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Social Entrepreneurship Online Bootcamp

Launch your social impact startup in 2 months

Launch or join a startup solving social, health or environmental problems and contribute towards achieving the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals. Apply a proven entrepreneurship curriculum, receive expert mentorship, build alongside a community of mission-driven entrepreneurs and get $50,000 in partner benefits. Pitch your startup to the innovation community on Demo Day.

Teams that validate interest for their solution will be eligible to receive an investment offer from our partner fund.

Key Features

Social Entrepreneurship Framework


Build your startup with MIT's "Disciplined Entrepreneurship", Google Venture's "Sprint" and HubSpot's "Flywheel". Apply the "Theory of Change" framework to articulate how you will make an impact to your stakeholders.

Expert
Mentorship


Expert mentors provide weekly 1-1 guidance on customer discovery, solution design, business model, go-to-market strategy, customer acquisition and pitching your startup.

Startup Guide and Tools


Get 1-year access to the BonBillo Platform with lecture videos, quizzes, startup templates, milestone deliverables and our community discussion forum. Engage with VerroBot, our startup guide, for summaries and resources on key topics.

Partner Perks


Receive benefits and discounts worth more than $50,000 from our partners including HubSpot for Startups, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud for Startups Program, Shoobx, Miro, Customer Camp, EllisX and The Capital Network, to help accelerate your growth.

Community


Join our community events to learn from mission-driven founders and investors who've made an impact. Recruit co-founders and teammates using BonBillo's Impact Jobs Board.

Demo Day


Pitch your social impact startup to the innovation community and receive investor feedback.

Online Social Entrepreneurship Bootcamp - US, Canada and LatAm
Online Social Entrepreneurship Bootcamp - US, Canada and LatAm
Online Social Entrepreneurship Bootcamp - US, Canada and LatAm
Online Social Entrepreneurship Bootcamp - US, Canada and LatAm
Online Social Entrepreneurship Bootcamp - US, Canada and LatAm
Online Social Entrepreneurship Bootcamp - US, Canada and LatAm

Program Overview

Sustainable development challenges, a proven entrepreneurship framework and expert mentorship to design and test your solution

We provide key elements social entrepreneurs need to solve a problem: Customer discovery, a proven framework for rapidly designing and testing a solution, access to top advisors and an accomplished peer group of mission-driven founders. Participants have 3 hours of interactive virtual workshops (9 am to 12 pm Eastern Time) with expert mentors on Tuesdays, 1-1 check-ins and community events on a weekly basis.

Week 1 - 2 - Program Introduction, Team Building, Customer Discovery

Program orientation and introduction.

Understand key attributes of high performing teams. Build your team and define your vision, values and culture.  

Apply “Disciplined Entrepreneurship” and “Jobs to be done” frameworks to identify your target customer and understand what triggers them to buy.

Week 3 - 4 - Solution Design

Apply “Disciplined Entrepreneurship” to define your value proposition, core and competitive positioning.

Run a “Sprint” to design and test your solution with customers.

Week 5 - 6 - Customer acquisition, Business Model and Social Impact

Apply HubSpot’s Flywheel framework to design your customer acquisition strategy.

Design your business model to maximize value creation for customers.

Develop your Theory of Change with clear impact metrics to communicate your social impact with all stakeholders.

Week 7 - 8 - Pitching, Fundraising and OKRs

Understand your startup stage to identify best-fit investors.

Set objectives and key results (OKRs) to reach your next milestones and manage your startup.

Craft and design your investor pitch deck.

Pitch your startup to the innovation community and receive investor feedback.

What participants say?

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Vedant Kanoi
CEO, FoodCloud
It was a great experience. What I found most helpful for my team was applying HubSpot’s flywheel framework and the product planning that we did. I loved using the OKRs framework to help us plan, set goals and prioritize. To be in a learning environment was a fun experience that we don't get to do very often. I feel my team members are growing and we want professional growth for them. Whoever we interacted with at any given point has been extremely supportive which is much appreciated.
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Ida Lehtinen
Marketing Manager, e.pop AI
I really enjoyed the program. All the sessions working with the team, applying the frameworks to our startup and getting 1-1 feedback gave us clarity on our value proposition, unit economics and marketing plan. The startup templates were easy to use and helped us better understand our LTV and COCA. We loved the diverse content including workshops on Business Model, HubSpot’s Flywheel and Emotional Leadership.
Social Entrepreneurship Online Bootcamp 2021
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Muhammad Lila
Founder & CEO, Goodable
One of the biggest draws for me in terms of joining BonBillo’s Bootcamp was that I knew what I didn't know. I didn't know how to build a customer acquisition strategy, how to value our startup or how to fundraise. Since BonBillo’s program, we’ve launched the Goodable app and TV channel, raised a successful seed round and formed partnerships to scale. I thoroughly enjoyed the Bootcamp curriculum and the workshop slides have kind of turned into a textbook for us that we reference as we grow - even at the seed stage.
Social Entrepreneurship Online Bootcamp 2021
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Jaan Makhijani
Marketing Associate, e.pop AI
What I think was the most valuable for ePOP AI was applying the program frameworks. The OKRs session helped us to set specific goals as a team. Katelyn Bourgoin’s Customer Discovery workshop helped us realize that we need to utilize primary research instead of relying on secondary data. We’ve gained customer insights and are able to market better thanks to customer interviews.
Social Entrepreneurship Online Bootcamp 2021

Pricing

The program fees are $799 for the Online Social Entrepreneurship Bootcamp which includes over $50,000 in partner perks.

University offers, payment plans and scholarships of up to 40% are available.

Who is the program for?

Entrepreneurs and innovators solving problems in sustainability, education, job creation, healthcare, food and nutrition, wellness, financial inclusion, gender equality and diversity.

University students interested in exploring a social impact startup.

University Incubator and Accelerator Programs - The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has partnered with BonBillo to facilitate their Impact Incubator.

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Apply a proven entrepreneurship curriculum, receive expert mentorship and join a community of accomplished founders.

Dates

February 21st to April 21st 2023

Pricing

$799 - University offers, payment plans and scholarships of up to 40% are available.

Applications

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