Entrepreneurship Workshops

Five Essentials of Business Workshop Series

Hosted by Entrepreneur In Residence Richard McDonald.

Richard MacDonald, Jr. is an internationally experienced practice founder and business leader who has successfully led digital transformation programs for multi-national companies around the world as a consulting partner at PwC and consulting executive at Cisco Systems.

Richard co-founded PwC’s Communications Industry consulting practice in the U.S. and grew that practice to $200 million in three years.  During this time Richard became a partner and was assigned client service partner for Verizon.  He then co-founded PwC’s Market & Customer Management consulting practice in the U.S. and grew that practice to over $100 million in three years.  He then moved to Hong Kong and founded PwC’s Asia Pacific Market & Customer Management consulting practice, and grew that practice to $53 million in two years.  After ten years, in 2002, Richard and his fellow partners had an exit when they sold PwC Consulting to IBM for $3.5 billion.

Richard later joined Cisco System as head of global accounts consulting where he led several large, complex digital transformation programs for companies such as State Farm and American Express.

Currently Richard is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the University of Miami, and for the past two years, has been an instructor and mentor at 500 Startups, a venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley.  At 500 Startups Richard teaches various courses in its Growth Accelerator

Episode 3: Talking to Customers

Join us for the third of 5 sessions we’re hosting to teach you the main things to consider when starting your business. Episode 2 will cover customer development and how to talk to your customers. Our guest speaker Dick Macdonald will be sharing the lessons he teaches in 500 Startups and companies at The Launch Pad.

Episode 4: Business Models

Join us for the fourth of 5 sessions we’re hosting to teach you the main things to consider when starting your business. Episode 4 will cover designing and planning your business model. Our guest speaker Dick Macdonald will be sharing the lessons he teaches in 500 Startups and companies at The Launch Pad.

Episode 5: Core Competencies 

Join us for the fifth of 5 sessions we’re hosting to teach you the main things to consider when starting your business. Episode 5 will cover understanding your core competencies and how they can give you advantages. Our guest speaker Dick Macdonald will be sharing the lessons he teaches in 500 Startups and companies at The Launch Pad.