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  • Who is Tom Koor?
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  • Avoiding business failure.
  • The startup journey
  • Understanding customers
  • Investor Interactions
  • Corporate Governance
  • Only talent creates business value
  • Value creation planning (strategy)
  • Business transformation
  • Values, morals, and ethics
  • Charitable support
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The Geoff Carr Fellowship – Lupus Ontario

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  • What is the purpose of my website?
  • Who is Tom Koor?
  • Contact Tom Koor
  • The startup journey
    • What is a startup? V2
    • What does the startup journey look like? V4
    • Is your early stage startup planning to fail? V2
    • Why do startup CEOs fail? V4
    • Leadership talent is the underlying cause of startup failure.
    • Startups often fail in the transition to scaling.
    • Successfully scaling startups are different from public companies. V2
    • Why is governance essential for successfully scaling startups?
    • What is the status of your startup? (V2)
    • How do you measure the success of your startup? V2
    • Do you have product/market fit? (V2)
    • What is a business model canvas? V4
    • How can a startup benefit from an advisory board? V2
    • What does the Toronto startup ecosystem look like? (V6)
    • Education, skills, and tools for an early stage startup. V1
    • Who launches a successful startup?
  • Avoiding business failure.
    • Your company will fail. V3
    • Is your company planning to fail? V5
    • What are the three greatest risks to your company?
    • If you are in survival mode, should you still consider the long-term?
    • Why is learning critical for your company’s success? V2
    • Can your CEO pass this simple startup investor test?
    • How will startups destroy your company?
    • Is your company actually a startup?
  • Understanding customers
    • What do you do if you’re losing customers? V2
    • Do you understand your customers? V3
    • How do you interview potential customers? V2
    • What is a value proposition? V3
  • Investor Interactions
    • How profitable is Angel investing? V4
    • Are you an Angel investor or gambler? V3
    • How profitable are search funds? V3
    • How profitable is venture capital?
    • How profitable is private equity?
    • How profitable are public stocks?
    • LP (Limited Partner) assessment of a fund. V8
    • How do you invest in a private company? V2
    • Why should a Venture Capitalist invest in you? V2
    • How can a private company sell securities in Ontario? V2
    • How does a startup raise capital from investors? (V3)
    • What is the value and role of a lead investor?
    • How do you understand potential investors?
    • What are the different kinds of startup pitches?V2
    • How does a startup communicate with potential investors? V2
    • Survey – When do startups get capital from outside investors? (V2)
    • How can portfolio companies update investors?
    • How do venture capitalists assess teams?
    • How do venture capitalists create value?
    • Finding new investors
    • Due diligence questions for a startup. V3
    • Startup investment memo
    • Startup terminology and metrics. V3
    • Pitch evaluation – What are deal killers?
    • Venture Capital Investment Decision Making Process
    • Successful angel investors are focused on the exit.
    • Why won’t angel investors provide funding?
    • Why would someone buy control of your company?
  • Corporate Governance
    • Traditional corporate governance dooms your company to failure. V2
    • Traditional risk management dooms your company to failure.
    • What is the purpose of your company?
    • What is corporate governance? V4
    • What is the corporate governance ecosystem? V2
    • What are the decision-making challenges faced by directors? (V2)
    • How can the board of directors create value? (V4)
    • Survey – How do board directors impact long-term corporate value?
    • What is public company governance? V2
    • What is different about private equity governance? V2
    • What is different about family governance? V2
    • What is the value of a for-profit advisory board?
    • How to start an advisory board
    • Survey – What is the role of advisory boards?
    • How can the shareholders agreement focus everyone on value? V2
    • How can founders and investors create a shareholders agreement?
    • How do you make strategic decisions?
    • What are your company’s decision making principles?
    • What is a competitively differentiated board of directors?
    • Does your board compensation reflect board value? V2
    • Can leaders (U.S. Presidents, Board Directors, CEOs) have an “Off Day”?
  • Only talent creates business value
    • Long-term industry experience dooms leaders to failure.
    • Traditional succession planning dooms your company to failure. V3
    • What is learning? V3
    • What will be the board and C-Suite talent requirements? V2
    • How do you determine employee talent requirements?
    • Survey – How do asset managers assess Private Equity fund managers?
    • Focus your project on user and customer value achievement
    • Leaders don’t understand the strategy for creating value.
    • If you’re going to ask someone to do an introduction.
    • Networking is key to value creation. V3
    • What are the three types of talent successful companies require?
    • Elite talent – what is it? V2
    • Strategic Advisor vs Consultant vs Coach vs SME vs Trainer. V3
    • Billion dollar startup characteristics
    • Critical learnings from Collision 2022
    • Critical learnings from Collision 2023
    • What are the core components of talent? V7
    • Note taking is key to value creation.
    • AI Talent – what is it? V2
    • Why should employees and investors support you?
  • Value creation planning (strategy)
    • What is your business strategy? V2
    • Traditional strategic planning dooms companies to failure.
    • What is strategy and strategic planning? V2
    • What is the difference between strategy and tactics? V2
    • Do you understand your company’s external ecosystem
    • Scenario Planning – what is it?
    • How do you grow your company’s value? V3
  • Business transformation
    • Traditional business transformation dooms your company to failure. V2
    • What is business transformation? V3
    • Do you need to transform you company? V4
    • How do you succeed with transformation? V2
    • Why is trust critical for transformation success? V2
    • Transformation success depends upon human behaviour change.
    • How can M&A create value? V3
    • How can restructuring grow value? V2
  • Values, morals, and ethics
    • Are company values valuable?
    • What are your company’s values?
    • Why are values, morals, and ethics important? V2
    • Values – U.S. Army V2
    • How to assess director and CEO candidates – regarding values, morals, and ethics. (V2)
    • What are your values and morals? Survey Tool
    • Society does not trust its leaders and institutions. V6
    • Many are losing hope in our polarized and distrustful worlds your company actually a startup?
  • Charitable support
    • The Geoff Carr Fellowship – Lupus Ontario
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