Our 1-month long Startup Sprint will take you through the fundamental steps of starting a new business.

The Startup Sprint

Startup Sprint is a 1 month programme that will take up and coming entrepreneurs through the fundamental steps of launching their own business.

BEC fosters a culture of innovation, entrepreneurship and community-building for rising entrepreneurs seeking the know-how and tools to build their start-up. Starting with a look at our module on ‘Entrepreneurship & Challenging Times’, by the end of the programme you will have an understanding of who your customers are, be able to identify suitable business models for your business, validate your idea and, finally, begin creating the first version of your product or service.

Startup Sprint startups also receive tailored mentorship to support in business strategy, trouble-shooting challenges, and avoiding costly mistakes founders typically fall into.

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Startup Sprint focuses on 4 pillars of launching your business:

Understanding Customers

Conduct customer discovery to build strong profitable relationships with your customer base.

Business Model Building

Learn how to frame, build, and/or reinvent your Business Model, its execution, and how to best present it to customers and investors

Finance & Legals

Talk with financial and legal startup experts to understand what structures your startup must have in place.

MVP Building

Build the first version of your product or service to test features and iterative to a final version

The Programme includes access to:

9 Virtual Sessions

Access to a community of Entrepreneurs

One-to-one Mentoring Sessions

Templates, tools, and partner resources that can save you over 5000£

Signposting to further support services

Our Startup Sprint Mentors
With expertise spanning across industries and stages of growth, our mentors provide valuable insight into launching your startup and positioning yourself in the market.

Daniel Evans

CEO @ BEC

Bethan Bishop

The Impact Mentor

Bart Dalton

BullRing founder, Author & Speaker

Omran Al Habbal

COO @ BEC

Alex Balderstone

Founder of Kaiku

Alana Matos

UX Designer At The Economist

Lee Lam

Blindspot Consultant At Lee Lam Consultancy

Female Founders Scholarship

BEC is proud to offer 3 scholarships every month to aspiring female entrepreneurs interested in participating in the Startup Sprint Launch programme.

As part of the Female Founders Scholarship, recipients will be paired with trailblazing women who will mentor and pass on their expertise as experience to Founders.

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Build your idea with Startup Sprint

Application: Open – Accepted on a rolling basis
Next Sprint start date: 5th of October 2020
Location: Virtual
Duration: 1 month
Fee: £300 per Startup*

*The value of the Sprint is over £1000 and includes savings to 15 startup softwares and services and is marked down £700 to support our Founders during the pandemic.

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“I cannot overstress how important entrepreneurship is to the future of this region and if you are a student here thinking of setting a business up this is simply the only place to do it!”

Andy Street

Mayor of West Midland

Honoured to have been selected for the female founder scholarship on the BEC Startup Sprint! […] The mentoring sessions were so insightful and have helped us tackle the important questions we have as a startup during this unprecedented time.

Dina Bahrami

Founder of Nutri Beauties

When applying, I questioned how relevant it would be for me as an artist […] but it turns out is super relevant and so, so valuable. It’s really enabled me to shift my perspective to seeing my art as a business and I now have a clear path of how I’m going to make those steps in getting there.

Imogen Morris

Imogen Embroidery Art

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