#StartupBootcamp | Workshops for new entrepreneurs

The event took place on November 25 and 28, 2020.

StartupBootcamp event organized by Polish-Ukrainian Startup Bridge team

#StartupBootcamp was made for early-stage startups and young entrepreneurs who are already running their businesses and need to develop their ideas and services. ⁣

Our key goal was to provide them with hands-on training in high-impact entrepreneurship. During our #Bootcamp participants have developed creative capacity, entrepreneurial confidence, and acquired the necessary skills to build scalable startups that solve real problems.⁣

#StartupBootcamp was made up of two identical half-day workshops and four days of one2one individual meetings with our mentors in between.

StartupBootcamp registrations

We exceeded the startups’ expectations, as the webinar gained 81 registrations and 68 unique attendees.

StartupBootcamp mentoring sessions

Each participant may have had an individual one2one session with the mentor according to their business needs. We managed to achieve a total of 83 mentoring sessions, far exceeding the initially planned 50 meetings.

What the #StartupBootcamp workshops have covered:⁣

#StartupBootcamp participants worked hard and absorbed a huge amount of knowledge and tactical tools through a variety of workshops and sessions prepared specifically for them by our mentors. Also, attendees had also a chance to interact live in the meeting by using the chat.

Sebastian Goschorski - Polish-Ukrainian Startup Bridge mentor

Financial aspects – what should You look out for.⁣

Sebastian Goschorski talked us through key financial analysis and general financial documentation⁣ needed for a startup company. Also, gave some valuable tips for a great finance pitch.⁣

Łukasz Kowalik - Polish-Ukrainian Startup Bridge mentor

What are the key competences of a successful startup?⁣

Łukasz Kowalik shared not only the key needs for local and global innovation but also helped to understand finance and legal issues, investor’s language as well as their real needs.⁣

Roman Bieda - Polish-Ukrainian Startup Bridge expert

Legal aspects.⁣

Roman Bieda has conducted a speech on main legal areas to address, EU regulations specifics, setting up a company in EU/Poland, which every entrepreneur should know while running a startup.

Piotr Pągowski - Polish-Ukrainian Startup Bridge mentor

Investor relations – important messages.⁣

Piotr Pągowski shared with us his extraordinary experience on how to attract investor’s attention, the strong and weak spots of the projects, as well as how to build the big picture for investors.

Sylwester Pietrzyk - Polish-Ukrainian Startup Bridge mentor

The alchemy of an ideal pitch.⁣

In his speech, Sylwester Pietrzyk focused on refining startups’ public speaking as well as client presentation skills. He also gave us some valuable tips on the content of a projects’ pitch.

What do #StartupBootcamp participants say?