Winners Take All - The 9 Fundamental Rules of High Tech Strategy - Tony SebaThe $80 million training program, winning products, successful innovation, idea to market Tony Seba - keynote speakerHigh Tech Strategy Consulting, Mentor Capitalist, CEO MentorTony Seba Biography - mentor capitalist, entrepreneur, author, speaker, educator, consultant
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"What I have learned in your classes has been helping me in project after project after
project.
I recently built a product that already generates $80 Million in annual sales by
following most of the rules that you outlined and by sticking with the decision process you
recommend
."
     - Stoyan Kenderov, Director of Product Strategy, Amdocs
"Tony Seba has given us both the strategy and implementation methods we needed to
completely transform our business with clarity and confidence."
- Richard Gill, CEO, Cyberglue Software Ltd
"“Tony Seba is an unbelievably
inspiring and passionate speaker

and a terrific lecturer. He has a
gift for reducing complex things
to their very essence and making
them accessible to everyone.”
- Sophie Wawrzyniak,
   Senior Business Analyst,
   Williams Sonoma, Inc.
"The best 2-day course I have ever
attended!"
Alex Van Dijk
Sales and Marketing Manager      
RML Automation
"It was without a doubt the most
intense and valuable two days of
learning that I have ever
participated in
. I have already
started your methods to the
challenges our company is facing."
 - Rory Geoghegan
Director of Sales and Marketing
ADinstruments Pty Ltd.
A must for high tech entrepreneurs
The $80 Million course!
Tony Seba has taught the Strategic Marketing of High Tech Products and Innovations course to hundreds of
entrepreneurs, product managers, marketing managers, engineers, R&D professionals, and
create new
products, millions in new revenues, and market winners.

What is this workshop?
The class participant will learn how to systematically analyze an idea, technology, product, or service
and create the best way to turn it into a winning business
. The course framework methodically breaks
down the strategy building process so you can learn
how to look for an attractive market, how to find the
right customer base
, build the right product, how to size the market, how to expand profitably, how to
build the right partnerships,  how to price for success, develop the right channels at the right time, how to
position, brand, and promote the product cost-effectively and efficiently.

This course is a must if you are involved with entrepreneurship or new product development or
commercialization.

The course has a workshop orientation: intense, hands-on, and practical. Come with a product in mind
and it will help improve its business possibilities (or find out early why it may only have a limited
market). The course is taught over two full days. A 1-day version is also available.

Who has taken (should take) this workshop?
- CEOs and senior executives of startup companies
- Directors of sales, marketing, and product strategy
- Product, marketing and brand managers
- Business development and sales managers
- R&D managers, senior engineers or engineering managers who need to interface with marketing
- Entrepreneurs starting or running new businesses
- International marketing managers
- Managers who need prioritize research and development projects

They have come from a cross-section of
Silicon Valley: Google, Cisco, Yahoo!, Oracle, Microsoft, eBay,
PayPal, NASA, Intel, Juniper, Genentech, Visa, Symantec, HP
, and many startup and large companies
around the world.

Mr. Seba
also teaches this course in-company to innovative companies like Google and Cisco Systems
and within
executive education programs at leading global business schools such as the University of
Auckland
Business School.

When should you take this workshop?
- Do you have a 'great' technology or product in a great market - but it has failed to gain traction?
-
Are you developing a new product or service?
- Do you need to prioritize technology investments?
- Do you need to identify and capture new profitable markets (but are not sure where to go next)?
- Is your organization planning on expanding internationally?
- Are revenues going sideways or down (instead of up)?
- Is your division rethinking its marketing and product development strategy?
- Are there communication problems between marketing and engineering?
Do you want your product
development team to be market savvy?

- Do you need a process to rationalize development investments into technologies with more commercial
potential
- Do you have "too many" technologies and need a framework to get a higher return on innovation?
- You need a refresher course with the latest winning strategies and tactics
in high tech?
DAY ONE
Are you selling a technology or a product? Do you have the right product for the right market?
Understanding how customers want you to build the product.
Understanding tech customer needs and how to create the right value proposition. How to
identify the most promising customers and markets.
Prioritizing customers, market segments, technology development, product development,
application development. Where are the right market opportunities. How do you decide on the
most profitable market to target? Market sizing: how do you measure the size of a market
(that doesn't yet exist?)
Strategic positioning. Getting past the clutter and into the mind of the customer.
How to make your product easy to buy. Developing products that are easy to adopt.
What is the right pricing strategy?  Understanding economic value to the customer, switching
costs, externalities and their implication in setting the right pricing strategy. How to set and
maximize prices. Setting the right global pricing strategy.
How to build the right sales and distribution channel strategy. How do you decide what channels
to use? When do you use each channel? A simple framework can help you decide.
How to build winning partnerships. Who should you partner with? How do you manage partners
the right way?
DAY TWO
- Product categories. How do you know if you might be in a new product category? (Hint: it's not
about 'radical', 'subversive', or 'revolutionary' technology!)
- Strategy throughout the adoption lifecycle. How to grow and expand your markets profitably.
- Competition in high tech.
Case Study: building a profitable, growth-oriented strategic partnership program in the
enterprise software market.
Building a winning branding strategy - without advertising, without a large budget.
Case Study: pricing a new product in a global market for a small biotech company.
How to build a winning promotion strategy - without a big budget. (Do you know which half of
your adversiting budget is being wasted?)
Putting together the strategic marketing plan.
Other Workshops:
- "Strategic Marketing of High
Technology Products and
Innovations"

-
"Business and Revenue Model
Innovation"

-"Finance for Entrepreneurs,
Marketing, and Engineering"

Participating Companies List
Sample schedule (for a 2-day workshop):
MarketingTalks@Google

Tony Seba was the Inaugural
MarketingTalks@Google  speaker
at Google's Headquarters
(
Mountain View, CA) - Nov 15, 2007

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Participating Companies

Many of the world's leading organizations
(
Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Cisco, Intel, HP,
Oracle...)
have been represented in Tony
Seba's classes. Make sure yours participates
in an upcoming program.

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Strategic Marketing of High Tech Products and Innovations
""I learned so many great insights from this class! I
also had a fantastic time working on our strategic
marketing plan! I'm glad I took it and I highly
recommend it to all my colleagues.
Thank you so
much for the wonderful experience
."
           - Amy Do, Google, Inc.
"“I really liked the fact that, with some swift
penmanship and open eyes,
I could rough
out the strategic marketing plan for our
new robotics product right there in the
class
as you taught it.”
              - Glen Slater, CEO, INRO