Business Accelerator Course

The Business Accelerator course is a comprehensive programme designed to empower startups, entrepreneurs, and inventors in bringing their innovations to market successfully. It emphasizes business skills, the crucial role of financing and effective communication, covering all aspects of entrepreneurship. As part of the Accelerator, attendees will culminate their training with a Go-to-Market Plan, detailing their company’s vision and objectives, using it as a strategic tool for project applications, positioning, and self-analysis. The mentorship from experienced entrepreneurs will provide insights at every stage of the entrepreneurial journey.

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Course Presentation

The business accelerator aims to provide startups, entrepreneurs or just inventors who want to put their inventions on the market with tools to give them 360º business skills. With this accelerator we want to cover everything from defining the problem to developing the solution, including areas such as what it means to be an entrepreneur. During the sessions, entrepreneurs will also have the chance to get to grips with parts of the company that they are not usually aware of, such as the business plan or financial plan. The accelerator also addresses financing, which is vital for startups and must be taken into consideration. To this end, the approach to communicating the idea and pitch communication is also part of this accelerator. In addition to all the training, accelerator participants will finish their training with a Go-to-Market Plan, where they will have detailed information about their company, its vision and objectives. The information contained here will be important for project applications, for positioning the company, or even for analyzing its own evolution. Along the accelerator several mentors and experienced entrepreneurs will pitch in and speak to the participants giving their insights about several stages of the entrepreneurial life.

The business accelerator is developed to give entrepreneurs, tools to go into the market, providing them with tools to tackle several situations that shall occur when trying to create a new business or company. Through 11 sessions the entrepreneurs shall receive a 360º training on how to develop their idea and create their company. During the sessions, entrepreneurs will also have the chance to get to develop documents that are vital for the new company, such as the business plan or financial plan. As of that, these are the 11 sessions or modules:

1 – Welcome Session

2 – Ideation

3 – Creating the Team

4 – Customer

5 – Product – IP Seminar

6 – Importance of the Go-to-Market Plan

7 – Financial Model

8 – Investment & Funding

9 – Enterpreneurial Life

10 – The Art of Pitching

11 – Innovators’ Journey

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Venue

Hybrid

Deep tech fields

Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Country

Portugal

Course language

English

Course certification

“Business Accelerator Course certified by UBImedical-University of Beira Interior”

Fee

Free course

Duration (hours)

95

Certificate provided

Yes

Skills addressed

communication, collaboration and creativity;
give live presentation;
entrepreneurship;
innovation processes;
business models;
business strategy concepts;
deliver a sales pitch;
analysing business operations;
market analysis;
intellectual property law; patents; rights;
marketing mix;
financial statements; managing budgets or finances;
funding methods;

Course format

Hybrid

Target group

Quality check

Approved

Dates

Starts:

Continuously open

Ends:

Application deadline:

Continuously open

Course provider

University of Beira Interior – UBImedical

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