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Passionate and result oriented entrepreneurial leader with nearly 10 years of experience. He has built a track record in Digital Product Development, Launch of New Businesses & business models, General Management, Lean Startup and Global Strategy with a focus on the intersection of technology, people and venturing.
Together with a great team Don co-founded a company called Rockstart where they created, launched and managed International programs for entrepreneurs in the domains of Web&Mobile, Smart Energy, Digital Health and Artificial Intelligence, both in Netherlands and LATAM. With his co-founder Rune, Don screened 5000+ startups pitches and together with an IC selected the best 150 startups to enter one of their programs.
After entering the program the startups received follow on investment totalling 70+ million from private investors and grew from 0 to EUR 350 million in value. Don also started Rockstart’s corporate practice where he launched custom made programs and competitions for companies like Philips, Sony and Shell.
Don loves working with teams and inspiring people to become more entrepreneurial, implementing new business models, applying the latest (lean) startup methodologies and helping to innovate companies and bring new products to market. In his personal life, he enjoys spending time with his family&friends, and he likes travelling, nature, squash, music and politics.
- Understanding the top reasons startups fail, so you (hopefully) won’t make the same mistakes
- Learning the must-have roles to have in your team
- Learning how to validate a business model & why this is so important
- Learning how to talk during customer-interviews, “the right way”
- Learn how to design a great “go-to” market strategy for your business
- Learning how to work in sprints for your company
- How to use LinkedIn to your advantage
- Learning the essentials of how to create a high performing team
- 10 general lessons learned around fundraising
- Co-creating a list with all the students of relevant investors to talk to
- Having an A++ accelerator application form ready with feedback from the teacher to continue startup after Demo Day
- Creating a Demo Day pitch where all the most important elements investors are looking for are present
SKILLS:
-Entrepreneurship
-Pitching
-Startup ideation
-Market strategy
-Startup methodologies
DATE: 19 Aug - 6 Sep, 2019
DURATION: 3 Weeks
LECTURES: 3 Hours per day
LANGUAGE: English
LOCATION: Barcelona, Harbour.Space Campus
COURSE TYPE: Offline
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
COURSE OUTLINEABOUT DON
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This course is the culmination of your year’s work. During this course you will learn the essentials and practicalities of starting a company, how to validate your idea, launch a prototype and get it to the market, and finally: ready to present to investors at Demo Day. This course will be personalised and focused on where you are with your current idea, so whether you’re in the ideation stage or you have a launched MVP, this course will take you through the next step(s). From there, whether it’s one step or more depends on your efforts and hard work.
This course will be different than what you’re used to, as the time will be split between lectures and personalised coaching for you and your team. This is a different setup, but it will allow me as a teacher to teach you the things you need to learn now. Based on my experience I expect this will be very impactful.
This course will be designed based on my personal learnings of founding Rockstart and working with 150 startups who raised EUR 70 million and are now worth EUR 350 million.
DON RITZEN
HARBOUR.SPACE UNIVERSITY
DATE: 19 Aug – 6 Sep, 2019
DURATION: 3 Weeks
LECTURES: 3 Hours per day
LANGUAGE: English
LOCATION: Barcelona, Harbour.Space Campus
COURSE TYPE: Offline
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Session 2
1-hour personalised coaching with the teams, depending on your stage: focused on customer validation/customer interviews or go to market strategy
Session 3
Presentation: Speaking to your competitors, how to find them and approach this
Session 1
Course kick-off, personal story Don Ritzen, top 10 reasons why startups fail, entrepreneurship fundamentals, Next Startup Ideation Canvas
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Session 4
Personalised coaching with the teams, focused on NEXT Startup Canvas / NEXT Startup ideation canvas
This course is the culmination of your year’s work. During this course you will learn the essentials and practicalities of starting a company, how to validate your idea, launch a prototype and get it to the market, and finally: ready to present to investors at Damo Day. This course will be personalised and focused on where you are with your current idea, so whether you’re in the ideation stage or you have a launched MVP, this course will take you through the next step(s). From there, whether it’s one step or more depends on your efforts and hard work.
This course will be different than what you’re used to, as the time will be split between lectures and personalised coaching for you and your team. This is a different setup, but it will allow me as a teacher to teach you the things you need to learn now. Based on my experience I expect this will be very impactful.
This course will be designed based on my personal learnings of founding Rockstart and working with 150 startups who raised EUR 70 million and are now worth EUR 350 million.
PRE-ACCELERATOR & DEMO DAY BOOTCAMP
PRE-ACCELERATOR & DEMO DAY BOOTCAMP
