer of The Convergence Centre, please go left and head downstairs. From the bottom of the stairs, turn left and the MVP Lab will be on your right.

On Monday, January 28^th, Thames Valley District School Board will be hosting an information session about our School Within a School program and we are seeking your input as we develop our Community Within a School initiative.

We have prioritized working with community partners (not for profit, small, medium, & large businesses, government, entrepreneurs, and charities) to create authentic challenges that will engage our students in the world outside of their classrooms and make learning relevant.

Why…

Our students are learning in new ways, facing new challenges, and live in a more complex environment than ever before. TVDSB aims to engage students in their current learning and prepare them for the uncertain future they are about to inherit.

What…

Our School Within a School program takes students out of the traditional siloed structures and into teams that work on real world challenges. We need community partners more than ever to collaborate with us and let our students know that their ideas matter.

How…

Meet with us to learn more about School Within a School, our vision for Community Within a School, and help us to define and develop partnerships that are good for our students, teachers, and YOU.

When…

January 28^th at 2:00 pm or 6:00 pm at Innovation Works London (201 King St).

***ALL TICKET SALES AND PROCEEDS WILL BE DONATED TO ANOVA WOMENS SHELTERS***

Those who are active in the London community know just how important business owners and entrepreneurs are to our city. In celebration of a fresh start and a coming together of Forest City business owners, we have a special night planned for Londoners.

Women are the backbone of many of our lives, and not surprisingly, several thriving businesses we know and love in London. Come celebrate the successes of the business women & entrepreneurs of London at the Powerhouse Brewery.

There will be food, drinks and of course beer.

Location & Parking Info: Please note that the best way to access the brewery is on the far side of the Kelloggs building. Take Dundas Street one block east of Kellogg Lane, turn right onto Eleanor and then right on King Street (Liquid Air on the corner). The brewery will be straight ahead on King.

#PowerUpLondon

Ready to jump online, but unsure of what platform is right for your product or service?
Join us for a morning with rTraction’s Marketing Strategist, Alanna Williams and Creative Director, James Kingsley for an overview of the most popular eCommerce platforms and the best content strategies to pair them with!

Topics to include:

• Determining what eCommerce solution is best for you (with specific focus on Shopify and Squarespace)
• Approaches to content marketing for products vs services
• Integrating social media campaigns and targeted advertising into your eCommerce sales strategy
• The importance of storytelling to a successful eCommerce endeavour

Join Legal Hackers London for an evening of legal tech to talk law, innovation and business with special guests. Take the chance to hear field experts from London and Toronto’s legal innovation spheres discuss AI, e-discovery, information management/KM, blockchains and more.

Follow us on Twitter @LegalHackersLON.

Our January 30 Experts:

• Evichat: Puneet Tiwari – An E-Discovery tool that allows lawyers to effectively collect and review mobile and social media communications for litigation
• CiteRight Inc. Aaron Wernner– Lets lawyer’s find and recycle/reuse colleagues’ knowledge, experience and success.
• Three Lefts – Matt Rappard– E-Contracts allows you to work with those you trust, and those you don’t know. A block chain entity.

Who Should Attend:

Lawyers, entrepreneurs, business people, students, everyone. Join us for the second meeting of Legal Hackers London, a meet up for those interested in learning about, designing, discussing, developing, and implementing different solutions to legal issues to better meet consumer and societal needs. The intersection of law, technology and innovation is at the heart of what we focus on.

Legal Hackers is a global organization, with chapters all around the world that brings people together and encourages new ideas through networking, discussion and speakers. All are welcome. It is free. At this meeting, those interested in being part of the ongoing board/executive will be encouraged to step forward. Legal Hackers London is looking for volunteers to get involved—there are many ways to contribute while learning more about law and tech.

JOIN: Legal Hackers London