The Everis Foundation continues with its promotion of entrepreneurship. Recently, he just launched his online program Startup Sprint, which is free and is open to anyone with an incipient technology-based project.
The purpose is to accompany entrepreneurs so that their projects are built on a solid foundation that allows them to be launched on the market through virtual group sessions, thematic seminars, mentoring, face-to-face and virtual visualization sessions, as well as networking and individualized support hand in hand of experts and successful entrepreneurs.
Startup Sprint will begin on October 25 and participation is free upon registration. It is only necessary to have one idea or project in incipient phase based on technological innovation with social impact.
Four stages
Throughout the program, divided into four stages, participants will learn about tools and methodologies so that they can define or improve their projects and business models, they will receive basic notions of financial management and communication and will be accompanied by experts and successful entrepreneurs:
- Stage 1: From idea to click. Virtual group sessions to find out how to start the project (October 25).
- Stage 2: The click. Personalized guide with thematic seminars and mentoring per project (November 10).
- Stage 3: Show up. In-person and virtual sessions of visualization and networking among the participants (February 2022).
- Step 4: Open innovation. Individualized monitoring of projects by experts (February 2022).
For Karla Alarcón, general director of the Everis Foundation, «At the foundation we have been promoting technological entrepreneurship with social impact for 20 years through our eAwards for constituted projects and with a minimum viable product. Now we are launching Startup Sprint to also support those people who have an idea or a project in an incipient phase, to accompany and inspire them in their process of going to market. We believe in the talent of these creative and brave people with an ‘entrepreneurial gene’ to achieve together a positive change in society ».
