Start-Hub, Learning Hub For Start-ups
Build your start-up at Sapiens' Incubation Centre
Get personalized entrepreneurial mentorship from qualified mentors & become an established generational entrepreneur.
Building Startups & Nurturing Ideas!!
How do we help entrepreneurs?
In Start-Hub Mentorship Program, we mentor college students, independent entrepreneurs, early stage startups to work on the their ideas. We provide personalized mentorships in MVP testing, market research, team building, product development, sales, marketing, and other areas in order to help them become successful generational entrepreneurs.
Start-Hub Mentorship Program - Learn, Grow, and Expand
Start-Hub (Learning Hub for Startups) mentorship program offers access to a deep and wide-reaching network of investors, mentors, industry experts, and enterprises, which the startups can leverage to fast-track their growth and advancement. The program is also backed by a strong Steering Committee, members of which come from a diverse backgrounds within the startup ecosystem.
Accelerate Your Growth With Us!!
Here’s what a founding team can expect to get from “Start-Hub Mentorship Program”
Get Personalized Mentorship as per your requirements!!
We customize our support & Mentorship based on your Start-up stage
Early Stage
- Understanding the basics of entrepreneurship
- Overview of the entrepreneurial journey
- Mindset shift from employee to entrepreneur
- Incorporation of business
- Understanding the best legal structure for your idea (LLP, LLC, Partnership Firm, Pvt ltd, Proprietorship, etc.)
- Obtaining necessary licenses and permits
- Understanding your business idea in detail
- Creating a business plan, Canva Business Model, KPIs, etc.
- Establishing short-term and long-term goals (Weekly/Monthly basis)
- Ideation and brainstorming with founding team
- Validating the business idea as per the market situation & trend
- Conducting feasibility analysis, financial analysis for your idea
- Risk identification and planning for risk mitigation strategies
- Conducting market research, and understanding the targeted user group
- Designing the product strategy and MVP (Prototypes)
- Identifying USPs to use for marketing purposes
- Defining features of product/Services, Cost, Use-cases as per your idea
- Understanding target customers (STP)
- Competitor analysis (Porter’s)
- Finding barriers to entry
- Using USPs to attract targeted customers
- Market sizing and trends analysis
- Understanding financial statements, building easy to use excel models & dashboards as per your requirements
- Budgeting and cash flow projections
- Overview of taxation laws and basic finance literacy
- Understanding funding options
- Preparing best investor presentations & pitches
- Strategies for bootstrapping and generating early revenue
- Creating a pitch deck alongside feasibility analysis
- Helping you getting in touch with Angel Investors and Venture Capitalists through Skilled Sapiens’ network
- Help in designing organization structure to function & delegate the work properly
- Finding, managing and providing you interns
- Developing mentorship and supervision programs
- Providing resources and support to help interns succeed
- Policies for HR like remuneration, complaint forums, perks and promotions, etc. to be
drafted
Growth Stage
- Understanding the market
Analysis of competitors - Creating Differentiation in terms of USPs, competitive advantage, Customer Exp, etc
- Creating the image & Brand in the market
- Buildling innovative marketing campaigns
- Determining target customer
- Gathering intelligence
- Focusing on a single vertical
- Specifying the value proposition
- Gap analysis, understanding market better, customizing offerings as per the requirements
- Evaluating potential markets
- Deciding on the marketing program(
Communication, pricing and distribution
strategies) - Identifying Go to market strategies
- Identifying best practices of your market
- Bringing automation in your business process
- Guidance on usage of free available tools of lead capturing, CRM, checklists, Follow-ups, E-mail marketing, Content writing, Video editing, etc.
- Automating finance & accounting entries
- Providing domain specific tools
- Assisting with competitive strategies like market challenger and market follower
- Assisting with setting pricing strategy and
understanding consumer psychology
- Facilitating Software licenses, servers and file shares
- Assisting with Virtual or physical network
infrastructure
Arrangement of capital/finance support, a proper business plan,
exceptional management skills & experience and
meeting legal requirements.
- Ways to get funding support from public & private banks, financial institution, NBFC, government schemes
- Understanding funding options
- Preparing best investor presentations & pitches
- Strategies for bootstrapping and generating early revenue
- Creating a pitch deck alongside feasibility analysis
- Helping you getting in touch with Angel Investors and Venture Capitalists through Skilled Sapiens’ network
- Help in designing organization structure to function & delegate the work properly
- Building foundational culture of the startups
- Finding, managing and providing you interns
- Developing mentorship and supervision programs
- Providing resources and support to help interns succeed
- Policies for HR like remuneration, complaint forums, perks and promotions, etc. to be
drafted
Expansion Stage
- Identifying the startups which are at the similar stage and assisting in building possible strategic partnerships
- Building a public domain or platform where you can not only tap in potential VCs for the market expansion but also identifying strategic partners
- Access to our collaborations with top firms in the market like Microsoft, JP Morgan, Google, etc.
- Helping with even better inbound marketing with the help of the corporate partners we have and building Go-to- marketing strategy
- The services would include not only analyzing the customer, but also involve customer retention and acquisition
- Inclusion of technology to learn about the market and scale the business with existing market
- Helping to scale business not only by identifying new markets but also helping to create surveys and understanding of the customer base (customer analysis)
- Helping to identify whether the new market/ product will cater the customers and working on increasing the penetration & conversion rate of it
- Understanding the USP of the product and the value propositions and assisting accordingly
- Expand the business model geographically across the nation
- Optimize and expand the reach of existing products or services
- Implementation of new product or service ideas and expanding the portfolio in right direction
- Be it a new product line or outbound marketing strategies, we do it with the help of professionals in guidance with marketing consultants
- Workshops by Industry experts to develop
strategies and scale the business - Aid in developing marketing and advertising
strategies by the use of strategy consultant - The marketing strategies are made based on the market presence and current position
- Mentorship for appropriate legal decisions at
various levels and processes with cost-effective measures - Advices for effective legal strategies or compliances
- Workshop or sessions for legal frameworks
Get a strong steering committee, members of which come from diverse backgrounds to personalize mentorship for you in various domains including technology, marketing, supply chain, finance, etc.
- Support for connecting with potential VCs for funding opportunities
- Assistance in creating a professional pitch deck for funding programs
- Assistance in calculating the startup valuation
through professionals - Connections with venture capitals and corporate partners for funding
- Guidance for selecting sources for funding
- Help in designing organization structure to function & delegate the work properly
- Finding, managing and providing you interns & full time employees
- Developing Learning & Development programs & modules for employee trainings
- Providing resources and support to help interns/employees succeed
- Policies for HR like remuneration, complaint forums, perks and promotions, etc. to be
drafted
Major Problems of an Entrepreneur!!
Not able to find a team members
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Lack of domain knowledge
Lack of technology knowldege
Not able to scale up
Self doubt & uncertainty
Lack of funding
Start-Hub Mentorship Program
Start-Hub (Learning Hub for Startups) is a personalized mentorship program for startups. We offer customized solutions for different stages of start-ups.
Get onboarded & witness your growth with us!!
Explore Our Incubation Facilities
- Company Registration & Legal Compliances/Advisory
- Developing Investor Pitches, Fixing Meetings with Potential Investors
- Obtaining & Generating Funding for the Ideas
- Interns Outsourcing, Work-Force planning & Business Automation
- Conducting Market Research for Your Idea
- Prototype Testing, and Idea Generation, and Assessment
- Growth & Expansion Strategies, Marketing & Sales Support
- Lead-Generation, Cost Analysis, Business Plan Guidance
- Web Development, Tax Advisory, Human Resource Planning
Our Industry Collaborations & Mentors' Profile
Frequently Asked Questions
- Skilled Sapiens is a community supported by IIM and IIT alumni to mentor and guide college students in their career & professional growth. The goal of this community is to provide a ” Personal Mentor” who will support and guide students in getting placements by improving their juniors’ soft and technical abilities.
- All of the mentors in this community are either working professionals at top MNCs or have successfully launched their businesses. We aim to provide one-on-one personal mentoring and hand-holding to all the members of our community until they are placed in their dream company. We also provide entrepreneurial guidance to our students who wish to establish their businesses while pursuing their educational degrees.
- Our Mentor will be lifelong partners who will always be there for our community members when they need guidance and assistance. In B-schools, we want to create an informal mentor-mentee environment with the help of this initiative.
- Self-evaluate your profile & check domain knowledge. If you need structured mentorship & guidance in your placement preparation, then go with skilled sapiens.
- Enroll & join our community & tell us your requirements & expectations. Start learning via personalized & customized mentorship sessions & Modules.
- Get your profile credentials. Interact with our mentors Schedule calls with your mentors & other learners Get curated modules & sessions Learn & become skilled Sapiens.
- Successfully get placed into your dream company/role. You can also request on-demand sessions.
We have a pool of mentors with varied experience and qualifications (IIT & IIM alumni). We will assign the best suitable mentors for you based on the details filled you in the application form at registration
After enrolling in any of our courses, you will be given options to choose domain experts. You can schedule regular/ weekly meetings with them, and also, there will be an option to email 24*7. You can also ask for additional sessions before any interview.
You need to register with us with your LinkedIn profile. After successful verification of your details, you will receive access to our portal.
Skilled sapiens initially filter by thoroughly reviewing their profile with the help of the industry expertise and post that we also have a process of mentor rating after each service we take suggestions from you and based on which we keep the check on the quality.
This Platform has multiple consultants to guide the entrepreneurs in different phases of start-ups; entrepreneurs can get their idea verified before launching. Entrepreneurs can also learn various start-ups basics and expert-level knowledge through our multiple Entrepreneurship and start-up-related courses.
We mentor our students to start their start-ups before even passing out from their respective colleges. We coach our students to establish their businesses. We provide our students with personalized mentorships in MVP testing, market research, team building, product development, sales, marketing, and other areas to help them become successful generational entrepreneurs.
We have specifically designed modules that would be key to Placements and SIPs. These modules are created by the industry experts, which included all the major questions asked in the domain interview. Apart from this, you can also learn different courses to boost your course knowledge.
Also, we provide paid consulting & other domain live projects in top MNCs or growing/funded startups to our community members.
