Fundamentals for Startups Fridays: Lean Canvas and Startup Employee Rights, April 1

Who: CoMotion
Where: CoMotion Incubator, 4000 Mason Road, Fluke Hall, 3rd Floor, Seattle, WA 98105
When: April 1, 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm
What: Lean Canvas with Brian Howe and Startup Employee Rights with Katherine Brennan & Ahmed Elayouty

Brian Howe is the founder and CEO of Impact Hub Seattle, a launch pad for purpose-driven ventures that has more than 500 active and paying members. At Impact HUB, Brian raised $700,000 in seed capital and grew monthly gross revenues to 600 percent in a one-year period. He also has developed partnerships with top sustainable MBA programs and social investment groups to launch a new center for impact entrepreneurship, with plans to open three expansion sites in 2014.
Fundamentals for Startups: Lean Canvas with Brian Howe and Startup Employee Rights with Katherine Brennan & Ahmed Elayouty

CoMotion Incubator is a collaborative hub for students, faculty, staff, and the local innovation community. We host many networking, educational, and social events providing the opportunity to mindshare with and inspire startups and aspiring entrepreneurs in the UW family.

Entrepreneurial Law Clinic (ELC) is an innovative clinic serving entrepreneurs throughout the Pacific Northwest. The ELC team law and business students with pro bono attorneys and business advisors to provide critical early stage legal and business counseling.

Goal with our Working Sessions:

To provide our CoMotion Incubator Community and ELC Community with access to leading experts that can close the GAP in startup knowledge. These workshops will give startups, teams and students a chance to learn practical knowledge, as well as provide hands-on training, and networking opportunities with professionals in various branches of business.

Format of the Working Sessions:

The working sessions will have a topic and an area expert providing key insights and knowledge regarding the topic in a 20 minute lecture format. After the lecture, the attendees will break into working sessions to engage with the topic as it relates to them.
Then we will have an ELC student presentation on a legal matter pertinent to startups. The Student will present for 25 to 35 min and then will work with the advising council to answer questions regarding that topic.
For both sessions, we will invite CoMotion mentors and EIRs as a resource to the attendees to help answer any questions and think through any problems they may be facing.
All lecture portions will be video captured and livestreamed.

Each Incubator Working Session will start at 12:15pm, with 20 min lecture.
Q&A time for the topic till 1pm.
Each ELC Student presentation will start at 1pm, with 25-35 min lecture.
Q&A time for the topic till 2pm.
The entire working sessions will be open till 3pm. For the audience to work with our groups.