Startup Launchpad – 2022

The Startup Launchpad Program is an 8-week immersive scholarship program powered by ITIDA and delivered by the AUC Venture Lab. AUC is a member of The Babson Collaborative for Entrepreneurship Education [founded & sponsored by Babson College]. The program aims at growing the technology entrepreneurship ecosystem all over Egypt & helping entrepreneurs, practically learn about the fundamentals of building a tech startup & design solutions for real-world market needs.

We will help you turn your idea into a startup!

Through the program, participants will learn about

• The foundations of business and entrepreneurship
  This content will cover the entrepreneurial process and startup lifecycle, the business model design and canvas, foundational concepts of marketing and finance.
• Ideation using the design thinking methodology
  You will learn how to identify new innovative ideas, assess them, and develop them
• Communication and pitching
  You will work on developing your entrepreneurial communication skills by preparing a pitch deck and practicing with mentors. This will conclude with a “pitch day”.
• Validation and Mentorship
  Through this process, you will identify the key assumptions/hypotheses of your business idea, and design experiments to test and validate these ideas with actual customers.

Benefits of the program

• Fast track to join Start IT for top performers.
• Access to TIEC Consultancy service for all participants during the program.
• Access to ITIDA FabLab facilities.
• 5000 LE support upon registering your company.

Expected Outcome

• You will get the chance to practically learn all the needed steps and to turn your idea into validated startups.
• You will be able to identify, design a solution for, and test a real-world problem based on market needs.

Who can apply to the program?

Areas of interest

• Machine learning
• Mobile Applications
• Hardware, IoT, and Robotics
• IC Design
• Artificial intelligence, BlockChain, Cloud, and Data
• 5G and communication technology trends
• Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Extended Reality (XR)

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