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Presentations & Speaking Topics
Each of the topics below are ready for presentation at your next event. Click your topic of interest to start the scheduling process. Or fill out our quick survey and request a custom topic.
Demystifying Venture Capital
VC is romanticized in our culture, so much that some founders focus more on fundraising than business building, and others think raising VC is the only way to build their business. This presentation brings VC back to reality to help founders understand when VC is the right fit, how to navigate the VC ecosystem if it is, and alternative sources of capital and business building strategies when VC isn't a fit for a company.
Length: 45 minutes + 15 minute Q&A
Water, Tourism, and National Security
What can Las Vegas teach us about a future Lunar economy? It turns out, a lot! The talk explores the many parallels between the history of Las Vegas and the economic, political, and technological circumstances that will shape the future of the Moon. From failed settlements to the atomic bomb to the role of the Mafia, we'll explore the wealth of lessons from Las Vegas and how they apply to Lunar economic development.
Length: Tailorable, 10 to 60 minutes
Bridging, Or How to Shift Competition to Collaboration
Bridging is the act of connecting, translating, and building the interface between disparate ideas, teams, or organizations and can be applied in nearly any context. This talk provides an introduction to the art and practice of bridging, and demonstrates how it can be used to reframe a competitive environment into a collaborative one. Perfect for any team looking to reinvent their culture, best practices, and path to success.
Length: 30 minutes + 15 minute Q&A
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Online Courses
Our online courses are under development and will be available soon. Learn more about the courses we have in development below and join the waitlist for each course to be notified when it becomes available.
Technology Due Diligence
Target Audience: Scientists, engineers, and other technical professionals with an interest in learning about how to apply their knowledge and skills to the investment decision-making via technology due diligence.
Course Objectives:
- Understand the purpose and types of diligence conducted to inform investment decisions
- Understand the differences in mindset between technical experts and investors, and how to shift your mindset to think like an investor
- Know how to apply your technical expertise to assessing the viability of an investment candidate
- Know how to conduct commercial and market assessments through a technical lens
- Be prepared to support technology diligence projects in a variety of contexts
- Understand the legal and ethical considerations involved in conducting technology diligence
- Be positioned to find and participate in diligence projects with and for investors and other stakeholders
Join the waitlist below and you'll be informed when the Technology Due Diligence course becomes available to you:
Investment Framework Development
Target Audience: Investors, entrepreneurs, business strategists, and other professionals who need to map out a sector, market, or technology landscape for allocating limited resources to optimize return on investment.
Course Objectives:
- Understand tools and techniques for researching a sector, market, or technology area
- Be able to ask the right questions to assess the "why" of a technology, its market potential, and positioning in the sector
- Know how to distinguish between aspects of a sector that are direct demand vs derived demand
- Learn methods for categorizing subsectors, technologies, functions, or market areas within a scope of interest
- Be positioned to create your own investment frameworks tailored to your sectors, markets, and technologies of interest
- Know how to tailor an investment framework to your organization's objectives
- Understand when and how to update an investment framework as the ecosystem evolves
- Learn techniques for leveraging investment frameworks for informing your decision making
Join the waitlist below and you'll be informed when the Investment Framework Development course becomes available:
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