Silicon Rio is a 6 weeks co-creation lab where you will build your digital business from scratch.
Why co-creation? You won’t be alone.
We will guide you through the process, but more importantly provide you with our tech team and business mentors advice and support.
We will co-create together a company of your dream.
What You Get
- Your Minimum Viable Product developed (MVP)
- Your functional prototype tested on real users
- Imaguru tech team support and co-creation efforts
- Market and sales strategy built
- Business development advice form Imaguru international network of mentors, and finally
- Clear and transparent response to the most important question of your life - whether the idea of your dream can turn into a viable business product
- Self esteem and recognition from entrepreneurial community to take risk, courage and effort to do smth you were dreaming about - build a company of your dream
Why you should apply
We are looking for enthusiastic teams hungry of entrepreneurship.
If you have an idea or a digital solution of a problem you or other people experience, if you believe this problem is big and painful enough to grow a scalable business, please apply.
No matter you are a student, a freelancer or senior professional,
you should be eager to finalize an MVP during an intensive six-week program and focus on smth that inspires you most.
What you will learn along building your product
How digital products are designed and delivered
How new technologies such as Blockchain disrupt industries
How to research your market and test you idea quickly,using the approach "fail quick, fail cheap"
How to validate your business idea with proven methodologies such as Design Thinking, Business Model Canvas and Lean Startup
How to pitch your business idea in the most compelling way
Our advantages
ENTREPRENEURIAL SPIRIT
Have the courage to take risk and embrace innovation
FOCUS ON THINGS DONE
Each week you will focus on a specific milestone and rewarded for your achievement.
HANDS-ON LEARNING
Our program takes you through the real-life process of building a startup from idea to market and gives you the tools and support to make it happen.
CO-CREATION
You are not alone.
You have full access to our tech and business support.
Agenda
Week 1
Idea validation
You will validate your idea using a design thinking approach
Week 2
Prototyping
You will build a first prototype of your product
Week 3
Marketing plan
You will design and launch the product and with a built sales strategy.
Week 4-6
Traction and Partnership
Focused on the acquisition of the first 1000 users and pitch to mentors and investors.
Teambuilding and Community Creation.
We learn together, help each other and collaborate. Our Principe is Work Hard - Party Harder. Each week we will have teambuilding activities: visits to museums and excursions. We share knowledge and experience and have fun.