The Startup Guide Pre-accelerator is designed for early-stage startup founders looking to kickstart their startup development. No matter if you have just a few or a thousand questions when it comes to building a successful startup and attracting your first investment, we will help and guide you through the process. This 4 week equity-free training and mentoring program is led by the experts from FIRSTPICK, an early stage venture capital fund focused on Baltic tech founders.

The program includes:

• 4 workshops
• Weekly one-on-one mentoring sessions
• Online support
• Online platform for self-study
• Experience-sharing sessions between programs participants and experienced founders

What you will learn:

• Top reasons why startups fail and succeed
• Startup development phases and the path to product-market fit
• How to use different types of experiments to validate your business idea
• Market research and competitor analysis
• Fundraising process, options and how to prepare
• Effective pitching for investors

Up to 15 founders/teams will be selected to participate in the program. Selected participants will be informed via email.

Program starts: September 12^th, 2022

Program duration: 4 weeks

Apply here

Deadline for Applications: 2022-08-21