The journey of nailing product-market fit is a race against time. While delivering a compelling user experience is crucial, neglecting other equally important elements of your product could cost you valuable time and turn a promising venture into a missed opportunity. This workshop helps you achieve product-market fit faster by fully considering all aspects of product definition and maximizing the value of customer interviews.

Raising venture capital for a startup is easier than ever, but failure is still the norm rather than the exception. To maximize your chances of success, entrepreneurs must become fluent not just in the technical terminology of the industry – term sheets, pre-money, liquidation preference etc. – but understand and effectively navigate a complicated relationship.

Will Hsu has spent his career both proudly and embarrassingly on all sides of this dance: begging for money from VCs and giving away money to entrepreneurs. In this Spark, we will help aspiring entrepreneurs navigate this relationship by deciphering what exactly a VC means by "no," "yes" and "maybe."

A conversation with an entrepreneur whose "startup" shocked the New York City establishment. Participate in real-time problems with real-time solutions, with personal case histories for Fortune top companies.

Specializing in strategy, marketing and advertising, Ted Chin has won over 65 top national awards for creative brilliance. He is also a board member and senior advisor to billion-dollar companies and Silicon Valley startups, as well as an Eagle scout and Army veteran who enjoys philanthropic challenges.

Bonus: Participants who bring a friend will be eligible to enter a free drawing for lunch for two at Pizzeria Delfina, or a two-hour session with Chin.

Entrepreneurs have a lot of misunderstandings and misconceptions about patent law, which often leads to missed opportunities for patent protection and infringement lawsuits from their competitors. Attend this Spark to learn:

• why startups build a patent portfolio
• what inventions are patentable
• when to file a patent application

Join us for this lively class lead by the top recommended patent attorney by the highest ranked incubators in Silicon Valley.

Join Guy Kawasaki – entrepreneur, evangelist and author of The Art of the Start 2.0 – in conversation with Ann Grimes of the Brown Institute for Media Innovation as they discuss how to pitch a startup idea. In this workshop, they will share tips on how to best tell your startup's story.