🚀 Startups
Unlocking the inside secrets of building a company
Level: Beginner
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September-End 2023
Mid-October 2023
Who is the program for?
This is for you if you fall under at least 2 categories:
- You wish to start a business of your own or currently own one
- You have been a freshman for over 2(two) months
- You wish to build skills in running operations, team building or growth hacking
Overview
This program offers a comprehensive exploration of a company's lifecycle, from its inception to its growth in a competitive market. Throughout the program, you'll collaborate with a small group of people to work on a real company, its products, funding cycles, and network with investors, founders, and seasoned professionals. Although startups can be challenging, by the end of the 8-week program, you'll have developed the confidence and creativity necessary to tackle such challenges, even when interning with other companies in this ecosystem.
Flow of the program
Time Commitment: Every Tuesday and Thursday for 8-weeks
Duration: 2 Hrs/Session
Format: Online Live with Recordings
Guest: Weekly Networking with Founders and Investors
Pre-requisite:
- Being Interactive
- A Mac/Window PC with Internet
Instructor
Aakash Dave
I am the founder of Colab and the Social Platform Spotmi. I have built startups, raised funds, engineered products and created a business out of my passion for products and I bring you all my learning in this program. Really excited to have you here.
Currently: Founder and Chief at
Curriculum
Starting Up
- Getting to know each other.
- Startup Lingo and Fundamentals
- Understanding the Clutter
- Picturing the next 8 weeks together (Deciding the company and scope)
- Goals of the company and deciding the vision
The Plan
- Creating an executable plan
- Building up Sprints and finding tools needed
- Splitting the work in roles and teams
- Painkillers vs Vitamins (understanding value prop of the company)
The Research
- Get the trends in the market, understanding momentum
- Summarize a way to test this out and conceptualize the formats
- Identifying the customers and demographics
The Product
- Creating a scope of features for the earliest version of the product
- Understanding an MVP
- Creating mvp that mimicks the original product more closely. Going manual or automatic
- No-Code tools to start and get going with all
- Building functionality
Forming a Team
- Identifying our strengths picking roles to deliver the best
- Delegating work to build a sustainable engine of work
Understanding the markets
- Identify the current momentum of your business
- Find the demand { What the world is leaning towards + Where can we plug in new behaviors pattern}
- Based on above point, find a sweet spot and publish a narrative.
Go-To-Market
- What is GTM and strategies
- Based on the trends from “the research”, setting up a pipeline for the testing
- A-B test
- navigating to your user in a natural fashion
Allocating Resources
- Managing personal finance with Bootstrapping
- Tools that can buy us free resources
- Burn-rate
- Expense-Income ratio
The First 100 users
- Mining the gold users (and ambassadors)
- Creating a personal experience and a customer journey
- Building a growth engine
- Iterate + Re-Iterate the above points
Network and Relationships
Users
- Build a personal Connection
- Focusing on solving their problems
- Building with the community
Investors
- Finding the leaders who actually cares
- Do your HW and cold outreach
- Dont sell; build a connect, converse and impression
- Keep the conversation going and alive
Power of Metrics
- Listing all the data points about the status of your business
- Defining working metrics and on your operations
- Understanding Vanity Metrics
Legal
- Securing IP + Assets of the company
- Forming a legal entity
- Taxes and regulations
- Bookkeeping and asset management
Pivot
- Based on metrics and Trajectory, directing the company in the right direction
- Transitioning smoothly onto a newer business model
Funding and Capital
- Approaching new investors through Cold email, Intro etc.
- Building a working relationship
- Valuing your own company and finding right amount to raise
Company Culture
- Defining a company culture
- Establishing values and roles clearly
- Keeping the team engaged
Sprints and Deadline
- Building a trajectory and roadmap
- GROWING with the flow
Instructor
Aakash Dave
I am the founder of Colab and the Social Platform Spotmi. I have built startups, raised funds, engineered products and created a business out of my passion for products and I bring you all my learning in this program. Really excited to have you here.
Currently: Founder and Chief at
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