Too many new businesses are founded on innovative ideas but felled by the day-to-day realities of running a startup. From branding your business to choosing an entity type to preparing for seeking financing or loans, the stumbling blocks are numerous, especially if you don’t know what you don’t know.

This panel presentation, featuring Matchstick Alliance members Gardner Design, AGH, and Foulston Siefkin, offers an overview of the top 5 business problems commonly seen by these advisors, and delivers tips on how you can watch out for those traps. 

http://matchstickalliance.com/

Speakers:

• Bill Gardner, president, Gardner Design (and NXTUS board member)

• John Trowbridge, CPA and senior vice president of business development, AGH

• Francis Baalmann, business attorney and partner, Foulston Siefkin

GrowthX, a Silicon Valley venture capital group, has formalized a method they use with their own portfolio companies to understand if they truly have product-market fit and to help get them there quickly and systematically. 

Founding Partner of GrowthX, Max Menke, will lead you through an interactive workshop building on work you have already done around customer discovery and product-market fit.

Workshop Overview: All about finding product-market fit. This workshop introduces everything you need to go to market, engage with your customers and win revenue. Products and markets may be unique, but the path to product-market fit is not. Stop improvising your go-to-market efforts, and start growing revenue with intent. Highlights of the session include how to:

• Stop selling and start seeking fit

• Stop wasting precious runway looking for Mr. or Ms. Right, and instead focus entirely on your Mr. or Ms. Right Now.

• Avoid the scale trap

• Maximize your sales productivity by finding prospects through smart targeting and disqualifying poor prospects quickly

• The distinct and measurable reasons why people buy.

• The workshop will finish off with a Q&A session.

• Recommended Pre-Reading: Ideal Customer Profile (ICP)

This is a virtual workshop held on Zoom, and we’ll have a simultaneous “watch party” at Groover Labs!

This month we'll be alongside some of Wichita's most engaged entrepreneurs - including Ramsey Jamoul with UEA and Andrea Stang from The Hive - to talk about how you can jump in and get involved in our entrepreneurial ecosystem.

So much is possible in our city when individuals identify a need in the market, leverage available resources, and make things happen!

Expect a lively and inspiring conversation about what's going on in Wichita, and how to be a part of it.

For now, we are still doing hybrid events - both at Groover Labs, and on Zoom. (Either way, please RSVP via the Zoom registration page.)