Course Description
As a second-year course, ACCELeratoredu provides students the opportunity to take a business from startup to launch. The experience models that of a real-life start-up accelerator with a focus on developing cohorts of teams through mentorship, education, connections, and accountability to launch a company. This course fosters the transition of businesses founded in INCubatoredu into sustainable, functioning ventures. Students work through major areas of content: legal & banking, customer acquisition, business processes, and product development, and leave the course having gained traction in the marketplace to successfully launch their company.
Open to 11-12
Credit: 1.0 ELC
Format: Traditional
Prerequisite: ACCELeratoredu is appropriate for students and teams who completed the INCubatoredu program with a grade of A or B
and who:
* have earned seed funding to launch their business
*are willing to use a crowdfunding source to raise funds
*are working as interns or employees for a business launched from the INCubatoredu program