Incubation program

At the kick-off event, you will have the opportunity to meet fellow entrepreneurs and get an overview of the whole incubation program. It will be an evening filled with ice-breaking challenges, so get ready to polish one of the most important entrepreneurial skills – networking!

Do you know your industry well enough? Is your target market big enough? Is anything exciting happening in it right now? As we all know, to succeed you need to develop a product/service that people want to use. This workshop will answer those questions, as well as give you essential knowledge on conducting research with your customers and defining your target customer group.

Once you’ve confirmed who your customers are, you’ll apply that knowledge to refine your product, identifying the key features that make it stand out. You will also determine your customers’ pain points so that you can provide them with a matching solution. In the startup language, you will being to work on defining your product-market fit.

This session provides a structured approach for entrepreneurs to identify and validate market needs effectively. It guides users through defining customer pain points, exploring potential solutions, and aligning them for optimal product-market fit. By utilizing this framework, businesses can streamline their product development process and enhance their chances of meeting customer demands successfully.

Ever been on speed dating? Well, here is your chance. Sorta. In the mentoring session, you will have the chance to meet mentors 1:1 from fields such as business development, marketing, legal affairs, finance, etc., and get their advice for your business idea. That will be a great opportunity to gain new connections and determine the areas of your business that still need to be worked on. Afterward, we will move to a networking afterparty where you will get the chance to talk to seasoned professionals in a more casual setting.

Discover how to create a winning business plan that entices investors. Learn the essential elements, as well as not-so-essential ones, needed to make sure that your pitch hooks both the jury and the audience, boosting your chance of securing crucial funding for your business.

In this session, we will become familiar with data-driven methods to determine whether a startup team has an early-stage product-market fit and the ability to scale up. Teams will get familiarized with various online tools to validate their concepts inexpensively, as well as the concept of the “Pirate Metric Funnel”.

In this session we’ll focus on building the tech to support business needs in the early, highly volatile stage. The most influencing challenges we face are embracing uncertainty and changes in direction, coping with many assumptions to be false, balancing between sloppiness and overengineering, and overall business fragility.

You will learn essential legal considerations and a very exciting thing – how to open your company! We know that law is associated with a lot of paperwork, but worry not, our mentors will show you the whole process step-by-step.

The culmination of the secret to success – employee happiness! In what ways can you provide benefits for the people that are helping you with your startup, as well the things that you should consider beforehand will be covered in this workshop.

In this session, you will explore how to create and implement scalable systems and processes to support business growth and operational efficiency. Through hands-on exercises and real-world case studies, you will learn best practices in project management, resource allocation, and workflow automation.

The session will include tips on competing in pitch competitions as well as what investors want to see in one-on-one pitch meetings. This is your chance to learn how to present your startup in the best possible light.

Before approaching a venture capital fund, it would be best to know what they are actually looking for. This workshop will give you the insights into what you need to take care of before approaching a VC, as well as some tips and tricks for when you actually take action.