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This is an application page for blackbox connect // April 2012 program.
blackbox connect is highly selective and to apply you have to pay a $100 application fee.
If you get accepted to the program, you will receive an email with further details, and the fee will go towards the program fee. Otherwise your application fee will be refunded.
Program Highlights
Detailed programs are to be announced, but you can check out previous blackbox connect speakers and blackbox connect videos.
Talks:
- Basics of Venture Capital
- Raising Money in Silicon Valley
- Equity & Stock Options for Startup Founders
- Legal Issues with Born Global Startups
- First Hand Founders Success Stories
- …and more to be announced
Get out of the building:
- Meet with SIlicon Valley potential customers and users
- Join Startup Crawls and visit local Silicon Valley startups
- Attend networking dinners held at the blackbox mansion and around Silicon Valley
- learn how to pitch for the Demo Day with invited investors
Workshops:
- Understanding your customer: Lean Persona generation, identifying assumptions about your customer and turning them into hypotheses, validating these hypotheses, and understanding your customers' needs. Dump and sort methods, persona sketching, and essentials of user interviews.
- Acting on Customer Needs: Ideation around how customers could use your product to meet their needs, validating those uses and deriving and prioritizing features from them. 6-up sketching, dot voting, 2x2 prioritization grid.
- Metrics: An introduction to qualitative vs. quantitative research. Lightweight frameworks for qualitative research.
- Pitch your startup and improve your presentations skills
Program Timeline
- February 15th 2012 - early application deadline.
Apply by February 15th and get a FREE week stay voucher for the blackbox mansion, valid for your next visit between now and April 30, 2013 (subject to availability and 30 days advance booking).
- March 15th 2012 - final application deadline
- April 2nd - April 15th - onsite blackbox connect program in Silicon Valley
What's included:
- Lectures, Workshops and all Learning Materials
- Accommodation in blackbox mansion in Atherton during the program April 2nd - April 15th, 2012 including breakfast and lunch each day (some dinners)
- Organized visits to succesful Silicon Valley startups & tech companies
- Demo Day with invited investors
Airfare, visas and transportation from and to the airport are not included!
When
Monday, April 2, 2012 at 10:00 PM - Sunday, April 15, 2012 at 1:00 PM (PT)
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We are a next generation seed accelerator for technology startups based in the heart of Silicon Valley. We connect entrepreneurs with a global network of seed investors, mentors and market entrance partners, and work with entrepreneurs to run their startups more effectively.
