The pre-acceleration program is directed to test innovative ideas for viability and further transform them into products at an early stage using simple and effective tools. This program gives an understanding that any idea has the right to exist if it is well worked on. The focus of the program is on validating the client and the value proposition of the product/service you want to offer.
April, 18, 2023
6 weeks
Free
April 9, 2023, (23:59)
🎓The pre-acceleration program is aimed at testing ideas for real viability in market conditions. We will teach you how to research a value proposition, qualitatively analyze the market, and also help create product prototypes and test them with users and potential target audiences.
An important aspect is that CfE mentors accompany the teams throughout the journey. Participants receive feedback during each stage and get the best possible result. The program is a high-quality collaboration, so the team must be ready to allocate time to perform practical tasks and improve the idea.
🎓 Completing the Pre-acceleration program takes the team to a new level, where there are already have:
🔵Thus, the team can enter the Acceleration Program, where the goal is to transform the prototype into a promising business.
❗ We emphasize that the program does not provide investments for a startup upon its completion. It is free and designed for the stage of idea validation, client development, and business model search.
Pre-acceleration is designed for 6 weeks and includes:
The program includes next modules:
🔵The program is running online
💻 The program is aimed at teams with a product at the stage of the idea or early minimum viable product (MVP) and will be useful both for entrepreneurs who want to try a new business and for teams from the academic community who need the knowledge and opportunities to turn their ideas into business – projects.
Requirements for teams:
🔵Teams that have passed the New Venture Launchpad will have an advantage in the selection process.
Do you have any questions? – Write to us, we are always happy to help!
Contact person: Daryna Prydka ✉
e-mail: prydkadaryna@ucu.edu.ua
Nazar knows exactly how to be a leader and create successful projects. His work combines knowledge of the market, a clear structure, analytics, and most importantly, how to apply knowledge in practice and achieve success.
💼 Oksana is an entrepreneur, so she perfectly knows and understands all the intricacies of building business communication.
🎓Technology team mentor, a specialist in project development strategy, who knows how important it is to be a leader and how to apply these skills successfully.
💻 Sofia is an entrepreneur, co-founder, and COO at Propertymate (a startup that recently passed the acceleration program at Techstars). She spent the last three years in real estate technology. Experienced in product and business development and building the team behind it. Previously COO at Brainify, and Marketing Director at Duna.
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Speaker Trainer at TEDxLviv
Andrew Balyk – Product Manager at SoftServe, has 5+ years of experience in product management and business analysis in the field of technology and has the skills to scale products or operations in a fast-growing environment.
🔹 Andrii Milinevskyi is an international professional in transformation, innovation, customer experience management, product and service design, and sales.
– Founder and CEO CXdesign: Strategy and Business Design
– Senior Director and Vice President Product at web3 IaaS startup Impossible Cloud.
– Having more than 20 years of executive work in telecom – Kyivstar, Beeline, Golden Telecom – Andrii in partnership founded the CX design agency, which helps large Ukrainian businesses to build success through effective client-centricity. The agency creates holistic customer experience management systems and builds excellent services and competitive products using design thinking methods.
– Andrii has led transformation, innovation, excellent customer experience, marketing, and sales at a large international telecom since 1997. From 2007-2010, he also managed a large telecom company: CEO of Golden Telecom and Beeline in Ukraine.
– From 2010-2016, as B2B Director and Chief Transformation Officer, Andriy managed the client-centric transformation of Kyivstar: the creation of the Customer Experience Management function and Big Data direction, reorganization of B2B Sales and Marketing, Call Center, design of Retail transformation, omnichannel program, implementation of digital.
– Andrii – MBA from Maastricht School of Management (Netherlands), design thinking practitioner, certified Partner and Sales Consultant of Miller Heiman Group, and Technology of Participation.
