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Emerge Education: ACC ELE RAT ORP ROG RAM ME
Emerge Education: ACC ELE RAT ORP ROG RAM ME
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Emerge Education gives you what you need most: access to customers.
Emerge Education is built to blast these obstacles away. We are customerfocused in everything we do. We have an army of beta testers ready to tear apart your product on a regular build, measure, learn cycle recruited from a deep network of first class primary, secondary and higher education institutions. On top of this, we put our founders through intensive startup coaching with experts in the field and foster a community of best-in-class educators, entrepreneurs, investors and professionals ready to invest their cash, time and invaluable intellectual capital in our startups. We guarantee that you will leave our programme with at least these three things: Cyclical product testing with real potential customers. Supercharging with all relevant expertise. Intensive interaction with interested investors.
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Relevant
There is endless information available telling you how to take a startup from idea generation to IPO. You could spend 12 hours a day for three months trying to take it all in and you would barely make a dent. To be productive, you need to cut your information intake right down to what is relevant. Our accelerator programme is designed to provide everything our startups need and no more.
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Customer focused
What we are looking to drive is an increase in the value our startups demonstrate to their customers. These are the people who provide the resources which sustain a business. Without these, a business can only fail. For this reason, our focus is always centred on the customer.
We understand that we do not know our startups as well as our startups do. Our startups arent run by children, they are run by people who have taken a lot of risk and personal responsibility to make the change they want to see in the world. We respect the discretion of each of our startups. We make available all of our assets and let our startups try everything, take as much as they like and leave what they dont.
Our accelerator programme has four principal elements The On Ramp, Build Measure Learn, the Pitch Ramp and Demo Day. These elements differ in their substance, time allocation and intensity but we assign equal importance to each. You can find out more about each these elements below and in the pages that follow.
The On Ramp
The On Ramp is the first ten days at Emerge Venture Lab. In this time we take you from zero to a hundred and more. We give you everything weve got. Detailed coaching in lean startup methodology and productivity. Access to our army of beta testers, practice-leading educators, on-the-money industry experts and battle-hardened entrepreneur mentors.
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Come off the On Ramp and youre into the Build Measure Learn phase. We encourage our startups to go through as many Build Measure Learn iterations as they can pack into this eight week stretch. With input from all our intellectual assets, this phase will make sure your product is powerful, tight and customer relevant.
This is the time to take the rough power of your product and polish it up for presentation to potential investors. Three weeks packed with pitch coaching and practice, practice, practice.
Demo Day
The day where all the detailed thinking, relentless creation and long nights come together. We put you in front of a packed crowd of the most sought-after angel and VC investors around. Get it right and take your startup to the next level.
Emerge breakfast Settle into the space over the course of the morning with warm toast and tea.
Welcome address The EVL team welcomes the cohort and sets the tone for the weeks to come.
Get comfortable Settle into the space, grab coffee with the Emerge team and use the time to tick off any last bits of admin to allow your On Ramp to go smoothly.
Cohort mingle A couple of drinks and a few bits to eat back at the lab. Get to know Emerge and the cohort a little better. Wind things up early enough to hit the next day running. Its going to be a long one.
Startup school A rigorous refresher of all the newest thinking in startup methodology. Business modelling Startup road map MVP and Agile Dev
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Learn to Listen: Mindfulness Guided instruction in mindfulness. Shorter mindfulness sessions (marked MFN) will be offered every morning.
The Mom Test How to talk to customers and learn if your business is a good idea when everyone in lying to you.
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Business Development Brush up on your biz dev and adopt a thorough approach to the generation of growth opportunities
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Return on Education Adopt robust metrics and a slick reporting system to track the scale and quality of your social impact.
How to run a beta test Work out how to get the most out of high value time when your product is in the hands of your users. We bring you all the latest wisdom from beta testing tech product together with some specific guidance on adopting the right approach in education institutions.
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MFN Breakdown breakfast Start the day and the week with a breakdown of the education market identifying the biggest opportunities in education today Mentor day preparation Get ready for two days of intensive mentor interaction. Line up your facts, identify your needs and structure your time to make sure you get all the value you can out of the mentor community. Meet the educators Meet some of the most tech-savvy and innovation hungry educators in the UK. The educators will slice and dice the pedagogy in your product.
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Mentor day
Education entrepreneur mingle Take a step back from the intensity of the mentor day, grab a drink and get to know the education entrepreneurs from the community a little better.
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Mentor day
Industry expert mingle An opportunity to make human connections with people who know the education industry better than anybody.
MFN
Meeting investors How to secure and succeed in meetings with the angel and VC investors who may be the difference between flourishing and failure.
Closing rounds Investment rounds can be a slog. Pick up tips and tricks for making yours as smooth as possible.
Investor mingle Meet with real, live angels and VCs and bounce everything picked up in the first two weeks off their gilded heads
Intern recruitment party Recruit part time help from a body of carefully selected young talent super keen to take their own first steps in the social startup world
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Programme OKRs Sit down with your team and work out your Objectives and Key Results for the programme. Set the framework for the next 11 weeks of seriously hard work.
Founder story and cohort party Pack up and sit back as we get in another battle-hardened founder to share their experiences with the cohort. Drinks and takeout on the Lab.
In the eight week Build Measure Learn stretch we encourage our startups to get through as many Build Measure Learn iterations as possible to ensure the problems they solve are real, all assumptions are validated, and the product is structured to provide an effective, customer ready solution.
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DEMO DAY
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