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Seminar Series: How to Write a Business Plan
This seminar walks you through the basics of putting your business idea on paper. It teaches the basic content of what is required and gives you help in thinking through some of the issues. It is aimed at folks who have a business idea but need to think through all of the details. It is the information that you need to attract people, money, and clients but it needs to be written. It helps you to describe your product or service, your market and your potential clients. Going through the Business Plan process reveals to you the strengths and weaknesses of your idea and how to improve it. It gives you the confidence to sell your idea to others. This process forces you to think through the critical issues in an organized way and sharpen your business skills. The business plan will help you prepare your roadmap for success.
Date: Saturday, May 17, 2014
Time: 1PM - 3PM
Location: MIT E51-315 (Building E51 Room 315) (Map)
Parking: Amherst St. E51 Lot (Map)
Public Transportation: Take the MBTA Red Line and get off at Kendall/MIT station.
The topics that will be covered during this seminar include:
- Why need a business plan
- Who needs a business plan
- Business plan format
- Executive summary
- Vision statement
- Milestones
- Products and services
- Market analysis
- Product lifecycle
- Target market
- Competitive analysis
- SWOT
- Sales and marketing
- Operations
- Pro forma financials
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This event is co-organized with New England Chinese Information & Networking Association (NECINA).
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Ongoing Business Contests
Click here to register for the 2014 MIT-CHIEF Business Plan Contest.
Click here to register for the ChunHuiBei Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition*.
Click here to register for the 1000Plan Start-up Contest*.
* To be qualified to enter these two competitions, there is at least one overseas Chinese on your start-up team.
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Speaker Bio
Attorney Connie Dai practices law for emerging companies in business structuring, contract drafting and other general corporate law matters. She represents clients in business acquisition and employment law. In addition, she handles dispute resolution and litigation. Her represented cases involving misrepresentations, contract breach, misappropriate of trade secrets, breach of computer fraud & Abuse Act, breach of fiduciary duty, non-compete in sales of business, wage & overtime violation, racial discrimination. Her clients range from a variety type of businesses, such as language services, technology, medical device, seafood, cultural exchange, immigration broker, Internet based services, medical research, to individuals.
Attorney Dai has a rare blend of legal and business experience both nationally and internationally. Since being raised in Shanghai, she has lived in Calgary, Toronto and Boston. Internationally, Attorney Dai worked on cross border transactions for McDermott, Will & Emery’s Shanghai office. She has extensive business experience in advising a variety of industry sectors in China, Canada and the U.S. Earlier in her career, she oversaw the enforcement of anti-trademark infringement efforts by Coca-Cola China, as well as participated in joint venture negotiations that led to the establishment of several Coca-Cola bottling companies in China.
While in law school, Attorney Dai interned for the Honorable Fernande R.V. Duffly of Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. She reviewed and drafted various commercial contracts for a French engineering company and drafted investment management regulation primers for Brown Brothers Harriman.
After obtaining an M.B.A. in Canada, Attorney Dai has advised business start-ups in connection with formation issues, business planning and financing. She has counseled established businesses on marketing and growth strategy, financing options and operation optimization. In addition, Attorney Dai has negotiated business engagements on behalf of companies with revenues ranging from $1M to $15M.
She has a B.A., Business English from Shanghai University and an M.B.A. from University of Calgary in Canada. She obtains the Juris Doctor degree from Suffolk University Law School in Boston.
Attorney Dai volunteers for Volunteer Lawyers Group’s low income claimants in their unemployment benefit appeals. She is also an Engagement and Sponsorship Director for New England Chinese Information and Networking Association (NECINA). She speaks frequently about business plan and business law in Greater Boston’s entrepreneurial community.
Her spare time is dedicated to her two young kids and jogging, skiing, pilate, reading magazines, cooking and traveling.
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