Lessons for incubator from DNES experience

1. WISE Acceleration Bootcamp
Key learnings

5. Changing the World
Through Entrepreneurship
BUSINESS AS A FORCE
FOR GOOD

6. Pitching
Value Proposition
Growth
Startup Valuation
Communication
Lean Canvas
Marketing
Sale
Ideal Customer
Impact

7. Lessons learned

8. Incubator
an Incubator is a Startup

9. Incubator’s Customers are Entrepreneurs

10. Incubators' first job is to help entrepreneurs
to validate their business ideas

11. Incubators look for great entrepreneurs,
not great businesses

12. Entrepreneurs prefer mentorship
by like-minded mentors

15. Incubators need to
tell stories and stories
of entrepreneurs are
important!

16. Incubators need money to
last
• Sponsors
• Donors
• Co-working Space
• Events
• Corporate Innovation
• Funding

17. Incubators don’t have to compete with each other

18. Incubators should regularly revise and adapt to
new changes

20. It did not work ?!

22. Team
Pitch/Storytelling
Community management
Entrepreneurs
Like-minded community
Real added values
Storytelling
Mentors
Choices
Branding
Customer Validation: Product/Market Fit

23. Training
Incubating
Investing
Toward DNES Incubator 1.1
Training
Prepared Entrepreneurs
with Biz Ideas
Incubating
Potential Entrepreneurs
with Validated Biz Models
(Seed) Investing
Real Entrepreneurs with
Growth Companies