​Workshop Schedule & Information
Learn BELOW how you can WIN a Moonshot Scholarship valued at $3,000! 
​​Thanks to our co-sponsors, The Arizona Commerce Authority & the City of Flagstaff!​

April 19-23, 2020 Workshop Schedule​

Upon registering, you'll receive links to all workshops, keynotes, and live Q&A sessions with keynote speakers.


​How to Prepare Startup Financials

Instructed by John Kalinich 
This class will take you through what is required by investors when looking at your financials. Whether you are pre-revenue and wish to raise funding for an idea or operating a business that is generating sales, financials are a critical element to your funding journey. You will learn what investors look for, how to find data to support your business plan and how to package this information into a presentable package. 

John Kalinich, Moonshot at NACET Board Member and Operating Partner with Swiftarc Ventures, will host this class and share with you his experiences and insights.  

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Accelerating Development & Manufacturing

Instructed by Nathan Friedman
Medical product development can be a complex and involved process, but there are ways to streamline your development process.  This session will discuss how to prioritize and sequence some of your product development tasks as well as considerations for outsourcing and partnering in certain areas to ensure you are most effectively utilizing your time.  Possible areas for outsourcing and partnering could include device design and manufacturing, regulatory submissions and contract testing. 

​Nathan Friedman, a Moonshot at NACET Board member and Engineer at WL Gore and Associates will give insights from his 15 years of experience in medical device development.
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Direct Sales Vs Distribution Strategy

Instructed by Dan Kasprzyk
Upon completion of your initial prototype development, market assessment studies, in-house manufacturing vs. contract manufacturing, regulatory affairs submissions, approvals; “How are we going to generate revenue and profits?”  Whether you use a direct sales strategy or key distribution network to penetrate your market the first step is for the founder/entrepreneur to become your company’s greatest sales resource. If your founding expertise is a technical engineering role and sales makes your stomach ache then find a partner that LOVES to sell and believes in your product/service. 
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Dan Kasprzyk, Moonshot at NACET Board Member and founder of POBA Medical, will cover the benefits of the individual approaches including a licensing model and leave you with some thought-provoking paths including your important investment in digital marketing and LinkedIn utilization.
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Gorilla Recruiting & Hiring

Instructed by Joe Mullings
You say “your people are your number one asset”, true! But do you really know how to get them to your company? Most of the time your hiring strategy is “post & pray” and that is not effective because A-Players are not answering job postings as they are busy with their heads down solving problems. Or you hit your network, and that is fine, but that is usually a shallow pool and you have just limited your search to people you know.

You can pay a search firm, but do you really have $40k to spend on a role given all of your other requirements?Successful hiring is a Hum-Sing-Shout strategy and if you commit to 3 hours a week, you can keep your pipeline healthy and bring on force multipliers to your team.

Joe Mullings is the Chairman & CEO of the Mullings Group Companies and has been featured in Forbes, CNBC, Business Insider, Yahoo Finance, NY Post, and Monster. Joe is also the host of the TrueFuture TV series. 
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Intellectual Property Protection

Instructed by David Johns
Condensing the full Moonshot IP Law Workshop, this quick primer will provide an overview of options for intellectual property protection of your inventive concepts and competitive position in the marketplace.  Explanations of patents, trade secrets, trademarks, copyrights, and some common IP-related agreements will be provided along with examples of how IP protection can be used in practice. 

The course will be taught by Moonshot at NACET Board Member David Johns, in-house IP Counsel for a Flagstaff-based medical device manufacturer. ​
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The Business of Bio Bootcamp is co-sponsored by
​the ​Arizona Commerce Authority & the City of Flagstaff.


  • A drawing will occur following the week’s closing on Friday, April 23rd for an annual membership to the Moonshot at NACET incubator program. The scholarship is valued at $3,000.

  • To qualify for the drawing, attendees must attend all 5 workshops, keynotes and be present to win at the time of the drawing on April 23rd. The scholarship winner will receive a year of Moonshot mentoring and advising (which includes access to capital, customers and connections for scale and growth)and the ability to take Moonshot’s Pioneer Academy entrepreneurial Track 1 and 2 curriculum.

  • Many thanks to the Flinn Foundation & City of Flagstaff for sponsoring this fantastic scholarship!