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Speaker: Wade Myers

NEW VENTURES LABS

Wade Myers is a homeschooling father of four and founder of New Venture Lab (www.NewVentureLab.com), a business incubator dedicated to assisting Christian men with their entrepreneurial ventures. He is also the president of the Venture Academy, a Christian entrepreneurship training program with a course of instruction that includes Harvard Business School case studies in a Biblical framework. He is a Baker Scholar graduate of Harvard's MBA program as well as a case author and guest lecturer at the Harvard Business School. He is a five-time CEO, venture capitalist, private equity investor and prolific serial entrepreneur. He serves on the boards of several companies and his work experience include roles as the chairman of a venture capital firm, board member of an $850 million investment firm, strategy consultant with the Boston Consulting Group, Fortune 500 sales and marketing executive, and as an Airborne Ranger in the US Army where he was a decorated veteran of the Gulf War. Wade has been a featured speaker at several of the nation's top MBA programs, venture capital

conferences, entrepreneurship conferences and homeschool conferences. He also writes the Venture Forth column featured in each issue of Homeschooling Today magazine. He is available to speak at homeschool conferences on the following topics (in addition to any specific entrepreneurship curriculum topics he has developed for the Venture Academy):

Workshops

NAME OF PRESENTATON

TOPIC

SUMMARY

The Biblical Case for Entrepreneurship

Friday

What God says in His Word about providing for our families. This session lays out a case based upon the patterns, principles and precepts of scripture that God calls men to be independent, entrepreneurial providers for their families

Building a Business From Start to Finish

Friday

Practical steps on how to build a successful family-based business. This session clearly lays out a step-by-step approach to building a business, from how to define success, generate ideas, evaluate ideas, launch your business, grow your business and prepare to sell your business.

Creative Models for Raising Capital

Friday

Ideas on how to finance your business with no debt or venture capital This session introduces capital-raising terminology, discusses the reasons for requiring capital, defines the traditional methods of raising capital and discusses several creative strategies to finance a business

Before You Launch Your Business Part 1

Saturday

The 50 most important things you need to know about your venture . This session takes you through the fifty most important business evaluation criteria and describes how you can quickly size up any business idea.

Before You Launch Your Business Part 2

Saturday

A workshop that immediately follows the Before You Launch Your Business presentation This session features a workshop where the presenter takes one audience member's business idea and helps them evaluate it for the benefit of all attendees

Required Skills for Entrepreneurs

Saturday

The most important skills required to successfully manage a business This session goes through each of eight critical skills that every entrepreneur needs to acquire and offers process outlines and success tips

Q & A Panel

Friday & Saturday

Based upon questions from the audience. This session features an open forum with written questions submitted by the audience that are answered by the presenter and potentially other panelists.