Deadline: Ongoing
Are you a start-up or SME entrepreneur with an innovative idea (product and/or service), and would you like to enter an emerging market? Then apply for the five month Impact Booster Program that will start in February 2016.
The program includes a unique three month boostcamp, an on location, real time, real experience validation phase, which accelerates market insights and implementation towards a successful company.
Both entrepreneurs from the Netherlands as well as from emerging economies can join the program.
iMPACT Booster works with the best entrepreneurs and brings out the most disruptive innovations to radically improve the agricultural sector in emerging economies to impact the lives of thousands living at the base of the pyramid (BoP)
Program Stages
Get ready (1 month, The Netherlands): The Get Ready phase will prepare the participants for market validation of their business in the local context. This intensive month of interactive sessions and trainings will take place in the Netherlands and contains training on Business and Distribution Models, Financial Modelling, Lean Start-up, Stakeholder Management & Partnerships et cetera.
Validation (3 months, local context): The Validation phase is a tailor-made program in the local context to validate all assumptions in participants business plan and prepare his market entry. During three months, the participant will receive intensive hands-on support (1.5 day/week) from a local business acceleration expert of ICCO, Woord en Daad and our trusted partners.
Pitch (1 month, The Netherlands): The Pitch phase is the final part of the Accelerator Program and prepares you for the Demo Day by participating in training and interactive sessions (Crowd Funding and Impact Visualization, Investor Propositions, Pitching, Negotiating et cetera) and by extensively practicing them pitch among experts, mentors, investors and their peers who give their feedback.
Selection Criteria
- Viability and scalability of the business model
- Impact on local society (economic, ecological and social)
- Innovation of agricultural sector
- Experience, balance and commitment of the team
- Quality of approach
How to Apply
Interested applicants can apply via given website.
For more information, please visit Impact Booster.
