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MediaTech Incubator
Paul O'Brien
Online technology and startup veteran, known as SEO’Brien for an extensive past in the search industry, Paul works in Venture Capital Economic Development, serving investment in entrepreneurs. With a passion for media innovation and investment, Paul seeded MediaTech Ventures, a media industry venture development group.
Former Venture Partner in Meaningful Ventures, O'Brien is Founder and CEO of MediaTech Ventures, Partner of Funded House and Director of Founder Institute for Texas.
Historically, a seasoned marketer with an early career at Yahoo! and HP. From there, Paul led the early growth of startups such as Outright.com (Acquired by GoDaddy), Zvents (Acquired by eBay’s Stubhub), and MicroVentures (Venture Capital). Paul has an unusually strong technical background considering the role he tends to play today; he built websites in the '90s and continues to engineer and produce content at seobrien.com. He was featured in the book, Online Marketing Heroes, and frequently speaks at startup and media conferences.
Introduction
The Media Tech Incubator is an intensive 12-week program focused exclusively on creative technology founders.
Our curriculum is specifically structured to teach you how to validate your idea, develop your business plan, and build your network before launching. If you're innovating in Media-Tech (advertising & marketing, film, video, VR/AR, PR & news media, publishing, video games, sound, music, podcasts, or radio our program was built for you.
What you'll learn
All of the fundamentals of entrepreneurship necessary to help launch your startup.- Idea & Validation
- Market Development
- Building a Team
- Go To Market
- Legal & Cap Table
- Business Model
- Capital
- Roadmaps
- Product & Development
- Growth
- Fundraising
- Pitching
MediaTech Incubator will consist of:
- 12-week live online classes
- In-person incubator weekend (UK cities)
- Weekly 1-2-1 Online Mentoring
- Access to the MediaTech online knowledge bank and community
- Start up US office and community support packages
- Graduate Certificate
Who is the MediaTech Incubator for?
The MediaTech Incubator Programme is for any media or technology student, graduate, professional or entrepreneur looking to launch a new venture with the help, guidance and mentoring from the Mediatech Ventures team.
What experience do I need to make the most of this course?
You don’t need any formal experience to take the Mediatech Incubator Programme but we do advise that you have had some real world experience with any form of media or technology either as an employee contractor, business owner or student.
What equipment do I need to take this course?
To do this course we advise that you have the following:
- A computer
- Internet access
- A business suite (Office, G-Suite, etc)
- A burning hunger to become your own boss and succeed