Schedule
In just 5 days onsite, we help your team achieve 5 critical startup milestones: how to file an initial patent, incorporate your company with a sensible cap table, build your CRM, map your funding journey, and plan your tech-into-product milestones. We start with light online prep to get your team ready, and we follow up with an online check-in series to support your team momentum.
PREP
August 20
15:00—17:00 CET
Team orientation
In an online call, we review the onsite program agenda, explain key team preparation items due, and discuss any questions you have beforehand to get your team ready.
Online
Dial-in details will be sent in advance prior by email.
MONDAY
September 8
9:00—20:00 CET
File your patent
We help you identify your deep tech strategic advantage, work through the tough questions on intellectual property, and translate that into a US provisional patent application. We end the day with a group welcome dinner!
Locations
9:00—12:00 ETH AI Center tentative (📍 map pin)
13:00—17:00 Team space (📍 map pin)
17:30—20:00 Group dinner (📍 map pin)
TUESDAY
September 9
9:00—17:00 CET
Incorporate your startup
We help you submit incorporation papers and build a cap table, which is an important founding document that shows the equity ownership of a company for cofounders, investors, employees, and other stakeholders.
Locations
9:00—12:00 Team space (📍 map pin)
13:30—17:00 Tech company (📍 map pin)
WEDNESDAY
September 10
9:00—17:00 CET
Build Your CRM
CRM stands for Customer Relationship Management. We work with your team to build an initial CRM strategy and target list to help your team anticipate and manage customer knowledge throughout the customer lifecycle.
Locations
9:00—12:00 Team space (📍 map pin)
13:30—17:00 Team space (📍 map pin)
THURSDAY
September 11
9:00—17:00 CET
Define a Funding Journey
We help your team define which kinds of funding exist for your idea, plot the next set of investor conversations, and prepare what you need to be truly investable.
Locations
9:00—12:00 Team space (📍 map pin)
13:30—17:00 Team space (📍 map pin)
FRIDAY
September 12
9:00—17:00 CET
Map Product Milestones
Before your team rushes to build the proverbial MVP (minimum viable prototype), we help you understand tech-into-product thinking and how to “productize” and stage delivery milestones appropriate to deep tech.
Locations
9:00—12:00 Downtown (📍 map pin)
13:30—17:00 Team space (📍 map pin)
POST WORK
Times to be determined
Team Follow Up
We will organize regular touch points after the program from October through late December to continue your team’s momentum and activities.
Online
Dial-in details will be sent in advance by email.
All program instruction is in English. Teams may switch to their preferred language during group exercises.