The Street-smart Startup Course

Skyrocket your Startup from Zero to Hero even if you’ve never run a business in your life

9:00 AM – 6:00 PM | SAT – SUN 1-2 May, 2021

Online Event | Details will be supplied prior to the date

Reserve your spot today

The Street-smart Startup Course

Skyrocket your Startup from Zero to Hero even if you’ve never run a business in your life

9:00 AM – 6:00 PM | SAT – SUN 1-2 May, 2021

Online Event | Details will be supplied prior to the date

Reserve your spot today

A Revolution In Entrepreneurship Is

Underway

Whether you

Are considering starting a business
Have already started but finding it hard to gain traction growing beyond your current contacts
Have gained traction but are suffering from growing pains
Are finding it hard to grow without adequate funding
Are looking for an investor but not sure how present your business to them
Are feeling lost and confused from all the advice online, not knowing which is most relevant to you…

You’re in the right place.

lnnovest offers a practical and engaging course to help build your business fast. Our course is designed for early stage businesses that are requiring support while they validate their business idea, their target audience, their marketing strategy and their business model so that they can progress to the next stage in their development.

So, whether you have started already or have been thinking about starting for a while now or if starting a business has been a post-COVID 19 thought process due to reduction in employment opportunities, this course is a perfect fit for you.

No prior business experience assumed.

A Revolution In Entrepreneurship Is Underway

Whether you

Are considering starting a business
Have already started but finding it hard to gain traction growing beyond your current contacts
Have gained traction but are suffering from growing pains
Are finding it hard to grow without adequate funding
Are looking for an investor but not sure how present your business to them
Are feeling lost and confused from all the advice online, not knowing which is most relevant to you…

What are Accelerator and Incubator Programs?

No prior business experience assumed.

What we cover in the

Street-Smart Startup Course

The course is presented online live at scheduled times.
Check the next date by clicking the ‘Reserve My Spot Today’ button

Startup Success Tools

Find out the reasons why generalist business advice can sometimes destroy a startup and what unfair advantages you have on your side. Learn how to find your most profitable audience and how to pitch your business like never before.

Accelerated Growth

Unlock the keys to scaling fast and find out how successful startups break through the initial limitations of Time, Money and People. Since startups that scale correctly grow 20 times faster than those that don’t, understanding how to scale can be the difference between excellence and mediocrity for your new venture.

Financial Intelligence

Fast track your financial learning curve. Understanding money and key financial aspects of your business can mean the difference between success and failure of your startup. You don’t have to hold an accounting degree or become an expert in reading financial statements. You just need a few critically important pieces of information that can see your startup sink or soar.

Actionable Advice

One of the best aspects of this course is our down-to-earth, tried and tested guidance and advice. No more guesswork from listening to vague and generic ideas that are impossible to implement.

Each module is followed by the exact actionable steps you need to take to reach the outcomes you are after.

Q&A

Each module ends with a Q&A session where you have the opportunity to ask the Mentors anything regarding the training. Get the answers to your burning questions from the years of experience that the mentors have to offer.

Learn from Entrepreneurs

the course runs over 2 full days. Each day comprises of 3 x 2.5 hour modules allowing for breaks in between. Our Mentors deliver a rigorous, comprehensive company-building curriculum to guide you through validating your ideas, develop your product, performing customer development, building a team, preparing for funding, navigating the competition and common mistakes to avoid. Through the weekly training and feedback sessions led by top start-up mentors, networking with fellow founders and challenging company building assignments, participants in the program make several years of progress in just 2 days.

What we cover in the

Street-Smart Startup Course

The course is presented online live at scheduled times. Check the next date by clicking the ‘Reserve My Spot Today’ button

Startup Success Tools

Accelerated Growth

Financial Intelligence

Actionable Advice

One of the best aspects of this course is our down-to-earth, tried and tested guidance and advice. No more guesswork from listening to vague and generic ideas that are impossible to implement.

Each module is followed by the exact actionable steps you need to take to reach the outcomes you are after.

Q&A

Learn from Entrepreneurs

The course runs over 2 full days. Each day comprises of 3 x 2.5 hour modules allowing for breaks in between. Our Mentors deliver a rigorous, comprehensive company-building curriculum to guide you through validating your ideas, develop your product, performing customer development, building a team, preparing for funding, navigating the competition and common mistakes to avoid. Through the weekly training and feedback sessions led by top start-up mentors, networking with fellow founders and challenging company building assignments, participants in the program make several years of progress in just 2 days.

The Street Smart Startup Course

Curriculum

Module 1: Entrepreneurial Essentials

Making the shift to the Entrepreneurial mindset
Unlocking the simple yet effective formula to selecting your most profitable specialty niche
Which generic business advice can totally destroy a Startup

Module 2: Building out your Business plan

Business revenue models and how to choose the best one for your Startup
Which commonly publicised business models are unsuitable for some startups and how to navigate your best options
Developing your unfair advantage

Module 3: Identifying and attracting the most profitable customers

How to decipher your ideal customer wants, needs and behaviours
Unlocking the shortest paths to reaching your ideal customers without paid advertising
How to formulate your pitch to make it irresistible to your ideal client

Module 4: Financial Intelligence for Startups

Identifying and securing funding options for your startup
Financial essentials every startups needs to know
The cashflow trap explained

Module 5: Beware the Dangers

Legal pitfalls every startup needs to avoid
Your Team: friend of foe?
Mistakes that cost companies millions – and how you can avoid them

Module 6: Creative Strategies to Super-charge your startup

Secrets to 10X your productivity
Must-have tools to help your Startups for peanuts or even better – free
No Money? No problem! Strategies to move you forward despite an empty bank account

The Street Smart Startup Course

Curriculum

Module 1: Entrepreneurial Essentials

Making the shift to the Entrepreneurial mindset
Unlocking the simple yet effective formula to selecting your most profitable specialty niche
Which generic business advice can totally destroy a Startup

Module 2: Building out your Business plan

Business revenue models and how to choose the best one for your Startup
Which commonly publicised business models are unsuitable for some startups and how to navigate your best options
Developing your unfair advantage

Module 3: Identifying and attracting the most profitable customers

How to decipher your ideal customer wants, needs and behaviours
Unlocking the shortest paths to reaching your ideal customers without paid advertising
How to formulate your pitch to make it irresistible to your ideal client

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Module 4: Financial Intelligence for Startups

Identifying and securing funding options for your startup
Financial essentials every startups needs to know
The cashflow trap explained

Module 5: Beware the Dangers

Legal pitfalls every startup needs to avoid
Your Team: friend of foe?
Mistakes that cost companies millions – and how you can avoid them

Module 6: Creative Strategies to Super-charge your startup

Secrets to 10X your productivity
Must-have tools to help your Startups for peanuts or even better – free
No Money? No problem! Strategies to move you forward despite an empty bank account

The Founders

Why Innovest Delivers Results?

Rick Chisholm

Tala Chisholm

We are Rick and Tala Chisholm, separate people, separate skill sets. We have founded and run over 30 small to medium businesses over the last 35 years. Between the two of us, the direct sales revenue has well exceeded $300 million.

Our experience spans across many differ industries including Education, Retail, Wholesale, Mentoring, Importing, Manufacturing, Installations, Hospitality, Franchising, Rental and e-commerce. If there was anyone that has tried and tested small business, it is us two!

We’ve been through the process of growing businesses from zero to $20mil over our entrepreneurial career in record time, If there’s anyone out there who understands how to invent and re-invent your business, it would be us.

We also have a large group of mentors with a great deal of experience in multiple specialties and industries to ensure you get sufficiently well-rounded feedback.

Here are a few of the startups we have helped get off the ground:

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TRAINING

The Topics we have selected for the training are based on our extensive business experience. What you learn has a direct relationship with where you’re at now. No nonsense or overload of irrelevant information is forced on you. This stage of your business is the most important one where you put down the building blocks for your business. We give you all the tools to ensure that your effort, time and money are NOT going to be wasted making mistakes and that your path to success is CONSIDERABLY accelerated.

THE PARTICIPANTS

Our criteria are very relaxed unlike other Accelerators and Incubators. We do not insist on full time attendance NOR do we hover over your shoulders every minute monitoring what you are up to. We believe that founders have to be self motivated and whilst we do provide accountability and there is some pain in missing out on content ultimately the onus is on the Founder to make the hard decisions and not have his or her hand held every single step of the journey.The variety of ideas that have come through the program is huge; from Technology Automation, Education, Importing, to Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. We welcome applications from technical and non-technical founders.

THE FACILITIES & RESOURCES

Along with training we also make available Co-working space, 3rd-party logistics warehousing, online training materials as well as access to our own team from VA’s, graphic designer, web developers, programmers, video editors, marketing specialists and social media experts. They can be made available to our members at subsidised rates.

Facilities & Resources

THE COMMUNITY

Apart from having a group of Startups in the same circumstances as you to share your experience with, lnnovest offers a Network of more than 40 of Professional Service Providers who have been tried and tested. We’ll hook you up with our trusted partners so you can get the preferential rates services without the stress of shopping around.

Have a listen to these awesome people

“I am benefiting from the advice I have received from Tala, as it guided me through initially confusing and intimidating first steps – I’ve never had my own business prior to engaging Tala. While I am still learning a lot, I am now stepping on firm stepping stones, instead of free-falling!”

“Tala has been instrumental in the direction and development of our company. Her extensive industry knowledge has brought an understanding that would have previously taken us years.”

“My business was complex, and Tala helped me break it down into clusters as she calls them. I recommend Tala to any startup owner who wants to be in business and wants to save on unnecessary expenses like Advertising too early before knowing their target audiences. Thank you and I will continue using you to further improve my business.”

“Tala Chisholm is a highly-skilled, experienced, and seasoned entrepreneur who has owned many successful businesses and over the years has had a wealth of experience in dealing with various business problems, and now is passionate about helping SMEs to be successful. She is a great communicator and teaches based on proven strategies that work in real life (not the textbook teacher)”

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Before You Book Yourself In

This is not a get rich scheme on our part (or yours for that matter) but a subsidized alternative where we get right down to business and introduce you to what you need to know as a Startup.

There is NO substitute for GRIT and desiring a business built on RESILIENCE, no amount of fist-pumping, board breaking, or firewalking can beat getting the job done in a no-fuss alternative, on a budget, with real leadership.

The Innovest IP, processes, training, mentorship and leadership has as a startup accelerator, launched, assisted and fostered over 100 startups.

Beware

Not All Business Advice Is Created Equal

Never Take Business Advice From...

Academics

who haven’t spent a day in business themselves

Business coaches

whose only experience has been in sucking people in but only ever operated their own coaching business. Be especially careful of the LIFE COACHES.

Business trainers

whose businesses never exceeded a fraction of even your business!

Ex-Multinational advisors

or coaches, who have never run a small business before and don’t realise how it’s a different animal to corporate.

Motivational speakers

who are great at making you laugh, cry and discover your inner purpose (supposedly, even if for only a moment), but really can’t tell you what you can do with all that BS to make $ in the real world!

Lawyers

We all need them but their job is to protect you from every risk. And what is the first thing you need to get mastered to start your own business? Risk-taking! Not saying you need to discard their advice, but really, there’s a balance.

Accountants

Sure, they’re the closest to your business and know the ins and outs but they’re always looking at the past. Secondly, what has been their experience in growing businesses outside of their accounting firm?

Regardless, if you DO decide to listen to someone for advice, just make sure they have FAILED and came back from that,

more than once, (so you don’t make the same blunders they did), AND, make sure they are at least 5 times more successful than you.

“Rick and Tala genuinely understand the challenges of business for SME owners. Thanks to their coaching and advice, I was able to get a handle on cash flow and develop an improved business planning process, helping create a great foundation for growth.”

” Tala’s commitment and dedication is second to none.Extremely business savvy and a keen eye for detail.Tala helped my business gain crucial online presence and brand recognition. Highly recommended.”

” I’ve been working with Tala for around 18 months and have really benefited from her ability to cut through clutter and focus on measuring data in an objective way. Tala is my go-to person to help simplify issues and gain momentum in making things happen. “

FAQ

Are you going to try and sell me something during this course?

We give the maximum amount of content and value possible within the time that is allocated for the session. We will at the end also let you know about the (ridiculously affordable) business education and acceleration programs that Innovest has to offer but we don’t do the hard sell on people. That’s always our promise!

So how will you know the quality we can offer? Nothing like some (almost) give-away education to give you a taste!

At the end of the two days, you will have two options:

Option 1. Walk away…
Get the confidence and skills to execute on all of the advice we have shared

Option 2. Stick around…
And move further with us for even more actionable learning

I’m just starting out, will this course teach me everything I need to know to run a business?

We will cram as much knowledge, value and strategy as we can humanly cram into those two and a half days. We will save you at least a few years and a few hundred thousand dollars on wasted experiments on your part. But to be fair, be realistic, it will take a bit more than 16 hours for you to nail it in business. It’s a mystery why people run off to uni to do a Bachelor of Business and come out the other end and not even know half the business basics needed not to go broke. And how many years do they stick into that uni degree? Answer: 3 or 4.
It’s hideous frankly. And for specialists, they come out great technicians, but do they know how to run a business? That’s the question. No, it does NOT take years and years to learn how to run a business, that’s a load of crap. You’re going to have to be prepared to work hard for your success though. That’s one of those things that we don’t have a magic bullet for. And, umm, yeah, these two and a half days will be tough work.

I’m only a start-up and can’t really afford to pay the cost of this course right now. Do you have any payment plans?

Hmm.. If it was a couple of thousand dollars, we’d totally understand. But for the value you’ll be receiving a couple of hundred dollars is crazy cheap. It’s less than what you’d spend on 2 coffees a day for a month. Find the $200 bucks, ok!

How do I know this is applicable to my business? I’m not in any of those industries that you guys have been in.

It’s applicable, and if it’s not ask for a refund. Richard Branson once said ‘If you can run one business well, you can run any business well’. We also believe that between the two of us we’ve had years of exposure across so many goods and services industries that it’s very likely we know enough about business to apply our experience it to yours. Oh, the list above is the summary, we have run many, many businesses in so many industries you will be surprised.

I’m still not sure. Do you have some guarantees I’ll get good value out of this program?

Yes we do. We will refund your $197 if you think it really wasn’t worth it or you didn’t learn something profound that you can’t honestly say:

Will likely save your business one day
You can’t implement in your business straight away and save thousands

The event is being held live online on the days specified. We will send you a notification closer to the date on how to log on to attend the event.

9:00 AM – 6:00 PM | SAT – SUN 1 – 2 May, 2021

Online Event | Details will be supplied prior to the date

RESERVE YOUR SPOT NOW

*Because we want to allow for Q&A sessions where you are able to ask us questions on the spot, we need to limit the number of spaces available, so book now otherwise you could miss out.

Disclaimer: We do NOT believe in get rich quick programs. We believe in hard work, adding value and dedication to reach your goals. It’s a fact that those who do not take action will see no results whatsoever. The results featured on this page are extraordinary results from hard work, commitment and dedication by following through and taking action. You will get no results whatsoever if you assume by soaking up information products, joining program after program your life will change with riches. If that’s you, this workshop is not for you. Your results are based upon your actions. Our products are intended to help you share your message with the world while growing your business. We can’t make any guarantees about your own results because we don’t know you. We are here to help and guide you to move forward faster by giving you excellent content, direction, and strategies to reach your end goal. Please check the content thoroughly on this page before booking.