INVENT OREGON
BOOTCAMP
Invent Oregon presents the 2020 virtual bootcamp for participating students. We have curated speakers and workshops to help teams gain skills and access resources to help them take their inventions and ideas to the next level.
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Each individual InventOR student must participate in at least 2 workshops and/or guest speaker sessions. Sign up for a session by clicking "Register." You will be directed to EventBrite to complete registration. You will receive pre-reading for your session one week prior to the event. Pre-reading and related activities will take between 5-15 minutes to complete and must be completed prior to the session. We will track attendance based on the completion of your pre-reading assignment and your attendance in the virtual session - you must complete/attend both to count toward attendance requirement.
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All teams are also required to attend one pitch coaching session in addition to the 2 workshops/guest speaker events. Signups for pitch coaching will open in July.
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Teams who want to do so can also sign up for an optional 15-minute legal consultation session. These legal consultations are being generously offered by Stoel Rives, a premier law firm focused on startup legal issues.
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If you have any questions about the Bootcamp please contact Yesenia Gallardo Avila, program manager, at ygalla2@pdx.edu
June 23, 2020 (Tues) 5pm - 6pm
Customer Discovery
How to understand your customer and tools for gathering customer feedback.
By Charlie Lambropoulos
Chief Product Officer, Wing Warp
June 26, 2020 (Fri) 9 am - 2 pm
ProgresS
presentations
All InventOR teams will present a pitch and live or pre-recorded demo and share your team's progress to a panel of mentors.
July 1, 2020 (Wed) 3 pm - 4 pm
Design
Thinking
Using the IDEO framework
By Himalaya Rao-Potlapally,
Assistant Program Manager,
PSU Center for Entrepreneurship
July 9, 2020 (Thurs) 12 pm - 1:15 pm
Project
Management
Kanban boards for managing teams and workflow
By Himalaya Rao-Potlapally,
Assistant Program Manager,
PSU Center for Entrepreneurship
July 14, 2020 (Tues) 9 am - 10:30 am
Intellectual
Property
Learn the basics of intellectual property with a focus on patents
By Tara Ho, Patent Classifier in the Office of International Patent Cooperation, USPTO
July 23, 2020 (Thurs) 4 pm - 5:30 pm
financiaL
projections
Tools and real-world examples for financial projections
By Ana Inclan,
VP Business Lender Craft 3
July 30, 2020 (Thurs) 1 pm - 2:30 pm
AcceleratoR Panelists
What to ask yourself before applying for an accelerator or incubator
Panel:
Caroline Cummings, RAIN
Julia Baldwin, PSBA
Risk Turozcy, PIE Accelerator
August 5, 2020 (Wed) 1 pm - 2:30 pm
MARKEt
RESEARCH
What is Market Research and why it’s important: TAM, SAM, SOM
By Yesenia Gallardo Avila
Program Manager
PSU Center for Entrepreneurship
August 11, 2020 (Tues) 5 pm - 6:30 pm
Pitching &Demos
Best practices for pitching and demos
By Yesenia Gallardo Avila
Program Manager
PSU Center for Entrepreneurship
August 24 - September 4, 2020
individual team coaching
Teams sign up for individual team coaching with InventOR staff
September 4, 2020 (Fri) 1 pm - 2:30 pm
After
Inventor
Resources and strategies for funding your startup
Panelists TBD
September 9, 2020 (Wed) 10 am - 11 am
Vertue
Lab
Startup Resources
for Cleantech innovators
Panelists TBD