How to design a curriculum for your startup by Andrea Barrica with 500 Startups

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/// Designing a Strong Curriculum
with Andrea Barrica, Venture Partner

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/// Questions To Ask
Stage of the company?
Accelerator VS. incubator?
Is this a “doing” or “learning” program?
General or specific industries?
One point of contact VS. general mentors?
What does success look like at the end of my program?

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/// Keys to Great Accelerator
1) Quality and Curation
1) Community
1) Iterate, Iterate, Iterate

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/// Quality and Curation
Activity: Turn to your partner and
present your curriculum and how you
have curated it for top quality and
specifically for your audience.

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/// Community
Discussion Topic: Why is building
community important for an
accelerator?

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1) “Batch” sizing
2) Social Media + self-organization
3) Some staff support just in beginning
Bonding = great NPS scores & future deal flow!
Community

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/// Iterate, Iterate, Iterate

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/// Iterate, Iterate, Iterate

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/// Iterate, Iterate, Iterate
Some actual Mid-Batch feedback
from B14 co’s:

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/// Iterate, Iterate, Iterate
“The mentor network has very little experience in with
the medical market. It would be great to be able to tap
into existing relationships and get more help
understanding the sales cycles in this market.”
- B14 founder in Digital Health track

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/// Iterate, Iterate, Iterate
“I would like to get very specific with developing a
fund-raising plan and working on all the key steps to
execute against it... I would like to see [POC] force me
into some structure and accountability.”
– B14 founder

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/// Iterate, Iterate, Iterate
We've been struggling to get the most out of the
program while also maintaining focus on growing our
team and growth and operations back in South Africa. It's
definitely meant that we haven't felt like we could
engage as much as we would have wanted to with the
amazing people and resources that are available.
- B14 founder

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/// Designing a Strong Curriculum
with Andrea Barrica, Venture Partner
Q&A
andrea@500.co
@abarrica