Learn the ins and outs of technopreneurship with Vertex Holdings’ Technopreneur Webinar Series 2020, a series of virtual events designed to help bolster the startup ecosystem by discussing the latest trends and strategies.
The 11-part webinar series features partners from Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia and India and Vertex Growth who have generously shared crucial insider information and have spoken about their entrepreneurial experiences to audiences made up of founders and aspiring entrepreneurs.
The webinar series covers a range of topics from raising capital to cross-border expansion and even to cybersecurity and everything in between — all of which audiences are able to enjoy within the comforts of their own homes.
But wait, there’s more
The 11th session of the Technopreneur Webinar Series 2020, aptly titled “Keeping an Eye Out for the Exit”, is slated on November 6, Friday, at 1 PM SGT. This session focuses on the delivery of outstanding returns and building valuable business coupled with a viable exit strategy.
This final session will help teach startup founders how to create value while keeping an eye out for their exit. Participants who are interested in this important business topic may still secure their slots by signing up here for free.
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“Attendees will be able to better understand the technopreneurship journey and learn about some of the best practices related to various operational aspect of running a startup,” shared Chua Kee Lock, CEO of Vertex Holdings.
Vertex Holdings has invited its portfolio companies’ founders and strategic partners to share their entrepreneurial adventures and experiences in specific areas. Each session is moderated by their leadership from Vertex Growth and Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia and India, many of whom are also serial entrepreneurs and come from leading startups who have been through the life cycle of technopreneurship. Because of this, they are able to highlight the common pitfalls of companies and are able to offer tips to work around challenges.
The onus of the Technopreneurship Webinar Series
“Prior to COVID-19, Vertex Holdings regularly organized events and activities via our Technopreneur Circle community. However, COVID-19 has made it impossible to organize such physical networking events, which is clearly an integral part of entrepreneurship, one that also involves learning from each other,” shared Chua.
He further explained, “hence, as part of our efforts to give back to the wider innovation and startup community, Vertex Holdings decided to bring our mentoring online through this Technopreneur Webinar Series. This series aims to facilitate the sharing of ideas and insights from many startup CEOs and founders. Critically important, it provides aspiring technology founders and leading innovators a fundamental understanding of the intricacies and art of entrepreneurship.”
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Each session covers one key aspect of the startup journey. There are sessions that tackle fundraising, term sheets and legal considerations when structuring VC deals, cross-border expansion and exits.
Vertex Holdings also included four sessions covering industry topics on artificial intelligence, performance marketing, cloud services, and cybersecurity where the team invited industry experts and founders to share their experience and insights on these topics. Moreover, all sessions are free to attend.
Experience as a key differentiator
“Our investment thesis revolves around the objectives of building champions where we devote significant effort in supporting our founders with unmatched operating experience and deep access to the capital, talent, partners and customers they need to build truly global business,” explained Chua who underscored Vertex Holdings’ position as a business builder more than just a pure financial investor.
Chua added, “This series articulates our operating experience and our ability to provide fundamental understanding of the intricacies of entrepreneurship for the benefit of aspiring technology founders and innovators in the startup ecosystem.”
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Some of the key learnings from past sessions include the importance of culture and communication when building great companies. There were also important discussions from Vinod about how marketing precedes sales during cross-border expansion. Meanwhile, there were also several discussions around employee stock option plans, due diligence issues, and the key considerations for founders when starting up a new venture, such as crafting a form of “pre-nuptial agreement” for co-founders.
Moving forward
Vertex Holdings will also be running a series of AI and robotics themed webinars that aim to spotlight some of Vertex Holdings’ portfolio companies. The upcoming event will focus on “Intelligent Contract Management @ Work”. For more information on this project and future events, you may visit the official Vertex Holdings site.
The full webinar recording for past sessions is also available for viewing. Request for each session can be submitted here.
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