Program
Here are the main things you need to know if you want to be part of our next batch!
THE PROGRAM
-
Know-how
Workshops and crash courses in customer development, product, growth hacking, investment, legal & more
-
Business development
Mentoring, on-demand meetings and access to a network of 400 + mentors & 700 startups
-
Pitching for investors
Lots of presentations & pitch practice sessions to help you fine tune your pitch
CALENDAR
The program structure follows a series of natural steps for your further development: mentoring sessions to get contacts early, high-quality training and workshops, pitching practice.
09 January 2017 – Application open
19 February 2017 – Application close
27 February 2017 – Selected teams announced
6 March 2017 – Program starts
8 May 2017 – MVP Academy Demo Day
Evaluation Criteria
All applications are evaluated taking into account the criteria listed below. Check them out and keep them in mind when you do those final tweaks on your application form, to increase you chances of being accepted:
- Team fit & experience
- Market size & trend
- Market validation & traction
- International potential & impact
- Overall feasibility
Evaluation Board
Our experienced evaluation board will help us make the best startup evaluation and make sure we get THE most promising teams into the program. Time to meet them:
-
Bogdan Iordache
Co-Managing Director, MVP Academy
-
Mircea Vadan
Program Manager, MVP Academy
-
Tudor Stanciu
Startups Community Manager, TechHub Bucharest
-
Cosmin Ochisor
Business Development Manager, hub:raum
-
Robert Knapp
Co-Founder & CEO, CyberGhost
-
Carmen Sebe
Angel Investor
-
Mihai Sfintescu
Private equity / Venture Capital Investor
-
Bogdan Ripa
Director of Product, Fitbit
-
Adrian Gheara
Co-Founder, Neobyte Solutions