Sean Murphy panelist at 'Kick Start Your Startup' Workshop November 2, 2010

SDForum's "Kick Start Your Startup" Workshop
This workshop is for serious startup entrepreneurs in the process of developing their business plan and/or wanting to grow their company so that they can maximize their chances of attracting an outside investor for the first time. You may attend the morning and/or afternoon sessions. In the morning, you will learn how to organize your financials, learn how to craft a legal framework and analyze and size a new market opportunity. During lunch you will pitch to the group. In the afternoon, you will work on developing a compelling pitch and listen to successful

Late Morning Session: Sean Murphy, on "Assessing and Sizing Your Market Opportunity"

One of the top reasons for a new product failure is inadequate market analysis, yet most entrepreneurs bypass this step. Sean Murphy of SKMurphy, Inc. will convey key steps to analyze and size a new market opportunity.

Speaker: Founder and CEO, SKMurphy (www.skmurphy.com). Sean has taken an entrepreneurial approach to life since he could drive. He has served as an advisor to dozens of startups, helping them explore new options and bringing their businesses to new levels. SKMurphy, Inc., focuses on early customers and early revenue for software startups, helping engineers to understand business development. Their clients have offerings in electronic design automation, artificial intelligence, web-enabled collaboration, proteomics, text analytics, legal services automation, and medical services workflow.

Other sessions leaders:
Nagesh Challa, Co-Founder and Board Chairman, Ecrio.
Nathan Gold, Founder, The Demo Coach.
Neal Hansch, Principal, Rustic Canyon Partners.
Curtis Mo, Partner, DLA Piper.
Anthony Nassar, Founder and Principal, Venture Momentum.
Ben Narasin, President, TriplePoint Ventures. .
Anurag (Anu) Nigam, President & Board Director, Sand Hill Angels.
Chris Yeh, Marketing Director, PBWorks.

See full agenda at event website.

Official Website: http://www.sdforum.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Calendar.eventDetail&eventID=13782&pageId=471