Venture Milestones and Coaching
After participating in each Seminar, the Fellows are responsible to apply the lessons learned and turn in a Venture Milestone assignment. The Fellows will submit a total of 6 venture milestones throughout the course of the Fellowship, the last of which is an executive summary created from the previous five. By the end of the program, fellows have the foundation for a solid business plan.
You can also learn more about coaching and the great advice coaches can offer to fellows.
You can also learn more about coaching and the great advice coaches can offer to fellows.
The First Venture Milestone Assignment
What is your Egypt—and what will your Promised Land look like?
Before an entrepreneur can go out and change the world, he or she needs to identify what in the world is broken, and then how the world will look like once it is fixed, and why the venture they’re proposing will do the work necessary to move the world from Egypt to the Promised Land.
Using any variety of media—written, video, sound or graphics—please compose a short explanation of your venture’s quest, expressing why your Egypt is as troubling as it is, and why getting to your Promised Land is so important that you need to push along.
Before an entrepreneur can go out and change the world, he or she needs to identify what in the world is broken, and then how the world will look like once it is fixed, and why the venture they’re proposing will do the work necessary to move the world from Egypt to the Promised Land.
Using any variety of media—written, video, sound or graphics—please compose a short explanation of your venture’s quest, expressing why your Egypt is as troubling as it is, and why getting to your Promised Land is so important that you need to push along.
Sample Explanations
"Many young Jews return to their communities after participating in long term Israel programs and are inspired to talk about their experience and take part in the Jewish community. Unfortunately, their platform is limited to speaking at their synagogue to an audience that is already bought into an active Jewish life and a strong connection to Israel. Soon their passion and energy from their Israel experience fades."
- David Lasday, 2010 Global Fellow
"The Geneva Convention for the Protection of Refugees does not allow deportation of refugees—those who will be persecuted in their country of origin due to ethnicity, religion, and/or affiliation with a political group. Unfortunately, hundreds of thousands of refugees are denied asylum every year, and intercepting refugees at the border, killing refugees at the border, and deportations are becoming increasingly common in everywhere from Europe to China to the United States."
- Mollie Gerver, 2010 Global Fellow
- David Lasday, 2010 Global Fellow
"The Geneva Convention for the Protection of Refugees does not allow deportation of refugees—those who will be persecuted in their country of origin due to ethnicity, religion, and/or affiliation with a political group. Unfortunately, hundreds of thousands of refugees are denied asylum every year, and intercepting refugees at the border, killing refugees at the border, and deportations are becoming increasingly common in everywhere from Europe to China to the United States."
- Mollie Gerver, 2010 Global Fellow
