Updated 20.8.2024.
Do you have a business idea you would like to develop?
Havuja Bootcamp is the 1st stage of the Havuja business accelerator program by Business Center North Savo.
Bootcamp is meant for anyone who has an initial business idea and would like to work on it. Participants get to develop their business idea in four intensive 3h workshops with the help of experts from Business Center North Savo. You don’t have to have a clear business idea ready. In the final session all teams get to present their business idea to the Bootcamp jury.
You can participate by yourself or as a team of 2–5.
You get two (2) credits from participating to your elective studies.
All sessions are organized remotely via Zoom – except for one live day. This round of Bootcamp is conducted in Finnish.
Havuja Bootcamp gives you:
- Tools for developing your initial idea into a feasible business
- Skills for pitching your business idea
- Contacts that can help you with your business idea further
- 2 credits for your elective studies
- Access to the entrepreneurial community of Business Center North Savo
- Guidance on how to continue your business idea development e.g., in Draft Program and get pre-seed funding of 4000 EUR
Program objectives
Participant learns how to develop one’s own business idea with various tools and methods. They learn to do preliminary market research to demonstrate the feasibility of a business idea and how to do short- and long-term project planning to advance the business idea. Participant learns how to build a pitch deck and how to do a concise pitch presentation of one’s business idea.
Comments from previous participants
Session themes and dates of autumn 2024:
- Tue 22.10. 15:30-18:30 Bootcamp 1: Idea crystallization
- Tue 29.10. 15:30-18:30 Bootcamp 2: Market reasearch
- Tue 05.11. 15:30-18:30 Bootcamp 3: Project planning
- Mon 18.11. 15:30-18:30 Bootcamp 4: Pitching training
- Tue 26.11. 16:30-18:30 Bootcamp 5: Live day at Business Center office
- Tue 03.12. 15:30-18:00 Bootcamp 6: Pitching day
