This document provides an agenda and information for a two-day business workshop. Day 1 will include introductions, a business game, an introduction to business models, and assigning homework. Participants will present their business model canvases (BMCs) on Day 2 and receive an introduction to pitching before the workshop concludes. Niek Huizenga will facilitate the workshop and encourage participants to focus on defining problems, customers, and business models before considering plans or feasibility. The goal is to help transform ideas into money-generating business concepts using the Business Model Canvas as a framework.

1. Niek Huizenga
www.about.me/niekhuizenga
Business Competition
Workshop Day 1
Business Models and Pitching

2. Agenda for today
9:00 – Introductions
9:30 – Business Game
12:00 – Break
12:30 – Introduction to
Business Models
14:00 - Recap and closing
Homework!!!
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Welcome to the Enterprise Development Center

3. Agenda for tomorrow
9:00 – Present your BMC
10:30 – Introduction to pitching
12:30 – Recap and closing
FB.com/NWU.EDC
Welcome to the Enterprise Development Center

4. Introductions

5. Are you a nice person?
(people prefer to do business with nice people)

6. Did you ever had any ideas for a
business, service or product?
(not necessarily good ideas)

7. Have you ever executed one of your
ideas?
(It doesn’t matter if you failed)

8. Did you try to make money with this
project?

11. Entrepreneurs embrace changes

12. But entrepreneurs are not always understood

13. Setting up a business is a process
This means: persistence!!

14. Niek Huizenga
niek@yeah.eu | www.niekhuizenga.com
Lecturer
Entrepreneur
Investor
Consultant

15. Projects in Silicon Valley USA

16. coworking space & startup center

17. coworking space & startup center

18. coworking space & startup center

19. coworking space & startup center

21. Expectations
What are they?

22. Today and tomorrow is about creativity!!

23. Is your idea ready to fly?

24. Business plan? NOT YET!

25. Step 2:
How does
your
business
model work?
Step 3:
Is it realistic
and feasible?
Step 1:
Define
motives and
ideas
Step 4:
Customer feedback
Step 5:
Start your business
Steps:
1. Idea and motives
2. Business Model
3. Reality check
4. Customer feedback
5. Start!!

26. Explain!
What problem do you solve?
Who are your customers?
How do you contact your customers?
How to build a relation with your customers?
How do your customers pay you?
What resources do you need?
What activities do you have to perform?
Who are your partners?
What are your costs?

28. Keep your thoughts…

29. Business Game
(change slide deck)

30. Time for lunch

31. Remember?
What problem do you solve?
Who are your customers?
How do you contact your customers?
How to build a relation with your customers?
How do your customers pay you?
What resources do you need?
What activities do you have to perform?
Who are your partners?
What are your costs?

32. Business plan? NOT YET!

33. Step 2:
How does
your
business
model work?
Step 3:
Is it realistic
and feasible?
Step 1:
Define
motives and
ideas
Step 4:
Customer feedback
Step 5:
Start your business
Steps:
1. Idea and motives
2. Business Model
3. Reality check
4. Customer feedback
5. Start!!

35. Niek Huizenga
www.about.me/niekhuizenga
Business Model Generation

36. Purpose of the Business Model Canvas
• Learn to use a powerful method that helps you to
transform an idea into a money-generating business
concept.

40. Remember?
What problem do you solve?
Who are your customers?
How do you contact your customers?
How to build a relation with your customers?
How do your customers pay you?
What resources do you need?
What activities do you have to perform?
Who are your partners?
What are your costs?

41. Restaurant ‘Crispy Chicken’
One idea, multiple business
models….
Come up with an original business
model for this restaurant.

43. Expectations
Where they met?

44. Homework for tomorrow!!

45. niek@yeah.eu
www.about.me/niekhuizenga