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Tampere Pre-startup Program

Tampere pre-startup program for starting entrepreneurs and startup teams in Tampere region! The programme is focused on understanding customers' needs, clarifying the business concept and building readiness to make a decision: "Shall I/we establish our company and how"

After the program you will have a clear vision of what to do next. Join the Tampere Pre-startup Program and embark on a journey of innovation and entrepreneurship. Explore your potential to create meaningful impact.

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What is Tampere pre-startup program?

Welcome to our pre-startup program designed exclusively for starting entrepreneurs and startup teams! Based on our global experience, we understand that generic training and coaching may not always cater to the unique needs and challenges faced by each startup.

Therefore, we have crafted a co-creation program that fosters collaboration among participating experts, other teams and relevant stakeholders in Tampere startup landscape. We focus on understanding customers actual needs, building value-proposition and MVP that are needed for sales and investment readiness and rely on essential components of building success ventures.

Drawing upon our global expertise, we believe that the journey to building a successful startup is enriched through shared experiences, diverse perspectives, and collective problem-solving. Our program provides a dynamic platform where innovative ideas are cultivated, refined, and transformed into viable business case.

Tampere pre-startup program has been produced since 2022 and is running for the 5th time during the Spring 2024. Join us on this transformative journey as we co-create the future of entrepreneurship together. Let's turn ideas into action and aspirations into achievements. Welcome to the pre-startup program where collaboration is the key to success!

With love,

From Demola Global

Demola Global is an international innovation management and venture company. Demola Global helps businesses to explore future impacts and driving forces to build future-proof and actionable growth and commercialisation strategies.

Demola Global’s unique edge is our work with co-creation teams. We build global teams of the most talented and motivated university students to explore global markets, consumer behaviour and change-drivers. Unlike others, the insights from continuous future project chains are combined with our expert know-how to create visions of the future, IPR, and competitive advantage.

We use the intelligence, know-how, and extensive networks to create competitive advantage for our startup teams that participate in our programmes. Since 2011, we have co-created with over 6000 teams, worked with more than 2500 companies and supported creation of over 800 startups.

Tampere is the home where Demola journey started and with City of Tampere we want to bring our experience available for new entrepreneurs and startup teams.

Schedule

The program will have 3 bootcamps with bi-weekly meetups in between. All bootcamps and meetings take place at Tampere innovation and startup house Platform6 (Åkerlundinkatu 8, Tampere).

As a part of the program, you will be introduced to other services and communities for entrepreneurs, so you will be able to further develop yourself and have continuation paths when the program ends!

Application period - until 26.4.

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Bootcamp 1 - 16.-17.5.
(both days 14:00 - 19:00 at Platform6)

Introductions, (re)defining problem statements and opportunities
Understanding changing customer needs, preferences, and values
Benchmarking state of the art examples around the world

Bootcamp 2 - 27.-28.5.
(both days 14:00 - 19:00 at Platform6)

Building winning team
Team agreements and IPR
Problem validation, solution ideas and concept development
MVPs

Bootcamp 3 - 12.-13.6.
(both days 14:00 - 19:00 at Platform6)

Business models and financing
Sales and customer development
Refining value-propositions and business cases
Action planning

Coaches

Ville Kairamo

Ville has experience in leading innovation and startup programs in Europe, Africa, and Asia, and has an extensive experience on business development with corporates and startups and vast global networks.

Joonas Kemppainen

Joonas has been working with innovations and startups for the past 10 years and is an ex-startup entrepreneur. He is specialized in user experience and building MVPs.