Now Sprint Accellerator – Stage-Co Masters Startup Academy

For Startups

What ever stage you are or vertical, we will accelerate you!

About Mentors

We only have domain specialists or startup founders who went through a first successful round!

For Investors

We have already a great team of investors but you can still join!

Now Sprint! Accelerator Online is Free until end of 2021. Pricing on demand for corporates and at your premise.

Patrick Bosteels, co-founder and Program Manager Now Sprint! Accelerator. Patrick has 35 years of bootstrapping in his backpack after he finished Art School as Filmmaker and Photographer in Gent, Belgium. He moved to Türkiye in 2013 and cofounded Stage-Co with his partner and wife Neşen Yücel. Together they organised and facilitated numerous Startup Weekends, Hackathons, Bootcamps and Acceleration program, including on-demand programs for corporates. They use the SDGs as their guidance and focus on East Europe, Balkans, Africa and Central Asia. In 2019 they opened Urla Coworking and in March 2020 announced the start of Now Sprint! Accelerator.

Alumni May, 2020 Program

Why Choose our PROGRAM?

Validate - Build - Go and Conquer

Now Sprint! Accelerator Program Online takes 1-month with intensive training trough workshops, guidance by the excellent Now Sprint! mentors ending in an online Demo Day reaching over 100 investors. Now Sprint! Accelerator prepared 8 workshops, 2 per week at the end of the day online. We will go from an idea to a product ready to pitch to an investor. using a hands-on program that includes Design Thinking, Lean Startup, Business Model Canvas and Customer Development. You have already an MVP or even a fresh startup? We will get you to the next level. We have the same program for Corporates who believe in Innovation and intrapreneurship! Get in contact with us for a bespoke program, on-premise or online. What makes Now Sprint! Accelerator a top Pre-Accelerator in the region? And unique at the same time:

No equity asked

Do not waste equity on programs unless you have traction and a serious investment on the table. Do not give up ownership at the start. An investor should invest in your next round based on value for value and what you need is money and/or a sales network.

We provide horizontal programs and vertical programs

At whatever stage you are, or whatever tech or market, we can support you in detecting the missing elements and work on them with our instructors and mentors.

Company Startup Program

For companies, we evaluate whether you can join a regular program or we create a bespoke program matching the company needs.

Investors in-house

We have investor partners on board but as we know the Angel and VC ecosystem very good we can bring you in contact with the best match.

Global Accelerator Programs

Once you go through our Pre-Accelerator program we will select the startups with great progress and connect them to Global Accelerator Programs in Europe or the US. No promises of course as the international level is very high, so you really need to excel.

● The selection is based on your entrepreneurial drive, your collaboration with your team members, creativity and knowledge of your product or service. Involving 1 or more SDG topics is a must.

Stage-co MAsters Team

PROGRAM DETAILS

Just like a startup, we need to be agile and responsive!

Now Sprint! Accelerator Program:

We plan to give 2 workshops per week after business hours. Each workshop will take a maximum of 3 hours in the most interactive way possible. All workshops will be given in English and you can expect homework.

Program 1st of February, 8 Workshops in 4 weeks starting at 6 pm Istanbul Time

Program dates: February 1st, 3rd, 8th, 10th, 15th, 17th, 22nd, 24th, and Demo Day March 5th.

Demo Day: 2nd Saturday after the last workshop

Where? Online, Google Meet

Program Manager: Startup Akademi Stage-Co Masters: Patrick Bosteels

Program Overview:

Week 1 A Design Thinking. Define your researched problem.

Week 1 B Pitch Problem and Market. Discuss

Week 2 A Define your Value Proposition

Week 2 B Finalise Business Model Canvas. Share and Discuss

Week 3 A Customer Development

Week 3 B MVP. Share and Discuss

Week 4 A Financial Plan

Week 4 B Create your Pitch Deck

Demoday 2nd Saturday after the last workshop

Mentors:

Mentors are involved face to face or online based on the needs we define together. They can join at any stage in the program after the 2nd week.

Our Values

Focus on Women entrepreneurship
The selection is based on your entrepreneurial drive, your collaboration with your team members, creativity and knowledge of your product or service.

Pricing

Free until the end of 2021