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Operation Startup offers a wide range of high impact educational workshops about various stages of entrepreneurship. All of our workshops are themed around the nine building blocks that make uo the business model canvas. We are so fortunate to have a collection of dedicated subject matter experts that are able to deliver these workshops to you.
Andy is a long term entrepreneur with 14 years of experience on Wall street, and nearly 25years of experience practicing entrepreneurship. His areas of specialization include financial modeling social entrepreneurship, developing an entrepreneurial mindset, and effectuation.
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Workshops Offered
Business Modeling 101
Entrepreneurial Mindset: Who Owns The Ice House
Effectuation: The entrepreneurial method
Financials 101
Creativity, Innovation, and Human Centered Design
Beth Kerly is a full-time tenured business faculty member at Hillsborough Community College. Kerly serves as the co-founder of the HCC Entrepreneurship program, and Operation Startup. Ms. Kerly founded BK Consulting, a marketing advisory service company, and co-founded e2Venture. Her areas of specialization include sales & marketing, value proposition development, and customer development.
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Workshops Offered
Business Modeling 101
Entrepreneurial Mindset: Who Owns The Ice House
Effectuation: The entrepreneurial method
Ramón is social entrepreneur with vast experience in science and research. a Taking his innate curiosity, love of science, creativity and entrepreneurial instincts, Ramón helped found Eutopia Research Group with the mission of bringing social entrepreneurs and STEM professionals together to develop solutions for upcoming challenges humanity will face in the 21st century.
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Workshops Offered
Business Modeling 101
Entrepreneurial Mindset: Who Owns The Ice House
Effectuation: The entrepreneurial method
Financials 101
Jenny is a long time entrepreneur and active participant in the Tampa Bay entrepreneurial ecosystem. Her business, Solvability focuses on providing government contracting strategy focused on business acceleration. She has expertise in human resources and QuickBooks as well. Jenny is a passionate supporter of Veterans in an alliance to promote financial freedom for our families and our communities.
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Workshops Offered
QuickBooks Online
Accounting Basics
Human Resources for Small Businesses
Government Contracting 101
Roger is a financial professional with years of experience helping individuals and businesses gain a deeper understanding of financial matters and how to maximize financial performance.
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Workshops Offered
How Money Works For Entrepreneurial Leaders
Jen is a self-proclaimed insurance geek. She is a local Property and Casualty Insurance Agent and Community Leader. She is on the Board of Directors for The South Tampa Chamber of Commerce, The President of Hillsborough Community Collage Business Advisory Board, an Ambassador for Working Women of Tampa Bay, and is an Active Member of the Junior League of Tampa. Jen enjoys working with entrepreneurs directly, helping her clients understand the why behind the coverage.
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Jen McDonald
@jenmcdonaldhcc(Twitter)
Jenmcdonald@merchantinsurancesolutions.com (email)
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Workshops Offered
Insurance 101
Joe is the Founder/Owner of Transition Masters, a not for profit organization that teaches people to confidently and credibly present themselves to organizations during job search. He was a mentor during Operation Startup at the WAVE and regularly attends One Million Cups. The best ideas are often overlooked, but the best presentation gets the attention of investors and clients. Are you ready to take your business venture to the next level?
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Workshops Offered
Pitch Masters
Salma Benkabbou is The Millennial Business Lawyer™ and the lead legal strategist at The Benkabbou Law Firm where she Helps Entrepreneurs Protect their Creative Greatness™. Her office is physically located in the heart of Salma’s hometown, downtown Tampa. Being a business owner herself, Salma prides herself on being able to help her clients strategize from a business perspective as well as protect their ventures from a legal perspective. Her firm’s clients range from start-up companies to multi-million dollar companies.
Salma Bankabbou, Esq
@millennialbizlawyer (Instagram)
salma@benkabboulawfir
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Workshops Offered
Business Modeling 101
Entrepreneurial Mindset: Who Owns The Ice House
Effectuation: The entrepreneurial method
Financials 101
Workshops Offered
Lets Understand Intellectual Property
12 years of real estate experience in Florida. The last 10 years have been focused in Tampa Bay and the I-4 Corridor, with over 10 million SF of transactions closed, and many thousands of acres of land sold in Central and SW Florida.
Prior to starting Fortress Commercial Real Estate, Kostas was Senior Associate at CBRE, Associate Director of Industrial Sales and Leasing for Cushman & Wakefield and Sales Associate at Grubb & Ellis in Tampa.
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Workshops Offered
Commercial Real Estate for Startups
Ashley specializes in business law and estate planning. She has a passion for entrepreneurship, small businesses, and financial planning. Ms. Zohar works to solve her client's needs by providing solutions in an efficient and affordable manner. These are common issues every new business owner struggles to understand.
Ashley Zohar, Attorney
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Workshops Offered
Legal Issues for Startups
Sam Altman, US Army Reservist and Co Founder of weCONGO, a proud ‘Built in Tampa’ startup, that helps facilitate efficiency in business networking. Sam is a newly returned Tampanian having been born in Dade City, FL, but left at an early age to spend the last 35 years in DC, the Army, and most recently, JP Morgan Investment Bank in New York City. Sam leverages skills learned in the military intelligence and investment community to increase his efficiency in purpose driven networking.
Sam Altman
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Workshops Offered
How To Build A Success Network
Angel Anderson, a 20 year Air Force veteran, experienced Toastmaster, and a marketing planner deploying video for local companies seeking more clients.
Angel Anderson
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Workshops Offered
Rewriting the Marketing Rule book
How to Create a Landing Page and Explainer Video
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Katie Wolf
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Workshops Offered
QuickBooks Online
Accounting Basics
Human Resources for Small Businesses
Leon is a long-time entrepreneur with exceptional experience in selling, and sales strategies. Leon has experience n business development and consulting for nearly two decades. Leon has experience in real estate, sales, and marketing. Leon is the founder of Cutting Edge Concierge, a food & technology service. Aside from his entrepreneurial ventures, Leon is an active participant in many community organizations, including 1 Million Cups, Tampa
Leon Donovan
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Workshops Offered
S.A.L.E.S. Sales Always Looming Everywhere Strategically
Greta is an accomplished business professor, small business mentor, entrepreneur, and Veteran advocate. She has been teaching business courses for over 13 years. She is also a fundraiser with experience in Annual Giving, Board Development and Strategic Planning. Greta is an entrepreneur - in - residence at Operation Startup, and is a go-getter! She started her career in Television Broadcasting and after a some reflection, changed her mind and life and went back to school to complete her MBA. She is working on her Ph.D. in Business Strategy while she teaches full-time and helps local businesses. Biz Dynamics Group is her current business, where she connects business entrepreneurs with each other, to build upon their strengths.
Greta Kishbaugh, MBA
Assistant Professor, Entrepreneurship
St. Pete College
@gretakishbaugh(Twitter)
agold3@hccfl.edu (email)
813-609-8803 (office)
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Workshops Offered
How To Create An Explainer Video
How To Create Graphics Through Canva