HOW TO PREPARE A PROFESSIONAL, GROWTH ORIENTED, STRATEGIC BUSINESS PLAN AND WIN FINANCING FOR YOUR COMPANY
SEPTEMBER 15, 2016 – JANUARY 26, 2017 The U.S. Embassy,Sanborn Capital Management and Messzelátó Association announce a weekly workshop for entrepreneurs starting Thursday, September 15th 6:00 p.m. at Prezi (1065 Budapest, Nagymező utca 54-56.). The workshop is conducted by Edward H Sanborn IV, Sanborn Capital Management. The workshop consists of sixteen, interactive, three-hour long sessions in English. The last regular session is January 19th and the presentations will be held on Thursday, January 26th. Participants will prepare a Strategic Business Plan to be presented in a competition to a panel of expert investors in the last sessions. The course will include speakers with actual experience in the week’s current business planning issue. Some speakers from the last workshop: Zsolt Vaszary (Webcam Laboratory), Ádám Somlai-Fischer (Prezi.com), Dr. János Kóka (Cellum), Viktor Szathmary (EU Edge and Scarab Research). Please note that applicants who miss the deadline or turn in an incomplete application package will not be considered for 2016 Autumn. The workshop is open to all interested applicants free of charge.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS: • • • • •
Four completed years of college Advanced English language knowledge Interest in business and entrepreneurship Sufficient time for necessary research and Lean Workshop team meetings on the weekends or other nights during the week Hungarian citizenship
DESIRABLE: •
Own business or business idea
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Community service Alumni of U.S. high school, university or other professional programs
The interviews are going to be conducted on the week of August 29th THE
JULY 31ST , SUNDAY, 4:00 P.M. PLEASE YOUR RÉSUMÉ AND MOTIVATION LETTER TO Leanworkshop2016@gmail.com DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION IS
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PERSONAL PROFILE, EDWARD H SANBORN IV Born in the United States of America, I received my Bachelors degree from Dickinson College in 1968. I then spent the next ten years with Xerox Corporation as a salesman and then as a manager with profit and loss responsibility. My first experience in the world of finance was through the investment bank Morgan Stanley in San Francisco. Beginning in institutional sales--placing large investments with banks, pension funds and insurance companies--I ultimately moved to the corporate finance side of the business. Returning to Golden Gate University I completed my MBA with a minor in legal studies and soon formed my own investment advisory firm in 1984. Sanborn Capital Management was successful in raising funds for corporate venture capital projects and real estate primarily in California. That success led to a move to Hungary at around the time of the transition in 1990. First serving as an advisor in privatization, I began making direct investments into real estate and corporate opportunities in Central Europe with a primary focus in Hungary. Notable among a couple of dozen transactions was the founding and expansion of Euronet, a pan European ATM operator, and its eventual flotation on the NasDaq exchange in America; also, the founding of the thriving internet portal- Index.hu Rt. As an experienced “Angel” investor I have continued to nurture promising young companies such as IND Group, a leading European banking software developer founded in Miskolc, Hungary. In 2014 IND was acquired by the large multinational firm Misys. In parallel to my investment activities, I am developing the next “Lean”Workshop for Entrepreneurs. The Workshop is a volunteer organization which prepares participants to start a successful new business, recruit a team and secure investment funding. THE LEAN WORKSHOP FOR ENTREPRENEURS IS SUPPORTED BY SANBORN CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, THE EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND MESSZELÁTÓ.