What is CoCoon Smart Talk?

One of CoCoon's 4 core events, CoCoon Smart Talk is a monthly event dedicated to broadening people's imagination, creating impact, and making new connections. Inspiring speakers will share their journey and insights in this meetup. Check out CoCoon's other events here!

Startup Pitching: How to Win Trust and Secure Funding from Investors

Speaker: Tracy Ho

Join Frame and Fame’s Founder and Director - Tracy Ho - to arm yourself with practical and engaging methods to pitch business ideas, securing the funds you need from investors

• How to use storytelling skills to “spice up” your personal & company brand

• Pitching technique to win trust from investors

• Structure of pitch deck to effectively convey your message
  

Who should attend:

Startups and entrepreneurs looking for pitching tips and tricks to secure their funding from investors

IT'S NOT ABOUT LEARNING HOW TO SUCCEED- IT'S LEARNING HOW NOT TO FAIL!

Speaker: Ran Elfassy

Join Service Network Leadership's Director Ran Elfassy to learn the critical mindset you need if you don't want to fail. Too often, the emphasis is on how to succeed. What if that's all wrong? What if you already have what you need but are simply missing the mindset needed to help your startup soar?

In this highly engaging Seminar, Ran will introduce important ideas all entrepreneurs must respect, as well as share his impressive story of how he developed his expertise in helping entrepreneurs thrive... By avoiding failure. This is also the story of Ran's apprenticing under Po Chung – Hong Kong's legendary business leader who founded DHL International and helped build the company into the global leader it is today.

"At the heart of my Seminar," said Ran, "is the mission to help entrepreneurs know what to do to keep their startup strong." The critical step is to have the right mindset and attitude.

Rundown

12:15 - 12:30 pm Registration

12:30 - 1:00 pm - How to Win Trust and Secure Funding from Investors

1:00 - 1:30 pm - It's Not About Learning How to Succeed- It's Learning How Not To Fail

1:30 - 2:00 pm Networking

Speaker

Tracy Ho

Founder & Managing Director of Frame & Fame

Tracy is a leading personal branding strategist in Asia. She is the founder of Frame & Fame, a branding boutique in Hong Kong. As a certified coach, she helps entrepreneurs, startups, SME owners and corporate executives to stand out from the crowd with their talents, passion and unique propositions.

Tracy and her team support clients to be seen and be heard as a leader in their fields by developing impactful personal brand stories, portraits, and brand identity assets.

Her company, Frame and Fame is committed to be a go-to expert, advocate and thought leader in personal branding. In addition to coaching and consulting individual and corporate clients in building their brand, we are regularly invited to speak in various keynotes, talks, panels, and events.

Ran Elfassy

Ran is filled with gratitude for what has been an incredible life. In his 20s, he was free-climbing with a friend when his friend slipped and fell 30m off a cliff. Ran needed to get down safely, revive his friend and get a rescue team. Thankfully, his friend survived with only a horseshoe scar on his head. A few months later, Ran was a pedestrian when he was run over by a car. After one week in a coma, several months of paralysis and physiotherapy, he completely recovered.

Ran always studied part-time while working full-time. He completed a BA in Creative Writing, a post-graduate certificate in Clinical Trials Research Methodology, and an MBA. In Canada, he worked at a computer-animation studio, a few restaurants and bars, different retail shops, a human rights agency, and more. In 2003, Ran and his wife moved from Canada to Hong Kong, and within a few days, he was hired as a medical editor. In 2004, while on a surfing trip in Sri Lanka, Ran and his wife narrowly survived the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami.

In 2006, Ran met and began his apprenticeship under Po Chung, the renowned founder of DHL International (the global courier). Ran has since helped Mr. Chung on many high-profile projects, some of which include teaching Entrepreneurship, Service Network Leadership, and much more. To find out more about Ran, visit www.service-network-leadership.com