Do you want to improve your business model, validate your solution, design it, and structure your organization to take off?
Count on our expertise in managing a Top 10 Accelerator in Europe. Join a 3-month adventure and grow your business.
The best startup will win the 5.000€ prize!
about
Beta Start – Tourism is a 3-month pre-acceleration program designed to support entrepreneurs in better structuring their business.
Whether you have your project thought through, you built a prototype or you actually have a startup in the tourism industry, this program will help you validate your hypotheses through prototypes and initial product versions – proposing, testing, and structuring your revenue models and cost structures, not to mention the construction of its presentations to clients and investors.
In the end, on Demo Day, you have the opportunity to show your potential as a business and receive feedback from potential customers and investors.
who we are looking for:
Startups in pre-seed or seed stages
benefits
Design a bolder, client-oriented business model with a product-led growth
Gather go-to-market evidences about your solution strengths
Learn by doing, grow by testing
Turn all this leveraging experience into a killer pitch
No bullshit involved, let’s work for real
Get a chance to win €5000 prize for the best project!
program timeline
After submission and selection, get ready for:
Application Open
Fill out the application form and share more about yourself and your team. Applications are open until 20 June
Selection results
01. Validation
Validation principles
Lean Methodologies: Put aside your beliefs and validate your assumptions and business visions.
(Masterclasses | Workshops | Individual Business Sessions)
Intermission #1
3 weeks
No Lectures: It’s time for entrepreneurs to put in practice what they’ve learned in the Validation Phase.
(Individual Online Business Session)
02. Products
Product principles
Insights to Product: Entrepreneurs will transform their validated assumptions into prototypes and products while using tools that will allow them to learn through Customer Interactions.
(Workshops | Individual Business Session)
Intermission #2
3 weeks
No Lectures: It’s time for the true test. The startups will launch their MVPs and measure the only opinion that matters: clients! During this week we will help them to test messaging, distribution channels and measure reception.
(Individual Online Business Session)
03. Business case
Business principles
Strategy Principles: Building a Structured Business Case and Financial Projections
Pitch Practice: Entrepreneurs develop a pitch strategy and practice its presentation.
(Workshops | Individual Business Session | Individual Pitch Practice Session)
Intermission #3
3 weeks
No Lectures: There is only one secret for the perfect pitch – practice, practice, practice – it’s time for the Startups to learn how to present themselves and to show the results to future partners and to those who support them.
(Individual Online Business Session)
04. Pitch
Demo day
25 November | 1 day
Show the results of your work to future partners and to those who support you!
Next Steps and Priorities.
rules of participation
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Participation to Beta Start – Tourism is entirely free. This program is supported by Turismo de Portugal and produced by Beta-i.
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By registering to Beta Start – Tourism you are confirming your participation in team-activities and workshops during three months. The program will be held remotely.
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We will accept only applications coming through F6S platform.
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No equity stake involved.
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Any doubt? Contact us.
partners
expertise and organization
Beta-i
Beta-i is a collaborative innovation consultancy with global reach. We’re experts in managing corporate open innovation, pilot-oriented projects with highly-curated startups, and designing products and services alongside in-company teams. Also, we use our acceleration expertise and network to help ecosystems grow, connecting a huge network of entrepreneurs, mentors, experts, investors, and knowledge institutions to solve things that matter. That’s what we’re doing here, with Shift to Start.
main partner
Turismo de Portugal
Integrated within the Ministry of the Economy, Turismo de Portugal is the national tourism authority responsible for promotion, enhancement, and sustainability of tourism activities, aggregating within a single entity all the institutional competencies related to stimulation of tourism activities, from the supply sector to demand.
