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After the programme we will take our top teams to an international road show, where they will have the opportunity to visit several Microsoft Ventures Offices, meet investors, accelerators and fellow entrepreneurs.
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Startup Braga is an innovation hub designed to assist the inception and development of high potential entrepreneurial projects for international markets.
In partnership with Microsoft Ventures we provide business acceleration programmes for startups with global ambitions.
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Startup BragaAcceleration Programme
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By providing startups a programme designed to help them build, execute and validate their business model, we want to increase their chances of success and facilitate access to international accelerators, markets and funding.
We will use the Lean Startup approach, emphasizing the business model over the business plan, encouraging a process of customer discovery and development, and iterations to achieve the right product/market fit.
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We focus on startups that develop mobile, web, gaming, medtech, e-commerce and internet of things products.
During the program, startups are expected to iterate rapidly but at their own pace, according to their maturity and need while receiving intensive mentoring, training and guidance by specialist in technical and business aspects.
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Week 1 - 3: DefineIn the first 4 weeks, the teams will have access to workshops on Business Model Canvas and Lean Startup. Using the knowledge and the tools, the teams will then focus on validating the problem and the solution.
Week 4 – 12: BuildIn the second phase of the program, the teams will be focused on building, testing and validating the minimum viable product and collecting and incorporating the feedback of potential clients.
Week 13 - 15: PitchThe last two weeks, will be spent on preparing the pitch and all the documentation necessary for potential partners and investors.
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Week 1 - 3: Define
There will be 4 Bootcamps that will allow the teams to work on the several blocks of the Business Model and will allow them to have a clear vision of the problem and the market.
BOOTCAMPS: Deep training using the proposed methodologies; Hands-on approach to build and iterate business
models; Knowledge and experience sharing; Case studies discussion.
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Week 4 - 12: Build
Teams will be focused on building, fine tuning, testing and validating the minimum viable product and collect and incorporate the feedback of potential customers.
WORKSHOPS: Scrum & Agile Development User eXperience PR & Communication Growth Hacking
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Week 13 - 15: Pitch
The last two weeks, will be spent on preparing the pitch and all documentations for investors. To help with these final preparations, we will have the following workshops:
Legal Affairs Fundraising Pitch training
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Experienced Mentors
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Franklin LuzesMicrosoft Ventures Brazil
Gastão TaveiraAltitude
Rui PaivaWeDo
Luis Moura e SilvaWIT Software
David DarschCEO-CF
Pedro JanelaWyGroup
Turi MuntheDemotix
Tiago Silva LopesPortugal Telecom
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Andy McCartneyMicrosoft Ventures UK
António MurtaPhatena
Carlos OliveiraInvestBraga
Francisco V. ZellerSamsung
Paulo PimentaKuantokusta
João CoutoMicrosoft Portugal
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Celso MartinhoSapo.pt
João Paulo GirbalCentromarca
Agenda
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Application www.StartupBraga.com Until: August 10th
Pre-Selection Startup Braga Team Announcement: August 26th
Selection Pitch 5m Pitch + 15m Q&A September 2nd
Selection Startup Braga Committee Announcement: September 10th
Start Day Welcome Event September 24th
Spring 2015 International Road Show
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Timeframe
SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER
Day 0 [24th September] Welcome session and Peer-to-Peer Pitch
Week 1 [25th & 26th September]
Entrepreneurship 101 & Business Model Canvas
Week 2 [2nd & 3rd October]
Lean Startup & Customer Development
Week 3 [10th
& 11th October]
Team Work / Mentorship session
Phase 1: Define
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OCTOBER / NOVEMBER
Week 4 [ 16th & 17th October]
Scrum and Agile Development
Week 5 [24th & 25th October]
Team Work / Mentorship session
Week 6 [30th & 31st October]
A/B Testing and Metrics / Growth Hacking
Week 7 [7th & 8th November]
Team Work / Mentorship session
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Phase 2: Build
NOVEMBER / DECEMBER
Week 8 [13th & 14th November] User eXperience
Week 9 [21th & 22nd November] Team Work / Mentorship session
Week 10 [27th & 28th November] PR and Communication
Week 11 [5th a 6th December] Team Work / Mentorship session
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Phase 2: Build
DECEMBER / JANUARY
Week 12 [11th & 12th December] Legal Affairs & Attracting Investment
Week 13 [19th & 20th December] Team Work / Mentorship session
Week 14 [8th, 9th & 10th January] Pitch training and preparation
Week 15 [15th & 16th ] Team Work
22nd of January Startup Day
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Phase 3: Pitch
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International Road showDuring the 2015 spring we will take the top teams to an international road show, where they will have the opportunity to visit several Microsoft Ventures Offices, meet investors, accelerators and fellow entrepreneurs.
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