Find an idea, find a team and learn more about the contest. The kickoff is where the fun starts, no matter whether you have already applied or whether you're still undecided....

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Every innovation has an impact on our world – They can be in a small manner or hugely disruptive, positive as well as negative and they might happen intended or unintended. As history has shown, some of these negative unintended consequences could have been avoided by being aware of the potential consequences early in the innovation process. To ensure this doesn't happen to you and your idea, we will address this issue in this workshop by combining your understanding of the broader impact of entrepreneurial action with challenges to your individual awareness of the potential impact of your innovation. If you are ready for impactful ideation - Join us in our action-based workshop and bring your idea to the next level.

Is your product already suitable for the market? Which features do your customers want? And how can you make users really love your product? In this workshop, we'll show you some creative tools to develop products that really meet customers' needs. We'll explain how product designers work and go through the key steps of product development. The goal is to develop empathy and a deep understanding of your target audience. Finally, we will show you how to test your concepts using different kinds of prototyping.

You have a great business idea, but no idea how to proceed? Don't worry: In this workshop we will explain how to develop products and services that your customers really want! We will show you different tools to easily develop innovative business models and put them into practice!

Learn how to communicate your business idea and how to prepare for big events like the GROW finals or the Elevator Pitch BW to get as much value from them as possible You will find out how excellent presentations are made and get valuable tips for pitching better than ever before. Founding teams will be able to understand their audience and adapt the pitch deck to them. In addition, you will hear more about the investor mindset and learn to address their exceptions to increase the change to raise venture capital. The Pitch Workshop provided by EnTechnon includes the possibility to exchange thoughts at roundtables over a cup of coffee and share ideas with other startups, educators and researchers.

Testing the desirability of your business-idea should always be the first step! Investing time and ressources into building something that in the end nobody wants is the most common mistake among first-time-founders and even experienced entrepreneurs tend to fall into this trap. All of them can very convincingly tell you, why their case is an exception. It never is. What customers say they want and what they actually end up buying are two very different things. Therefore surveys of potential customers can give you interesting qualitative feedback. But the best way to find out, how well the market will actually respond to your product is to simply start selling it. Today. In this workshop you will do exactly that. Yes, before you've even started building your product. We will tell you why this is absolutely not a problem and we will show you how to do it.

Get feedback concerning your Midterm-Pitch from us, the GROW-Orga Team!

Get feedback concerning your Midterm-Pitch from us, the GROW-Orga Team!

The teams will pitch their idea and progress in front of an expert jury and the 10 best teams are choosen to proceed to the Final on January 22! || Please enter Zoom until 5:30 pm. After the Stream is over (around 10 pm), there will be an online get-together. So please stay in Zoom at least for 30 minutes after the Streaming Event is over.

Thanks to Covid-19, we will have an amazing day collaborating together via an online virtual space. We will have a lunch, together with a student founder to talk to. And in the afternoon, there will be a fireside chat with Volocopter founder Staphan Wolf and Michael Becker. - That is the plan so far. We will update you with information to that in advance.

You have an awesome product idea and want to know its real potential? When developing a business model, you make all kind of assumptions. Let's make ourselves aware of them and reach out to validate the most important ones. Based on your value proposition canvas, user research and prototyping from previous workshops we will provide you with tools to get customer feedback on your product assumptions in a real life scenario.

A performing Marketing and Sales funnel will provide your business the basis to understand every stage of connection with your customer. It maps out each stage of the clients decision process and the steps to take there. We will build a simplified mapping of a Marketing and Sales funnel with you, check out how to set it up and how it creates value to every day business and your clients. Let´s learn how to bring that theoretical formation to life and which Marketing tools can help.

Great ideas are the basis for great ventures, nonetheless equity and financing are the backbone of every successful company ever built. In this workshop we will discuss different types of financing, how financing rounds work and which essentials you need to get funded. This also will include work on your business model, equity story / pitch deck and financial model.

In one on one sessions, we will get you ready for your final pitch! You will get a 30 min block and be guided by our experience PG-Pitchtrainer Han. Please be prepared with your Final Pitch and take the chance to get the full potential out of it.

Pitch your results and progresses made in the contest and win our prizes. This is what you've been working for! Pitch one last time in front of a huge audience and show what you've learned and how far you have come...