Co-Founders is designed for people with great ideas to meet people who want to work on great ideas. To help them establish a founder team, and with that team – validate their idea, test it in the real world, develop their business know-how and ultimately to understand if they have a viable start-up idea.

Four Stages

Step One: Co-found a team
Co-Founders begins with forming a team. You might be someone with an idea looking for talent. You might be talented and looking for an idea to pursue. Or maybe you are already a small team looking for the missing link. All are welcome – and at our Hothouse weekend we will bring the full cohort together to facilitate that teambuilding process.

Step Two: Validate your idea
So you have a team – and your team has an idea. Now begins the process of validation. Working alongside subject-matter experts, and through direct contact with our leadership team, you will begin to learn how to assess your own idea, how to make sure it tackles a real-world problem and verify that the demand is there to create scalable business.

Step Three: Build a solution
Once your idea has been validated – it’s time to start building a solution to tackle the problem. If you make it to the final stage of Co-Founders you’ll likely be ready to start getting your MVP together. We have a Design Hub right here in Catalyst where we can show you how to prototype, how to test and if you gain access to Co-Founders+ we can start the deeper work on what makes your business proposition unique and valuable.

Step Four: Accelerate your start-up
If your team is chosen as one of the successful teams on the programme then you will be invited to join the second phase of the programme, Co-Founders+, a programme designed to help teams, level up their start-up along the next step of the entrepreneurial journey. You’ll receive personalised mentor support as well as interactive workshops delivered by well-known thought leaders.

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