The European Business community needs to be more pro-active and dynamic if it wants to keep moving forward in a growingly competitive world. Our European Venture Market offers just that possibility - a moment to meet but also an opportunity to be part of a bigger Pan-European business community, both online and offline.

What is it?
The European Venture Market, organised by Continua AG, is a platform for investors, service providers and entrepreneurs to meet, network and further develop business ideas and projects, in a relaxed yet professional atmosphere. During the event the participating entrepreneurs will be able to pitch their business projects for around 5 minutes to a crowd of interested investors and service providers. The two conference days will also feature keynotes speeches, specific industry presentations, coffee and lunch breaks, a large dinner reception on the Thursday night and, finally, a themed club party on the Friday night.

As part of the 1M/1M initiative, Sramana Mitra offers free weekly online strategy roundtables for entrepreneurs looking to discuss positioning, financing, and other aspects of a startup venture.  Up to 1,000 people can attend each session, but only the first five who register to pitch will be able to present their business ideas.  All attendees are able to join in on the conversations via a live chat.

 Sramana requests that entrepreneurs use the Clarify Your Story appendix of herPositioning book to prepare their pitches. While many entrepreneurs find it difficult to answer all the questions in the CYS framework, we strongly recommend that you address the following items in your roundtable pitch at the minimum:
(1) A validated customer value proposition
(2) Detailed segmentation analysis and target customer definition at a fairly granular level
(3) A customer acquisition strategy that is pragmatic, and
(4) We also recommend that you present a succinct summary of whatever customer validation work you have done.
Your roundtable pitch should be no more than three minutes, and consist of four slides, as suggested above. No more. No less.

Upcoming 1M/1M Roundtables:
Thursday, December 09, 2010, 8 a.m. Pacific Time, Register Here...
Thursday, December 16, 2010, 8 a.m. Pacific Time, Register Here...

  

Am a Ambassador in the global initiative One Million by One Million 1M/1M (http://www.sramanamitra.com 1m/1m/). 

There are only about 5 pitching slots each week, and I would like to get startups from Africa participating in the roundtables at least each week. There are plenty businesses in around the world that need this.

If you have any questions or comments, please do not hesitate to email me ...
ejnyandat@errandmanager.com: Subject Line :Global Initiative One Million by One Million

Eunice Nyandat, 1M/1M Ambassador

As part of the 1M/1M initiative whose aim is to help one million entrepreneurs reach $1 million in revenue each, serial entrepreneur and strategist Sramana Mitra invites start-up entrepreneurs to participate in the next free online strategy roundtable on Thursday, November 11, 2010, starting at 11 a.m. Eastern Time/8 a.m. Pacific Time. These sessions are centered around virtual presentations in which up to 1,000 participants can observe strategic design conversations as Mitra reacts, real-time, to several entrepreneurial pitches. You can read the recaps and listen to the recordings of previous roundtables here: 
http://www.sramanamitra.com/previous-strategy-roundtables-recordings/ 

Please find more details here: 
http://1m1m.sramanamitra.com/free-public-roundtables/ 

and register to attend or pitch here: 
http://strategyroundtable-nov11.eventbrite.com/ 

All are welcome!Reply