Growth Academy, 'Discovering the startup world'
Build holistic understanding from the journey of startups’ development along with the service ecosystems that support this journey by connecting experience based and globally recognized methods, tools and knowledge from the different stages in a systematic manner. Our startup entrepreneurship training curriculum is targeted at new entrepreneurs, startups, educators and startup ecosystem support organization personnel.
Growth Academy's startup entrepreneurship education curriculum takes a deep dive to discover the startup world through the startup development phases framework. The first two modules I & IB focus on describing the holistic big picture about the startups, their related items and their journey as a whole, and the following three modules focus on each of the key parts of this journey, from formation to validation and to scaling.
Availability And Licensing
Growth Academy for business builders, startup trainers & mentors and ecosystem developers is available as an online course via our eLearning platform. It is build on top of our open standard innovation entrepreneurship curriculum.
In addition, Startup Commons provide training of trainers program and certifications for Support Providers via independent Growth Academy Coach certifications and Support Provider Organization certificates, as well as provide full licensing to Growth Academy Operators interested to become local partners and coordinators for Growth Academy program in their ecosystems.
Startup Commons and certified trainers are also available to provide Growth Academy for Business Builders or new trainers as On-Site training packages to be provided in cooperation with local support organizations.
Learn more about becoming a Growth Academy provider in your ecosystem.
In addition, Startup Commons provide training of trainers program and certifications for Support Providers via independent Growth Academy Coach certifications and Support Provider Organization certificates, as well as provide full licensing to Growth Academy Operators interested to become local partners and coordinators for Growth Academy program in their ecosystems.
Startup Commons and certified trainers are also available to provide Growth Academy for Business Builders or new trainers as On-Site training packages to be provided in cooperation with local support organizations.
Learn more about becoming a Growth Academy provider in your ecosystem.
Testimonials
"One of the most popular tracks of the Nokia Bridge program in Finland was the start-up program that provided introduction to people aiming to become entrepreneurs. Objective of the start-up track was to provide a very pragmatic, concrete and realistic input and guidance. Growth Academy introductory module was selected due extensive experience and ability to describe the content in an engaging fashion. The program was well received by the participants and met / exceeded our expectations in terms of content."
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Growth Academy Modules
Module I
Training target To give an overview of startups, startup development phases and startup ecosystems as the “factory” (or funnel). Communicate from various stakeholders’ perspective for a holistic view: entrepreneurs’, team members’ (team build vs. joining a team), investors’, governments’, and operative support organizations’. To help shine a light on what are the most important activities to focus on from each of these perspectives at each of the development phases. |
Module IB
Training target & audience This extra module is targeted specifically for those that are working closely or associated with new entrepreneurship and startups, in a direct operative support function or as part of a wider role within the startup or innovation ecosystem —from teachers, advisors and mentors and other supporting roles to economic development agents designing funding instruments or related policies, attracting foreign direct investments or developing and managing support organizations or activities. The purpose of this training is to understand innovation and startups in a global and local context, along with targets, methods and models for startup services and broader ecosystem development. |
Module II
Training target To help understand how to effectively build teams and what tools to use. How and where to identify potential team members and how to communicate to work on building the shared mission and vision. How to find best potential markets to go after and ideas to work with. Aim at BIG visions and help align interest. Finding personal motivations and drivers and ultimately confirming the commitment to capture the initial value with a shareholders agreement (SHA). |
Module III
Training target To understand the importance of validation, the methods that can be used, and how to build the right KPI’s. What is the change in mindset that needs to happen between the previous stage and this phase? Understanding the benefit of MVP thinking, prioritization framework and tools that can be used for these. While the focus here is on validating the product/service, this is also part of validating the team’s commitments. Finding enough customers to be able to validate is enough. Learning to learn. Focus on passing through this phase fast. Understanding the funding opportunities before and after launch. |
Module IV
Training target To understand the methods for growing an organization, learning to build processes, validating them and building teams. To delegate and get past managing to make it possible to scale. How to adjust KPI’s. What is the change in mindset that needs to happen between the previous stage and this phase. Strategies of cost effective internationalization. Benefits of working with big customers. Setting yourself for exit. |
Benefits
With holistic approach from two different perspectives; business creators and support providers - Growth Academy focuses on building a 360 degree understanding about startups business creation journey through various perspectives and connects all relevant and familiar startup related topics with links to keywords, resources and tools for further self learning and to turn theory into action.
The training curriculum's target is to increase business creation, volume of entrepreneurship and likelihood of startup success. It focuses on the acquisition of knowledge about the startups’ development journey to remove or reduce the highest “universal risks”, as well as to educate about optimal methods and structures for startups that are both strong and flexible to sustain failures at various levels.
Most importantly, the goal is to provide reasoning and to connect with other sources and data that support the knowledge and views provided.
The training curriculum's target is to increase business creation, volume of entrepreneurship and likelihood of startup success. It focuses on the acquisition of knowledge about the startups’ development journey to remove or reduce the highest “universal risks”, as well as to educate about optimal methods and structures for startups that are both strong and flexible to sustain failures at various levels.
Most importantly, the goal is to provide reasoning and to connect with other sources and data that support the knowledge and views provided.
On-Site Growth Academy Training By Startup Commons
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Background
The knowledge shared via these trainings is based on more than twenty years of international serial entrepreneurship experience with success and failures in various business verticals, combined with more than ten years of parallel experience on startup advisory with over a thousand new entrepreneurs and developing support services, funding instruments and related policies in a local, regional and global context.
By combining and refining personal learnings & experiences from past and current times, together with deep global research and discussions on related methodologies, studies, and statistics, as well as learnings from various respected international serial entrepreneurs and experts in specific methodologies, we have identified and validated most relevant patterns, factors and commonalities for building startup success by design. From bottom up, top down, side to side and in the middle perspectives. All of this while taking into account and recognizing regional, historical and cultural factors that have an impact on success factors in different regions.
The approach and process to document this knowledge is based on visualizing the top level process from nothing to success from the startup journey’s perspective (i.e. not in terms of funding rounds), and on communicating the most relevant items and clearly specifying all related key terminology in order to connect innovation and organizational growth processes with a focus on universal key factors. From this holistic viewpoint we then further develop it by breaking it up into logical sub-segments and processes, each with their own clear start and finish points that help connect and outline all relevant knowledge and concepts.
By combining and refining personal learnings & experiences from past and current times, together with deep global research and discussions on related methodologies, studies, and statistics, as well as learnings from various respected international serial entrepreneurs and experts in specific methodologies, we have identified and validated most relevant patterns, factors and commonalities for building startup success by design. From bottom up, top down, side to side and in the middle perspectives. All of this while taking into account and recognizing regional, historical and cultural factors that have an impact on success factors in different regions.
The approach and process to document this knowledge is based on visualizing the top level process from nothing to success from the startup journey’s perspective (i.e. not in terms of funding rounds), and on communicating the most relevant items and clearly specifying all related key terminology in order to connect innovation and organizational growth processes with a focus on universal key factors. From this holistic viewpoint we then further develop it by breaking it up into logical sub-segments and processes, each with their own clear start and finish points that help connect and outline all relevant knowledge and concepts.