VJF Knowledge Series: Building Entrepreneurial Business Value 

The Venture Jobs Foundation is a 501.c.3 public charity that invests in small businesses bringing jobs to distressed neighborhoods.  We periodically organize events addressing knowledge or skills important to the growth of regional businesses.

Join us at a VJF expert presentation and panel that will benefit those interested in maximizing the underlying financial and operational value of their business.

Growing businesses face negotiations and transasctions critical to their progress.  These include key licensing agreements, joint ventures, mergers, acquisitions and buyins or buyouts ssociated with management succession or liquidity interests.  In all cases, stronger underlying business value improves the likelihood of success.

Join us in a program offering registrants an advance opportunity to assess and score their current business value using Core Value, a proprietary methodology developed in association with MIT. 

The underlying Core Value methodology will be reviewed at the event.  Key areas of improvement will be highlighted and aggregate registrant scores will be contrasted with a large national database.  Each registrant will learn the key areas where improvement should most significantly impact the value of their businesses.

Following the presentation, a professional panel will discuss representative growth related transactions and how strong business value, or the lack of it, influenced the outcome.

A Q&A session will follow the panel comments to allow registrants to address issues unique to their business.

Building Entrepreneurial Business  Value   

           Topics and Participants

Presentation: Assessing and Building Value in Your Business
     
Bruce Peters, Esq.
      CEO, WCEOHQ Forums, LLC
      Rochester, New York

After the presentation by Mr. Peters, a professional panel will discuss typical transactions where the underlying value of client businesses had a direct impact on success in negotiations and outcomes. 

Panel Contributors:

The Impact of Value on Transaction Structure
     John Moragne, Esq.                               
     Attorney, Nixon Peabody, LLP
     Rochester, New York

Financial Management and Key Indicators of Value
     David P. Veniskey, CPA
     Partner, EFP Rotenberg, LLP.
     Rochester, New York

Key Factors in Private Equity Investment and Pricing
     Baris Civelek
     Partner, Summer Street Capital Partners
     Buffalo, New York

Building Value through Management Strength
     Gary Baker
     President & CEO, Cochran, Cochran and Yale, LLC
     Rochester, New York

After the penel discussion, a brief Q&A session will conclude the agenda.  A closing networking period will allow event registrants to discuss unique business valuation or transaction issues.