Online Incubation Program

INCUBATION

Our remote incubation program matches quality seeds with the best soil for sprouting

PLANNING

You come with your idea and we guide you through a proper business development model designed for social enterprises.

VALIDATION

During the validation process we help you to work on your product-market fit, clarify intellectual property issues, and build up a support network for your implementation.

IMPACT MEASURE

In order to better your chances of attracting social investors, donors or customers you will need to prove your impact potential. In our program we help you to find your way to measure and highlight your impact.

I am interested

The duration of the incubation process is 6 months with an opportunity to extend it with additional 3 months

What is happening during the incubation?

The process is tailored to your needs following different models,

the list below is not a linear model, it is a showcase of the most common topics.

You also can handpick the most relevant topics and elements contacting

our skill mentors for theme specific consultation.

(Click on the photo to contact our mentors)

Idea creation

Ideation is the creative process of generating, developing, and communicating new ideas, where an idea is understood as a basic element of thought that can be either visual, concrete, or abstract.

Zsolt

Bugarszki

(Hungary)

Katri-Liis

Lepik

(Estonia)

Problem assessment, market analysis

We help you to identify and analyse the main societal and/or environmental problems you want to address with your idea. You also need to do a market research on your customers' needs and about existing solutions on the market.

Ildikó Barna

(Hungary)

Audrone Urmanaviciene

(Lithuania)

Leendert de Bell

(Netherlands)

Marek Mühlberg

(Estonia)

Business plan

Translating your idea to business terms. We are usually working with the CANVAS business model adapted to social entrepreneurship.

Prototyping

We help you to develop the prototype of your product or service. We usually use design thinking in our development process.

Pierce Dargan

(Ireland)

Customer personas

A persona, in user-centred design is a fictional character created to represent a user type that might use a site, brand, or product in a similar way.

Jodee Lim

(Singapore)

User involvement

In our incubation program we pay particular attention to user involvement. Social entrepreneurs are often targeting vulnerable people (people with disabilities, mental health problems, elderly people..) with their services or they run their business with the participation of vulnerable group members.

Anikó

Sándor

(Hungary)

Csilla

Cserti-Szauer

(Hungary)

Storytelling

In social entrepreneurship personal stories behind the business are very important. We help you to build up your narrative using. storytelling

Isabelle

Swiderski

(Canada)

Hayley

Trowbridge

(UK)

Michaela Engström

(Estonia)

Sara

Sinha

(India)

Design

We help you to build up your brand with strong visual elements. We put an emphasize on web design, UX/UI design and your business's online presentation.

Social media marketing, marketing

Building channels to your customers. We help you to identify and use the best channels to reach your customers.

Keti

(Georgia)

Ashley Misleh

(USA)

Sales, revenue creation

The art of making money, turning your initiative to be self-reliant and sustainable.

Tom Austin

(Ireland)

Impact measurement

We help you to emphasize your societal/environmental impact. We use different tools for impact measurement using the UN Sustainability Goals as general framework.

Jackson Seng

(Singapore)

Validation

You have a minimum viable product/service, identified customers and channels built to them, measured impact and proven ability to generate business revenue. Your are ready to move toward acceleration.

Christopher Yang

(Singapore)