
Summer Entrepreneurship Program (SEP)
The SEP helps entrepreneurial talents to develop and elaborate their own startup ideas: finding co-founders, identifying trends and problems, finding and building solutions, and pitching in front of Venture Capitalists (VCs) and business angels. On Demo Day, the talents and teams will present and pitch their vision in front of an audience and a jury to win €5,000 prize money.
Target Group
We are looking for talents that strive to become entrepreneurs and tackle the largest problems of our time. We are especially looking forward to working with:
- Technologists
- Entrepreneurial-driven generalist/business person
- Industry experts
- Other (e.g. design)
Value Proposition
During the program, you will
- Connect with tech and business talents and potential co-founders
- Gain valuable insights into trends, technologies, and sustainability
- Identify and validate significant problem opportunities and solutions,
- Develop landing pages, prototypes and an MVPs,
- Receive mentorship and coaching, and
- Meet the Vali network, including students and alumni of ESMT.
Highlights
- Participation is free
- Pitch your idea in front of an expert and investor jury
- The winning team wins prize money and a spot at the ESMT Demo Day
Program
Program
SEP Past Events
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Events (examples)
- Opportunity and Trend recognition, Mega Trends
- Sustainability and SDG
- Agile Work in Teams
- How to talk to customers
- How to develop an MVP
- No-Code Hackathon
- Pitching
- Business Angel investment
- VC funding