University of Maryland Technology Startup Boot Camp
Friday, October 14, 2011, 10 a.m.-3:15 p.m. 
University of Maryland, College Park, Colony Ballroom, Stamp Student Union (register now!)
www.bootcamp.umd.edu

Learn
·         Secrets for customer discovery and developing a business plan canvas from keynote speaker Bob Dorf, CRM strategist, serial entrepreneur and investor. The customer development process detailed in Steve Blank’s best-selling book, “Four Steps to Epiphany,” is a guiding light for tech startups. “Customer Development: The Second Decade,” co-authored (in progress) by Steve Blank and Bob Dorf, looks at what’s changed. The new book is the basis of the Stanford Lean Launch Pad and theNSF I-Corps curriculum.

·         How to kickstart your social media product from idea to prototype from Zvi Band, Structo Founder/Developer, Co-founder, DC Tech Meetup,ProudlyMadeinDC

·         The top ten mistakes entrepreneurs make from a FounderCorps panel of experts

·         Details about NSF’s new I-Corps Program for faculty from Errol Arkilic, Innovation Corps Program Director, National Science Foundation

Connect

·         With hundreds of current, successful and aspiring entrepreneurs, investors and mentors

·         With future team members and present your idea during the elevator pitch contestand potentially win a share of prize money

·         With thousands of people in the tech entrepreneurship community through Digital Capital Week, which DJ Saul, VP of New Ventures, iStrategyLabs, will discuss

Get Inspired

	• By UM President Wallace D. Loh, who will highlight entrepreneurship and innovation at the University of Maryland
·         By stories of innovation at the University of Maryland, including the Gamera Project, a record-setting human-powered helicopter

See the full agenda and register at: www.bootcamp.umd.edu