Startup Accelerator

Research and ideas from college students and young entrepreneurs can find a way to commercial success with proper training, collaboration, mentorship and access to connections/capital. Our goal is to create a virtual “entrepreneurial program”. Our Startup Accelerator program will provide training for high demand skills, access to global innovators and successful entrepreneurs, mentorship on life skills and collaboration with like-minded colleagues in the ecosystem.
 
These skills will help you increase your job prospects, differentiate in getting higher education opportunities and prepare you for an entrepreneurial career.
 
Initially, we will focus on:
  • Coaching on different aspects in your startup journey: Ideation, Developing a Prototype, Pitch and raising capital
  • Building life skills necessary for an entrepreneur. Communication. Articulating your Idea. Handling rejection
  • Understand sales and marketing, monetization models and pricing
  • Active mentorship
  • Sales acceleration via access to channels and partnerships

We have developed a series of intensive workshops that can help you with the journey. Some sample content below.

Workshops

  1. Idea to Prototype : Covers aspects of getting started, Ideation, Pitch, Customer Demo, Developing a prototype
  2. Lean Startup Workshop : Building your MVP, Iterating through customer feedback, pivoting
  3. Sales, Marketing and Partnerships : Building a lead pipeline, converting leads to deals, buyer personas, building partnerships

Ideation

 

Ideation is the process of coming up a lot of ideas, classifying and ranking them in a systematic manner and choosing the ones that you can take to the next step.

Pitch Deck

 

Pitch deck helps you understand various facets of what makes a startup investable and how you can create a memorable pitch.

Getting started with Funding your startup

 

What are the different forms of funding, when should you ask for money, what makes a startup investable and how can you navigate this journey