Workshop: How to Start a Business Without a Business Plan 

A successful business start-up requires the combination of a marketable business idea and the ability to bring this idea to market profitably. There are numerous aspects involved in this process. How do you keep all these balls in the air at the same time?

Some recommend writing a business plan but this effort is very time consuming.  Moreover, it is hard to grasp element interactions and the plan can be out of date quickly due to changing market conditions.

An alternative is to prepare a one page Business Model Canvas which can be modified daily as conditions change until you are fixed on the correct business model and all its associated details.  

This workshop will review the process of generating a creative marketable business idea and provide an overview of the idea-to-market conversion using the Business Model Canvas as the scaffold for the business startup elements. 

The presenter: Vic Berniklau

Retired as a Senior Executive from the US Dept. of Energy after managing several organizational units in local DOE office, including MIS, Contracts, Facilities Planning and Budgets as well as initiated offices of Strategic Planning and Technology Transfer; With wife and son started two tech-based businesses achieving a level of $2M in annual revenue and 30 employees before turning businesses over to son who continues their growth; For the last 10 years, a Certified Mentor with SCORE, a 50 year old non-profit with over 10,000 volunteers, dedicated to helping startup and emerging businesses with free mentoring and low cost training. Has BS in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA; Taught at UNM at graduate level.