in fact a job so daunting that I needed advice on new areas of business I hadn’t even thought of like managing the project, preventing scope creep, contracting additional experts, t’s and c’s, etc. After that job and implementing the marketing strategies I learnt, my business got so busy I couldn’t handle the number of enquiries, quotations and execution.”

“To sum up my time during Accelerate, the program helped us in five ways: to re-shape the first version of the product offering; to frame our actual value and understand our main customer segment; to learn how to sell the solutions to the market place; how to talk to larger prospects, sell and close; and to plan the next 12 months of growth to ensure we don’t scale prematurely.

“I can proudly say that my ‘real business’ started at Innovest Accelerate … it was the place where I took my idea of a business and turned it into a valid and commercial enterprise.”

The start-up experience gives the participants a precious skillset that is transferable across different industries;