Innopreneurs Acceleration Program
Born in Silicon Valley, knowhow and experience from 4 global companies, 4 exits
Next Available Program
Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Concept
This is NOT a school, you are NOT in a training. This program is a high speed, real time, total energy consuming experience with your real business and entire team. You experience what “sense of urgency’ really means. You are no longer a startup but a fast growing SME. In the next 10 months, you will transform your business to a ground breaking innovator with disruptive business model.
You and your team will want to work FULL TIME on the program. There is no time for any interesting projects or other nice to haves. This program is about getting all the way to the top(i.e.IPO) in the next 5-6 years. This is the first year. :)
Who is it for
This program is for founders with aiming high and trying to get all the way to the top. You may have been at a startup accelerator or incubator and want to grow as fast as possible.
REQUIREMENTS
- All founders are full time employees and have no other business on the side
- Founders complement each other by having different backgrounds like Business, Marketing, Experts (tech, bio, health etc.)
- No founder has more than 50% equity
- The founders team holds more than 80% of the shares (equity position)
- Your company is registered, yet less than 8 years old
- You had a first round of funding.
- You have a first version of your product in the market.
- You have a documented market validation from more than 23 customers
- Your website is in English or has an English version in addition to a local language version
- You are ready to gain traction in the market
- Ideally you are an alumni from 500 Startups, Y-Combinator, Zünder Switzerland or other notable accelerators.
1) Program locations
The accelerator program is available in three continents: San Francisco, CA for the Americas, Zürich, Switzerland for EMEA and Saigon, Vietnam for Asia. All programs are exclusively in English. The first week is a local bootcamp and the following weeks are performed locally at the companies location with weekly online sessions.
2) English Language
The whole program is in English. Attendees will listen, having dialogs and present in English. We do not provide any local language versions as all attendees will need to communicate globally in English during the program.
3) Participation Mandatory
Participating in each online session and working on the project work between the sessions is mandatory for completing the program and receiving a certificate.
4) Required Tools
For the project work, attendees need high speed internet, PowerPoint and Excel. Project work may need to be presented. Other tools include LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.
5) Instructors
Instructors are experienced entrepreneurs or authorized instructors trained by experienced entrepreneurs.
6) Certificates
At the end of the program is a test. Attendees who successfully completed the test will receive a certificate of participation.
Fees
As a non profit organization we ask for a program fee to cover our cost. For teams from specific countries, we are able to provide stipends to further help attend.
We do not take any equity
Standard Fees
$12,500, for founders teams with HQ in any developed country.
Stipend
Fees with approved stipends:
$2,750, for startup teams with HQ in
Argentina, Bolivia, Cambodia, Columbia, Cuba, Ghana, Indonesia, Kenya, Malaysia, Mexico, Nepal, Nigeria, Peru, Rwanda, Uganda, Vietnam.
$3,800 for any other developing and emerging nations
Program Timeline
Month 1
– Mindset and company culture
– Market leadership, team leadership, technology leadership, business leadership
– Your unique value proposition
– MILESTONE 2 – Presenting your leadership concept
2) INNOVATION OPPORTUNITY DISCOVERY
Month 2
– Deep Innovation Design Model
– Innovation Dream Team Assembly
– Identifying innovation opportunities in your market
– Market outreach for open innovation projects
– Customer and partner engagement
– Exploring, verifying and deciding to innovate
– Creating your Innovation Strategy
– MILESTONE 2 – Presenting your innovation strategy
3) NEURO IDEATION
Month 3
Week 3, 10:00 AM CET (GMT+1) | 04:00 PM ICT (GMT+7)
– Ideation kick off and introduction o the concept
– Multi stage ideation process
– Selected customer involvement
– Solution Definition
– MILESTONE 3 – Presenting your ground breaking innovation (Yes you can)
4) DISRUPTIVE BUSINESS MODEL
Month 4
– Experience Innovation
– Disruptive Business Model Development
– Finding the disruptive Moment
– Forming the disruptive business model
– Product adjustments to reflect the business model
– MILESTONE 4 – Presenting your disruptive business model
5) IDEA VALIDATION & FINANCING
Month 5
– Prepare for a full circle idea validation
– Validating the solution
– Validating the business model
– Innovation Financing
– Presenting the outcome
6) INNOVATION BUILDING
Month 6
– Building out the possible solution
– Ensuring the solution also represents the business model
– Exploring early versions with key clients (early adopters)
– Presenting the outcome
7) INNOVATION-TO-MARKET STRATEGy
Month 7
– Applying the Innovation To Market model
– laser focused audience definition and involvement
– Customer integrated marketing (Advocacy)
– Using all available online tools to go to market
– Launch the Go-To-Market strategy
– Presenting the outcome
8) GROWTH HACKING I
Month 8
– Conducting weekly growth hacking meetings
– Vary the campaigns and engage very personally
– Replace sales & marketing automation with team engagement
– Customer satisfaction and how to get there
– Presenting the outcome
9) GROWTH HACKING II
Month 9
– Continue weekly growth hacking meetings
– Why sales and marketing execution is now life or death
– Reviewing and perfecting the sales process
– Preparing to scale on the customer interaction side
– Presenting the outcome
10) INVESTOR RELATIONS & PITCHES
Month 10
– Best way to build highly successful investor relations
– Outreach to potential investors and VCs
– Preparing your fundraising presentation for international investors and VCs
– Working on the capitalization strategy with the whole leadership team
– Presentation dry runs
DEMO DAY
Demo Day Video Conference Date TBD,
– Approximately 800 investors will be invited
– Teams pitch online and in some countries locally to investors
– Graduation speech by World Innovations Forum team members
World Innovations Forum Foundation
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