Startup Essentials is the ultimate startup experience. We care about one thing: startups only matter if they make money from real customers. Participants in Startup Essentials Bootcamp will create new startups, issue and sell shares, find investors and take the company to the public markets.
As a participant, in three days you will:
- Validate your business model
- Buy and sell startup's shares
- Grow your startup
- Take your startup to the IPO
23. A Very Real Entrepreneurship Simulation
$0 – Customer/Problem – Solutions/$ales – IPO
24. Facilitators
Jefrey Bulla
- Electrical Engineer, Universidad Distrital Francisco Jose de Caldas Bogotá, Colombia
- Has launched multiple experimentos/startups in Colombia & USA
- Toro Labs, founder & CEO (helping companies build great products) in
USA & Colombia)
- Facilitator & mentor with Startup Essentials
- Lean Startup & Customer Development Evangelist in LatAm
Ury Sarabia
- Computer Engineer, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de
Monterrey - Guadalajara, Mexico
- Has launched multiple experiments/startups in Mexico & Chile
- Facilitator & mentor with Startup Essentials
- Lean Startup & Customer Development Evangelist in LatAm
- Founder of Lean Startups LatAm Community
- Co-Founder of Emprendedores Anónimos #EEAA
29. ~60% of the teams validated their growth model
95% of the teams validated their value proposition with money
Total: 200+ participants between 18-55 years old, teams with 4 to 9 participants
30. ~60% of the teams validated their growth model
95% of the teams validated their value proposition with money
Total: 200+ participants between 18-55 years old, teams with 4 to 9 participants
31. 2 Visits
4 Bootcamps
34 Startups
16 Days of Hard Work
+200 Entrepreneurs
9 Seed Capitals Awarded (so far…)
33. ~USD $ 500,000
In Real Sales to Real Customers
In Letters of Intent, Wire Transfers, Checks or Cash from Real Customers
34. Some of the Startups
Created During
The Bootcamp
#SECoquimbo…
36. Real Sales:
- In 4.5 days:
10 Paying Customers/Users
- In day 6 (1 day after the bootcamp ended):
450 Users Acquired by Closing
a Recurrent Deal With a Whole
Neighborhood, aprox:
~USD$ 13000
(Growth Model Validated)
40. First Sale + Service Delivered: USD$ 60
(check)
- A real job was created at the moment the team was giving their
final presentation. The secretary hired was the best performing one
through their head hunting process. The best one got her job
contract signed.
43. Satisfied Customers
Net Promoter Score (NPS)
“98% of our Customers Say They
Recommend Us To Their Contacts
Or Other Customers”
”Throughout my life, I’ve had 2 big philosophy life changing milestones and
Startup Essentials is 1 of them… …I am 41 years old, 31 as entrepreneur.
This was what I was missing. Nothing can stop me now.” – Héctor Cancino
http://youtu.be/57Dd_9D-WqM
”I didn’t know this program was funded by Corfo (a Chilean Government Institution),
I am really happy with how my taxes are being spent." – Roger Nuñez
http://youtu.be/-h-y0ZUsT_4
45. TV
VIDEO BLOG 24Horas.cl: The Sea of Entrepreneurship (Nov. ’13)
http://www.24horas.cl/regiones/coquimbo/coquimbo-el-mar-del-emprendimiento-949189
Alternate Source: http://youtu.be/UBA3OlXYTqQ