Admission process and program for venture leaders 2011

For high potential entrepreneurs only: the details of the venture leaders prize: a unique entrepreneurial development program for 20 highly promising high-tech entrepreneurial personalities.

venture leaders is offered by venturelab, the start-up training program of the Innovation Promotion Agency CTI, in close collaboration with the international Entrepreneur Of The Year® award by Ernst&Young and Swissnex Boston.

a) Registration deadline by March 1st , 2011

• Register your project and apply for one of 20 places in the ten-day intensive entrepreneurship training program in Boston (USA).

b) Jury presentation: March 24/25, 2011

• Personal presentation by the best 40 applicants in front of the jury

c) Kick-off meeting in April

• Kick-off Meeting in Lausanne, including a pitch competition within the venture ideas

d) Trip to Boston -  the program for the 20 prize winners

June 7th, 2011
Arrival at Boston Logan Airport

• Check-in at the Irving House
• Welcome reception

From June 8th to 17th, 2011
Intense dive into the US entrepreneurial scene and personnal development, thanks to a programme comprising:
Presentation to experts and investors from the Boston area, per industry sector

• Start-up visits
• Knowledge workshops with experts in US business development, IP, corporate affairs, …
• Babson entrepreneurship training
• Execution workshops focusing on developping your company “hands-on”
• Group feedback sessions
• Multiple networking events with the high-tech entrepreneurs’ scene
• Flexibility for personal business development activities during the all stay

June 17, 2011
Optional: MIT Visit

• Checkout and transfer to Boston Logan Airport (arrival in Switzerland June 18)