ON-RAMP Bootcamp
The ON-RAMP Bootcamp at Seattle University is a six-week training workshop for aspiring entrepreneurs, offering expert-led sessions on finance, strategy, marketing, funding, and operations.
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2025 Bootcamp Schedule
| Date | Session |
|---|---|
| Aug 23 | Bootcamp Basics |
| Sep 6 | What You Need to Know About the Numbers |
| Sep 13 | Planning, Thinking Strategically and Managing Your Risk |
| Sep 20 | Getting Resources (Including Money) When You Do Not Have Any Money |
| Sep 27 | Customers Drive the Business |
| Oct 11 | Operations, Organizing and Other Fundamentals That Matter |
Bootcamp Basics: The Entrepreneurial Dream, Introduction
August 23, 2025, 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Instructor: Professor Michael H. Morris, PhD, Entrepreneurship & Social Innovation, Notre Dame University, Keough School of Global Affairs
- It All Starts with an Idea
- Thinking the Entrepreneurial Way
- The Nature of the Entrepreneurial Experience
- Entrepreneurship as a Process
- Entrepreneurship as a Journey
- Why Anyone Can Do It
- Key Competencies and Skills
- The Four Types of Ventures that Entrepreneurs Start
- The Commodity Trap
- Opportunity versus Concept
Networking Session: 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.
What You Need to Know About the Numbers
September 6, 2025, 8:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Guest Instructor: TBD
- Understanding Your Model for Making Money
- Basic Economics of Your Business
- Determining How Much You Have to Sell to Survive
- What You Really Need to Know About Financial Statements
- Why Cash Flow is King
Networking Session: 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.
Planning, Thinking Strategically and Managing Your Risk
September 13, 2025, 8:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Instructor: Professor Mark A. Chinen, JD, Professor of Law, Seattle University School of Law
- Working On Your Business Not Just In Your Business
- Planning versus the Business Plan
- Audiences for Plans
- The Logic and Structure of a Good Plan
- Mistakes Made in Writing Your Plan
- How to Use the Plan
- Strategic Thinking, Your Profit Model, How to Address the Commodity Trap
- Mitigating Risks Surrounding Your Business
Networking Session: 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.
Getting Resources (Including Money) When You Do Not Have Any Money
September 20, 2025, 8:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Instructor: Professor Peter Rowan, Executive Director, Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center at the Albers School of Business and Economics
- Getting Resources When You Don't Have Any
- How to Bootstrap and Leverage Resources
- What About Money?
- How Much Money
- Sources of Money; When to Use What Source
- How to Approach the Various Sources
- What an Entrepreneur Needs to Know About Negotiation
Networking Session: 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.
Customers Drive the Business
September 27, 2025, 8:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Instructor: Joseph Barnes, Associate Clinical Professor, Marketing, Albers School of Business and Economics
- Markets and Marketing
- Understanding your Customers
- Segmenting the Market
- The Guerrilla Concept
- Doing More with Marketing While Spending Less
- Entrepreneurial Approaches to Core Marketing Decisions
Networking Session 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.
Operations, Organizing and Other Fundamentals That Matter
October 11, 2025, 8:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Instructor: TBD
- Formal Operations
- Designing Your Formal Operating Model
- A Day in the Life and Associated Issues of Value, Quality, Bottlenecks, Suppliers and More
- Finding People: What You Need to Know About Employees and Staffing Issues
- Forms of Organization
- Other Fundamentals that Matter
- Your First 100 Days
Networking Session: 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.
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