Certificate
Unlocking Silicon Valley for European Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurial Principles and Market Expansion
Get ready to take your entrepreneurial venture abroad with our new 12-hour executive training programme.
Over 2 days, this course will equip you with the necessary knowledge and skills to expand your business into the US market, and effectively manage funds and investor relations.
Through a combination of lectures, interactive exercises, case studies, and engaging discussions, you will gain valuable insights and practical strategies to excel in the competitive business landscape.
Venturing out into different ecosystems bears inherent risks and requires knowledge of legal and regulatory frameworks, insights into common business practices, and intercultural competence. Approaching new markets strategically and in an informed manner can mitigate some of these risks.
Held by investor, global entrepreneur, and lecturer Jack Fuchs, this course aims at helping global entrepreneurs expandtheir activities into the US market by unlocking Silicon Valley for them.
About Jack Fuchs
Jack Fuchs is an investor, global entrepreneur, and lecturer. He holds an AB in Engineering Sciences with Honors from Dartmouth College magna cum laude and phi beta kappa, and received his MBA from Stanford University as an Arjay Miller Scholar.
His current roles include VC Operating Partner, Board representative, CFO, and advisor positions with med-tech, IT, and cleantech businesses. Jack is a Lecturer at Stanford University, and an Affiliate Professor with ESCP Europe.
Over the past 10 years, he has invested in and advised over 20 companies in Europe, Asia, Latin America, and the US.
What this course is about?
- Understanding Entrepreneurial Principles:
- Identifying key entrepreneurial traits and mindsets
- Developing a robust business idea and value proposition
- Learning effective strategies for building a strong entrepreneurial foundation
- Expanding into the US:
- Exploring market research techniques for assessing US market viability
- Understanding legal and regulatory requirements for entering the US market
- Developing market entry strategies tailored to your company's unique needs
- Managing Funds and Investor Relations:
- Learning financial management principles for startups
- Understanding different funding options and their implications.
- Cultivating effective communication and relationship-building skills with investors
Faculty
Academic Director
Prof. Dr. René Mauer
René Mauer holds the Chair for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at ESCP Business School, Berlin campus. He is the academic head of the Executive Master in Digital Innovation and Entrepreneurial Leadership (EMDIEL), and serves as the European Coordinator of ESCP's European Entrepreneurship Department, the Jean-Baptiste Say Institute of Entrepreneurship. His area of expertise is entrepreneurial decision-making in venture and corporate contexts.
Lecturer
Jack Fuchs
Jack Fuchs is an investor, global entrepreneur, and lecturer. His current roles include VC Operating Partner, Board representative, CFO, and advisor positions with med-tech, IT, and cleantech businesses.
Jack is an Operating Partner at Blackhorn Ventures and an Angel investor. Over the past 10 years, he has invested in and advised over 20 companies in Europe, Asia, Latin America, and the US.
His private company Board and Board Observer positions include:
- Cytovale - image recognition and machine learning applied to sepsis diagnostics
- Aperia Technologies – automatic tire inflation for truck tires with wireless predictive maintenance
- Datch – front-end platform for speech input to ERP systems
- Focal Systems – AI and image recognition for automated checkout in supermarkets
- Ceres Nanotechnologies – nanotechnology applied to diagnostics
- Blackhorn Ventures – investment committee position with a leading industrial, energy and transportation venture capital firm
Jack is a Lecturer at Stanford University, an Affiliate Professor with ESCP Business School, and a contributor to Unternehmertum at the Technical University of Munich. He mentors entrepreneurs and teaches around the world – his driving force.
At Stanford, his activities include:
- Director of PEAK (Principled Entrepreneurship) developing research, curriculum, and outreach initiatives for Stanford’s Entrepreneurship Center
- Developing a de novo course: Principled Entrepreneurial Decisions (ENGR148/248) providing students with frameworks, exercises, and case examples to help them develop their own values/principles framework for life and for their careers
Audience
This course is designed for founders, entrepreneurs, employees at startups and intrapreneurs aiming to relocate or expand their project or business to the USA.
It is also suited for future entrepreneurs, business development managers, CEOs, COOs, wanting to understand the workings and best-practices of Silicon Valley.
Fees
Certification
Participants will be evaluated based on participation and completion of workshop tasks.
This course is a standard element of the Executive Master in Digital Innovation and Entrepreneurial Leadership. If you decide to join this programme, the course participation fee will be deducted from your tuition fees.
A certificate of completion will be awarded to participants who successfully complete the programme.