WEBINARS
In addition to the coaching support by the mentor, Copernicus Accelerator mentees also benefit from exclusive webinars in which they are provided with approximately 1-hour training on either a technical or a business topic. The webinars´ speakers share their knowledge and experience about additional and useful tools which help Copernicus Accelerator participants to take their business ideas to the next level. Questions and debate with participants are also encouraged, in order to make the sessions interactive. As part of the Copernicus Accelerator programme, only mentees and mentors can attend the webinar, but everyone else interested in the topics, is kindly invited to listen to the recordings of the webinar afterwards! Please note: Only the business webinars will be made public, not the technical ones.
UPCOMING WEBINARS
Webinar #9: What’s next? The public funding instruments explained – 29. August 2019, 05:00 CEST
Now that you have learned how to improve your business model, how to pitch and how to sell, your business maybe already thriving. You perhaps already started to look for funding to support your growth.
During this webinar, you will learn about public funding opportunities such as the Copernicus Incubation programme, the EIC Accelerator and the ESA BICS and Business Applications!
Webinar #10: What’s next? Intimite roundtable with two Angel investors – 12. September 2019, 17:00 CEST
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WEBINAR RECORDINGS
Webinars of the Copernicus Accelerator 2018/2019
Webinar #1: Testing Your Product
This webinar is the first session of 6 “Start-up Master Class” interactive webinars and will discuss the experiments and tests you can undertake to validate and to… INVALIDATE your product, the LEAN way of testing your product/service, and the cognitive mistakes that can cost us a fortune or… well, just time.
• Experimenting as part of the product game
• Designing research rooted in science
• How to validate the product/how to invalidate the product
• The in-depth target group research
Webinar #2: DIAS offerings for Start-Ups
Copernicus is the largest space data provider in the world, currently producing 12 terabytes per day. To facilitate and standardise access to this data, the European Commission has launched five cloud-based platforms providing centralised access to Copernicus data and information, along with cloud-based processing resources, tools, and third-party datasets, products, and services – the Data and Information Access Services or DIAS.
The webinar provides the exclusive opportunity to learn what the DIAS offer to the participants of the Copernicus Start-up Programme. A particular focus will be on the DIAS vouchers which will be made available to all mentees of the Copernicus Accelerator 2019.
Following a general introduction by AZO, the DIAS providers will present their specific voucher offerings for your start-ups and answer your questions. This is a rare opportunity to get first-hand information on how you as a start-up can benefit from ever-growing services and datasets in the Copernicus ecosystem.
Webinar #3: Entrepreneurial stories from Copernicus Accelerator Alumni
Meet three of our alumni who are excited to share their experiences as a Copernicus Accelerator mentee. Learn how they continued to build up their start-up after graduation from the Accelerator, and join us to hear their inside tips, advice, suggestions and recommendations, useful for your Copernicus start-up!
Webinar #4: Minimal Viable Product by Piotr Bucki
This webinar is the 2nd training session of our Start-Up Master Class, by Piotr Bucki. This time you will learn why designing a minimal viable product (MVP) is essential for testing your value proposition as well as what are the best practices and pitfalls of Lean-Start-up approach to understand the process and get easy to use tools.
• What MVP is/what MVP definitely is not
• Roads to good MVP
• Human-centred design and MVP – using your target audience to create valid MVPs
• A prediction and the simplest model to test the prediction
• Testing the MVP predictions
Webinar #5: Lean start-up
Lean Start-up is not just a fancy word like agile and MVP. It is a ready-to -use and implement a strategy that helps you avoid mistakes and scale naturally using tools, canvas, and mindsets needed to operate globally. We will learn the bits of theory but focus on the practical aspects of Lean Start-up.
- Lean Start-up methodology and misconceptions about it
- Lean Start-up approach is not just for start-ups/how can a company or a person benefit from the approach?
- Case studies of the Lean Start-up methodology
- Elements of the Lean Start-up approach in action
- Validating learning as the core principle of the Lean Start-up methodology
Webinar #6: Pitch Anything
We all need to pitch and communicate our ideas at some point or another. Without this skill honed, our brilliant ideas will vanish unrecognised by clients, investors and the media.
- Rules of human to human communication (great both for B2C and B2B start-ups)
- Pitch based on brain-centred communication
- Sales and client communication
- Elements of an investors pitch
- Different types of start-up pitches
Webinar #7: Motivation and productivity in a start-up
Motivation and productivity are not the first things that come to mind when thinking about start-up life. After all, those entrepreneurs and self-employed should be extremely self-motivated and productive. But is the busy-ness really the hard work or just false-pretence? How can you make most of time and motivation to run the marathon and not just to spark a flame at the beginning? During the webinar, you will learn:
- Everything about external and intrinsic motivation
- How to find the flow and managing tasks in a team
- Productivity hacks that are science-based
- Stress-management techniques
- How to effectively spend time in meetings and not loose energy / resources on too much of a ‘start-up life’
- About the best platforms and tools for you marketing
- Principles of targeted creative marketing
- Analytics behind your ideas
- About the best marketing formats for your startup
- Ways to boost sales with simple techniques
Webinar #8: How to do a start-up’s marketing on a tight budget
Although it would be wonderful to have unlimited resources to do Marketing and Smarketing campaigns, it could also easily be very dangerous and demotivating, to say the least. Marketing requires great ideas, great insights and great sets of tools. During the webinar you will learn:
- About the best platforms and tools for your marketing
- Principles of targeted creative marketing
- Analytics behind your ideas
- About the best marketing formats for your start-up
- Ways to boost sales with simple techniques
Webinars of the Copernicus Accelerator 2017/2018
Webinar #1: Lean Start-up
Lean Start-up is not just a fancy word like agile and MVP. It is a ready to use and implement strategy that helps you avoid mistakes and scale naturally using tools, canvas and mindsets needed to operate globally. Learn more about the theory and further practical aspects of Lean Start-up: https://youtu.be/KMPw-4i2D60
Webinar #2: Minimal Viable Product (MVP)
Designing minimal viable product is essential when it comes to creating and testing value proposition for our future customers. It is rooted deeply in the Lean Start-up Philosophy. You will learn best practices and pitfalls of such approach to understand the process and get easy to use tools. Both for B2C and B2B: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6oi2tOvT-A
Webinar #3: Testing Your Product
This webinar discusses the experiments and tests you can undertake to validate and to… INVALIDATE your product, the LEAN way of testing your product/service, and the cognitive mistakes that can cost us a fortune or… well, just time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-eB1QTmlBc&t=5s
Webinar #4: Pitch Anything
We all need to pitch and communicate our ideas at some point or another. Without this skill honed, our brilliant ideas will vanish unrecognised by clients, investors and the media! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9L8F6nHxmI
Webinar #5: Motivation and productivity in a start-up
Motivation and productivity are not the first things that come to mind when thinking about start-up life. After all, those entrepreneurs and self-employed should be extremely self-motivated and productive. But is the busy-ness really the hard work or just false-pretence? How can you make most of time and motivation to run the marathon and not just to spark a flame at the beginning? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDJHnIDW37Y
Webinar #6: How to do start-up’s marketing on a tight budget
Although it would be wonderful to have unlimited resources to do Marketing and Smarketing campaigns, it could also easily be very dangerous and demotivating, to say the least. Marketing requires great ideas, great insights and great sets of tools. https://youtu.be/1DfwfJS_OvI
Webinar #7: Angel Investment: What does an investor look for?
Fabrice Testa talks about what an investor expects from entrepreneurs and how you can increase your chances of receiving funding. https://youtu.be/eUo6rA3Or2I
Webinar #8: DIAS offerings for Start-Ups
Last year, the European Commission launched an initiative to develop five DIAS (or Copernicus Data and Information Access Services). These have the objective to facilitate access to Copernicus data and information, in combination with cloud-based processing resources, tools and third-party datasets. Meanwhile, five DIAS-platforms have seen the daylight, each with its own features for a variety of user needs. This is a rare opportunity to gain a privileged insight in the portfolio of ever-growing services and datasets in the Copernicus ecosystem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdviIWxZlOc&feature=youtu.be
Webinar #9: Public funding opportunities for Start-Ups
Finding access to finance is one of the main challenges for a start-up to be confronted with. Public funding is a great way to support your enterprise in its seed or start-up phase and to support your R&D efforts. Within Europe, there are plenty of available instruments for access to public funding, and some are even dedicated to start-ups in Space. We give the floor to three public programmes or institutions to explain what they offer, and how this could benefit your Copernicus-based start-up! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdviIWxZlOc&feature=youtu.be
Webinar #10: Entrepreneurial Stories from Copernicus Accelerator Alumni – 29 November 2018, 17:00 CET
Meet three of our alumni who are excited to share their experiences as a Copernicus Accelerator mentee. Learn how they continued to build up their start-up after graduation from the Accelerator, and join us to hear their inside tips, advice, suggestions and recommendations, useful for your Copernicus start-up! https://youtu.be/AZ3fY939oXk
