Ask the Entrepreneur at ETH #3: Strategic clarity and value creation

Accelerate your project with the support of successful founders and industry leaders!

Ask the Entrepreneur Workshop No. 3: Strategic clarity and execution roadmap

• Define the value creation roadmap
• Methodologies and tools to establish your execution plan
• Communicating and executing the plan

Our trainer: Andreas Jurgeit was Director at Merck Ventures. Merck Ventures is the strategic, corporate venture capital arm of Merck. From headquarters in Amsterdam and offices in the US and Israel, Merck Ventures invests globally in transformational ideas driven by great entrepreneurs. 

The workshop: The series of workshops is based on a mission and challenge approach to enhance the validation and execution of your business case. This is how we work together during our workshops:

1. Intro with key tools, checklists and objectives, using benchmark examples from successful founders
2. Identification of your individual priorities, key missions and tasks
3. Definition of your objectives and milestones, with a focus on maximized value creation
4. With experts' support, you work and exchange on the identified core missions for your startup
5. Pitching, debriefing and challenges of your results. Get inputs to improve and accelerate

External industry experts/mentors/supporters will be invited to the workshops.

Apply if you have an innovative startup project and the ambition to conquer the world. Or if you are a master student, doctoral candidate, postdoc or member of staff at ETH or EPFL carrying a solid high-tech startup project.

The Ask the Entrepreneur Workshops will help you to:

• Shape your entrepreneurial proposal
• Build an execution track record
• Validate the contents of the "investment-ready" package and offer it to investors