YOUR BRIDGE TO THE BIG LEAGUE: ACCELERATE 🏍️ TO FOLLOW-ON INVESTORS
Unleash your startup’s potential in just 100 days. Benefit from tailored weekly sprints, hands-on tech and entrepreneur coaching, and a proven strategy to escalate your success. The journey culminates in a demo day in San Francisco, connecting you to follow-on investors eager to discover innovative startups like yours. It’s intense, personalized, and designed for tangible results. Your global ascent starts here.
YOu are in charge: WHERE SCIENCE MEETS ART
Unlock insights from seasoned entrepreneurs; we are on hand to guide your startup’s innovation journey from concept to reality.
- Coaching: Tailored advice for your startup’s unique needs.
- Network Access: Connect with a vast professional network
- Proven Frameworks: Implement tested, effective scaling methodologies.
- Investor Readiness: Become equipped to attract investment.
- Collaboration: Thrive in a dynamic, innovative ecosystem with other founders.
- Benefit Credits from our partners AWS, Google etc.
Secret sauce revealed
Immerse yourself in our 100-day production 🎛️, developed and refined by StudioAlpha co-founder Prof. Dr. Andreas Ziltener over 15 years. Implemented in top-tier institutions like ETH Zurich, it’s a blend of academic rigor and entrepreneurial zest. This methodology isn’t just taught—it’s lived. It fuels our ventures and turns startup visions into tangible successes.
personalized path to growth
Every week is a personalized journey, tailored for each startup. Engage in focused 1:1 sessions with our coaches, showcasing progress, addressing queries, absorbing insights, and setting new milestones.
In the large group meetings, we intensify the learning. Renowned guest speakers illuminate the path, followed by interactive Q&A and optional cross-case discussions to broaden perspectives and refine strategies.
We dedicate 90% of the 100-day program to your startup’s unique needs, curating tools, methods, and expert consultations for targeted growth.
Get a snapshot of a startup’s customized pathway below. With continual code releases and user behavior analytics, every step is informed, intentional, and aimed at amplifying your startup’s impact. There are three live and nine remote sprints.
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Mission
Kickstart Session: Meet your peers, set goals, and dive into tools and methods essential for entrepreneurs. Embrace the intensive 100-day journey ahead and bond at a social evening event live or remote in Zurich!
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sprint
Set up your team: The hacker, the hustler and the architect. Re-define engineering stack and optimize process model. Keep going.
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sprint
Market Identification:Â Determine target groups, develop personas, map stakeholders. Group insights and peer learning to refine market entry strategies.
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sprint
Focused 1:1: Sessions for a deeper dive into each startup’s distinct landscape. Coaches and teams collaborate, scrutinizing results, setting tailored goals, and unlocking bespoke insights.
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sprint
Empathize & Analyze: Conduct shadow interviews, delve into root causes, create empathy maps. Share, learn, and refine user understanding in group sessions.
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live Sprint
Weekend deep-dive into cases, expert talks, and team bonding with sun, fun, and fondue live in the Swiss mountains in Laax.
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Sprint
Story & Statement: Craft user stories, formulate problem statements, define point of view. Group sharing for enhanced refinement and clarity.
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Sprint
Solution Exploration: Explore anti-problems, utilize buyer utility maps, apply COSTAR. Group sessions for diverse perspectives and enhanced solutions.
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SPRINT
Blueprint & Prototype: Develop service blueprints, initiate prototyping. Share insights and receive feedback in collaborative sessions.
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SPRINT
Scaling lean: Define sales funnel, metrics and promo campagnes. Improve landing page
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SPRINT
Product Finalization: Refine using Product Canvas, execute drunk tests. Collaborative feedback for product enhancement.
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Art of pitching
Master the art of pitching with expert guidance. remote Sessions include guest speakers, Q&A, and breakout pitch prep for the last time remotely.
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demo Day live
Finally, hit the stage live in San Francisco! After intensive training and 5 pitch iterations face2face, showcase your hard work and passion to potential investors. The spotlight’s on you!
YOUR GATEWAY TO GLOBAL OPPORTUNITIES
Twice a year, a demo day is held in San Francisco, where startups pitch their product-market fit to U.S.-based investors from our network.
After the completion of production and successful private equity financing after the demo day, StudioAlpha will mentor and support the startups for as long as they need it. For this, we continue to rely on our network.
The Serial Entrepreneurs Behind StudioAlpha
Our Legacy: In the budding days of the 90s and early 2000s, the technological landscape was largely uncharted. It was during these formative years that a group of visionaries emerged, each laying the groundwork for what would eventually become successful tech enterprises.Â
Among these pioneers were our esteemed partners of StudioAlpha. In an era when venture capital was sparse, these entrepreneurs were characterized by their grit, bootstrapping their ventures from the ground up. Without the safety net of external funding, they were conditioned to drive profit and fund their own growth, instilling in them a unique blend of tenacity and self-sufficiency.
StudioAlpha Network
Rooted in our Worldwebforum legacy, StudioAlpha taps into a powerful network of tech visionaries and global trailblazers. Our history translates into your startup’s future success.
Bill Wyman
Co-Founder & Former -Bassist, The Rolling Stones, London, UK
Ray O’Farrell
EVP & CTO, VMware, San Francisco, USA
Charles A. O’Reilly
Frank E. Buck Professor of Management Stanford University, Stanford, USA
Edward Tse
Founder & CEO, Gao Feng Advisory Company, Beijing, China
Zeeshan Feroz
CEO (UK), Coinbase, London, UK
Terry von Bibra
General Manager Europe, Alibaba Group, Munich, Germany
Meia Chita-Tegmark
Co-Founder, The Future of Life Institute, Boston, USA
Andréa Maechler
Member, Governing Board, Swiss National Bank, Zurich, Switzerland
Jay Simons
President, Atlassian, San Francisco, USA
Roya Mahboob
Businesswoman, Entrepreneur & CEO, Afghan Citadel & Digital Citizen Fund, New York, USA
Kirsty Nathoo
CFO & Partner, Y Combinator, San Francisco, USA
Rashik Parmar
IBM Fellow & Vice President Technology – Europe, London, UK
Michael Chui
Partner, McKinsey & Company, San Francisco, USA
Suzanne DiBianca
EVP Corporate Relations & Chief Philanthropy Officer, Salesforce, San Francisco, USA
Mark C. Thompson
CEO-Coach of Steve Jobs & Richard Branson
Wilhelm Oehl
Partner & CXO, Eight Inc, San Francisco, USA
Nancy Pfund
Founder & Managing Partner, DBL Partners, San Francisco, USA
Fumbi Chima
Global CIO, adidas, Herzogenaurach Germany
John Sculley
Former-CEO, Pepsi, Coca-Cola & Apple, New York, USA
Lars Ulrich
Co-Founder & Drummer, Metallica, San Francisco, USA
Klaus Hommels
Founder & CEO, Lakestar, Zurich, Switzerland
Sascha Zahnd
VP Global Supply Chain, Tesla, Palo Alto, USA
Jeff Eggers
Former-Principal Advisor of President Barack Obama, Federal Government of the USA, Ex-Member, Navy Seals Team, Washington, D.C., USA
Bill Barnett
Professor of Business Leadership, Strategy, & Organizations, Stanford University, Stanford, USA
Brittany Kaiser
Cambridge Analytica whistleblower & subject of Netflix Documentary “The Great Hack”, New York, USA
Urs Hölzle
SVP Engineering, Google, Mountain View, USA
David Sable
Global CEO, Y&R, New York, USA
Marian Goodell
Founding Board Member & CEO, Burning Man Project, San Francisco, USA
Kazuhiko Toyama
Managing Partner, IGPI, Industrial Growth Platform Inc, Tokyo, Japan
Carissa Carter
Director of Teaching and Learning, Stanford University, Stanford, USA
Bruce Dickinson
Businessman, Pilot, Lead Singer Iron Maiden, London, UK
Sam Rosenblum
Former Director of Business Development, Coinbase, San Francisco, USA
Steve Wozniak
Tech-Guru & Co-Founder, Apple, Cupertino, USA
Glenn Gore
Chief Architect, Amazon Web Services, Seattle, USA
James Monsees
Co-Founder and CPO, Juul, San Francisco, USA
Claude Zellweger
Director, Design, Google, San Francisco, USA
Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Inventor, World Wide Web, Cambridge, USA
Ed Catmull
Co-Founder & President, Pixar, San Francisco, USA
Backstage Pass: Unplugged
These moments, captured from previous sessions, showcase the energy, innovation, and collaboration that define our approach. Your entrepreneurial journey is not just about the destination but the transformative experiences with other founders along the way.
Empowerment Beyond Investment
- If the StudioAlpha partners are convinced of your problem-solution fit and your team, studioalpha will invest up to USD 20,000 (at a 2m valuation post-money SAFE or at yout last higher valuation) in your startup so that the founders can fully concentrate on their product and the market while they are in the studio.
- During the 100-days production we invite speakers from our network to talk remotely or live about their entrepreneurial experiences.
- StudioAlpha organizes regular virtual meetings for all startups that are in production at the same time. In these peer group meetings, the teams are supposed to exchange experiences, ask and answer questions or give each other advice.
- During and after the 100-days program, we arrange necessary contacts from our network individually for each startup team.
- Optionally, you can gain access to our partners, who will provide you with benefit credits valued at an additional USD 20,000, applicable to a $2M post-money SAFE valuation or your most recent higher valuation.
