Do you have an innovative idea that everyone should know about? Do you want to grow your business? Do you need help to make the next step with your startup? Moreover, are you looking for funding? Present Your Startup will be in 2020 in Bonaire!
If you live in Bonaire and you have a scalable and innovative startup and you want to get to the next level, we can help you with our program! Apply until February 1st at our website. Continue reading for more information about our program.
About the program
You can apply filling the form at our website until February 1st. Afterwards, we will contact you for an intake through Skype to get to know more about you and your startup. For example, we will ask you questions like what stage is your startup at, if you have ever being funded, how many people are in the team, what are your goals, what do you want to achieve and what are your expectations from PYS program.
On February 7th, we will make a selection of the best applications and if you are shortlisted, we will invite you to participate at our Academy, which will be from the 17th until the 20th February. This “Prepare Your Startup Hotel” is an intensive training, with courses on different areas like business model, finance, pitching, legal aspects of a startup and marketing. During the week, you will also have time to practice what you have learned and of course, you will meet a lot of potential investors.
After the training week, we will select the best startups based on their drivers, business plan and how they developed in “Prepare Your Startup Hotel”. These finalists will be pitching at the finals of Present Your Startup Bonaire, which will take place on February 20th!
Finally, the winner of Present Your Startup Bonaire will be selected to pitch at our final event in New York or Curacao.
If you wish to apply, follow the next steps:
Apply filling the simple form clicking the button down until February 1st.
We will contact you for an intake through Skype.
On February 7th, we will select a limited number of entrepreneurs to participate at our academy. For the program “Prepare Your Startup Hotel” (Academy), the normal price is 25k USD, but our partner pays for most of it. Participants only have to pay 500 USD for a hotel (4 nights in a shared room incl breakfast). If you are from Bonaire, Curacao, Aruba, Sint Maarten, Saba and St Eustatius, you only have to pay 125 USD. NB: flights (if needed) are excluded.
Written by Claudia Flores Jimenez
claudia@innovate.today
Photos by Valerie Vallenduuk
