“I found the event both stimulating and enjoyable. I just wish you had staged it six months ago and we at PGI might have saved ourselves a great deal of time, money and frustration.” Keith Edwards of PGI commenting on Zero-to-Hero 2005.

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    Fast Track to Fast Growth

"A competition for ambitious and innovative companies"

Do you have what it takes to join the fast track? If so, you should be entering Zero-to-Hero 2006.

Catalyst Venture Partners is seeking 20 ambitious companies to take part in a free, day long work camp with leading funders of innovative businesses. The camp will be held on Wednesday 29th March 2006 at the RBS Williams Formula 1 Conference Centre in Oxfordshire.

Places are allocated by way of competition. Entering is simple. All you have to do is email a copy of an Executive Summary business plan (maximum 6 pages) to: zerotohero@catvp.com. The closing date for entries is Monday 6th March 2006.

Eligible companies are those for whom technological application and innovation provides the underlying rationale for their business.

What will companies get from the day?

 Companies will be able to:

• Evaluate their business propositions against the standard required.
• Understand the funding process and the time required for each stage of the process.
• Develop a critical appreciation of the nature of the financing offers they are likely to receive and how to evaluate them.
• Meet key investors in their sector and develop personal contacts.

Want to know more?

• Download the competition PDF (requires Acrobat Reader).
• See what last years participants thought.
• See the agenda for the work camp.