A marvelous opportunity: Start-ups Coaching Sessions: Business Partnership Action

• October 5, 2023

During the upcoming period, RAISE, an EU-funded project committed to promoting the growth and scaling of startups across Europe, will be hosting four coaching sessions for startups.

The four coaching sessions (free of charge) aim to provide valuable insights and practical solutions for European start-ups to improve their business models and partnerships. The sessions will offer personalised coaching and interactive learning activities to help participants understand key concepts and develop their skills. The four  Workshops will address the following 4 topics: The Lean Canvas, The Unique Value Propositions Canvas, Approaching risk capital investors, and How to master your pitch.

Event details

The Region Alliance for Interconnected Startup Ecosystems – RAISE – project aims at developing a new and sustainable integrated support framework to foster startup growth and scale-up across Europe. It targets companies that have already achieved first results, possibly supported by regional programmes, and are now aiming to grow. In this framework, the project partners are required to implement several pilot actions, among which there are training, mentoring, and networking sessions that will help startup promoters to get in contact with the appropriate mentors and trainers who can help them gain access to their target markets.

Objective: The coaching session aims to provide valuable insights and practical solutions for start-ups to improve their business models and partnerships. The session will offer personalised coaching and interactive learning activities to help participants understand key concepts and develop their skills.

Target Audience: The coaching session is designed for start-up founders and representatives who are looking to enhance their understanding of business partnership actions.

Approach: The coaching will revolve around a total of 4 online workshops of 90 minutes each. The structure of each workshop will be a sum of a theoretical session and a practical one.

Workshops (free of charge):

• October 18, Workshop 1- The Lean Canvas
  One of the main failures for early-stage startups is that there is no market needs for the products/services they are developing. Thus to avoid falling into this statistic, it is important for early-stage startups to explore the Lean Canvas as a strategic planning tool.
  
• November 6, Workshop 2 – The Unique Value Propositions Canvas
  The first goal in adopting the Lean Canvas is to reach the Problem-solution fit which is basically when a startup is developing a solution for a specific need(s) for the customers. In order to reach this goal, startups need to use the UVP as a strategic tool.
  
• November 21, Workshop 3 – Approaching risk capital investors
  High-growth early-stage startups need money to scale and boost their activities. It is important that the founders understand which are the kind of investors in the market and which is the best way to approach them.
  
• December 5, Workshop 4 – How to master your pitch
  The first approach to investors is the key to increasing the odds of getting the funds. Thus, preparing a great pitch is crucial to achieve this first step.

Coach: Lorenzo Valeriani, Senior project manager and start-ups coach at META Group.

For over 25 years, META Group has driven knowledge from idea to market by coaching researchers, and entrepreneurs, investing in promising opportunities and advising public and private organisations on innovation strategies. They have plenty of experience investing in high-growth companies across Europe, and helping Institutions, governments, regions and cities around the world foster more of them.

Built by entrepreneurs, for entrepreneurs, META Group has a unique edge in first-hand all stages of the entrepreneurial life cycle and they have designed and implemented innovation policies at local, national, and international level.

META operates in three areas:

• META Investment: investing in high-growth startups across Europe.
• META Academy: nurturing and guiding young people, entrepreneurs & scientists as they transform ideas into high-growth startups​.
• META Advisory​: policy advice on stimulating innovation and startups to clients as diverse as individual cities and the European Commission.

For more info and registration click here.