Starting your own business
Starting your own business

Starting your own business (RSS3.06) - Confirmed

The Startup Summer School gives you the chance to validate and shape your business idea in a practical and professional way. In this week you will get the help of professional startup coaches, experienced entrepreneurs and seed investors.

 

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General

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Do you want to know what it takes to be an entrepreneur? 
Or do you have an innovative business idea, but don’t know how to take it forward?

Join the Startup Summer School. During this one week program you will work together with other entrepreneurs on improving your business or business concept. We will give you a proven methodology for assessing and shaping your venture as well as plenty of time to discuss your idea with your peers, investors and experienced entrepreneurs. 

The Startup Summer School addresses all aspects of starting your own (tech)company. We believe in learning by doing. We expect you to bring your own business and get to action.

In this course you will: 

  1. find whether an entrepreneurial career is suited for you; 
  2. discover your own entrepreneurial skills, talent and ambition; 
  3. create and fine-tune a solid business plan; 
  4. learn about different methods and tools.

Starting date

01 July 2024, 9 am
Costs
€499
Educational method
On-site
Main Language
English
Sessions
01 July 2024, 9 am - 05 July 2024, 5 pm
Teacher(s)
F.F.M. Dams (Florine)
R.C.M. Groenendaal (Rob)
Unique code
RSS3.06

Factsheet

Type of education
Course
Entry requirements
See the requirements in cost and admission
Study load (ECTS)
2
Result
Certificate

Startdate: 01 July 2024, 9 am - 05 July 2024, 5 pm
ECTS credits: 2 ECTS. For more information see credits and certificate.

Course Programme

A sneak preview in the topics that will be covered during the courses: 

  • Becoming an entrepreneur: know what to expect, get in touch with your own strengths and weaknesses, learn what ‘living the dream’ actually looks like; 
  • Building a team that fuel and sustain your startup’s growth: the perfect team composition and team competencies, training, keeping people happy; 
  • Who is your customer: Learn how to track down, define and segment your customer segment and how to explore their needs; 
  • Understanding the problem: Are you problem oriented and trying to solve the problems of customers via your product or service? Or the other way around;
  • Master the lean startup method to effectively scale your business: learn about MVPs, validated learning, piloting and pivoting; 
  • Build a product that your customers love: due diligence, mapping vs. competing products/services, IP protection, technology enhancement or development, prototyping, and industrialization; 
  • Create your own Business model Canvas: turn an idea into a cash cow, build a sustainable business case; 
  • Understand your market: opportunity assessment, USPs, target markets, competitive positioning, customer discovery and validation; 
  • Get your product to the market: find your launching customer, design your go-to-market strategy, choose distribution channels; 
  • Get noticed: free publicity, marketing, social media strategy;
  • Make a Pitch that impresses customers and investors; 
  • Get Funded: learn about seed money, Business Angel networks and crowdfunding. 

After the Startup Summer School, you will be able to decide whether a career as an entrepreneur is right for you. And if so, you will have gained the right tools, insights and skills to proceed.

  • Weekly schedule and social events

    The weekly programme of Radboud Summer School is carefully designed for the best experience. On this page you will find the timetables and social events.

Watch what our participants say about their experience!

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Course list

Overview courses and disciplines

Course list
Management, politics & law

Economy, management and organisation

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Rob Groenendaal

Rob Groenendaal 

Hi, my name is Rob and I’m a business coach at Mercator Launch. As a former entrepreneur, I will help you with: 
• Team & Entrepreneur
• Market 
• Funding strategy Florine Dams Coordinator, Business coach & Event manager

Florine Dams

Florine Dams

Hey, my name is Florine! I am Coordinator, Business coach & Event manager at Mercator Launch. I have a background in marketing and my areas of expertise are: 
• Business modelling 
• Validation & testing business ideas 
• Marketing & event management

The application deadline has passed, applying is no longer possible

 

Costs

  • Regular: €499 (application deadline 31st of May)

Includes: your course, coffee and tea during breaks, a warm lunch every day, Official Opening, Official Closing (with some drinks and snacks). 

Excludes: transport, accommodation, social events and other costs.  

Discounts and Scholarships

Admission

Level of participant: 

  • Advance Bachelor
  • Bachelor
  • Master
  • PhD
  • Postdoc

Young professionals and other participants can be allowed in depending on available spots and motivation.

Admission requirements: The following items are due on or before the application deadline. Submissions received after the deadline will be waitlisted, subject to space availability. 

  • Personal mission statement (max 1 page): Clarity about your personal mission, aspirations and propensity for risk will have an enormous influence on the nature of your entrepreneurial vision, as well as your ability to realize it. This statement should set out what you would like to achieve and why you would like to achieve this. Remember, this is your PERSONAL mission statement, and will be uniquely special – there are no right or wrong answers. The clearer, and more honest, you are about it, the better equipped you will be to contemplate the life of an entrepreneur.
  • Description of business idea (max 250 word) or pitchdeck.

Admission documents: 

  • Motivation letter | Personal mission statement (max 1 page). 
  • Description of business idea (max 250 word) or pitchdeck.

Cannot join us this year? 

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