HUBBA, co-working space network and startup community, has launched their first 'Pre-Accelerator' program called 'HUBBA FELLOWSHIP' with supporting of ‘Tigers@mekong’ and community partner ‘Discovery HUBBA’ to help prevent startups from making these common mistakes.

This beta version of the Pre-Accelerator Workshop is a four week program focused on Market Validation, Minimum Viable Product Development, and Immediate Product Launch.  After this initial four week beta program, subsequent programs will be expanded to eight weeks.

There are two major reasons early stage startups fail:

(1) They don’t conduct basic market validation of their ideas.

(2) They invest a lot of time, energy, and money in building a product without any user data.

With HUBBA FELLOWSHIP, over a few short weeks entrepreneurs will conduct research, generate hypotheses, develop a Minimum Viable Product, acquire early users, launch their product and collect valuable data to determine if they should continue to build on their ideas.

What the participants do during the program:

1. Engage in four weeks of workshops and office hours culminating in 10 product launches/V2 launches.
2. Learn how to conduct rigorous and honest market validation of their ideas.
3. Learn how to focus on rapidly building Minimum Viable Products that provide data and insight into the potential of their ideas.
4. Have a chance to pitch their ideas to a panel of investors for evaluation and recommendations on whether or not the investors see potential for moving forward with seed investment or an accelerator program.
5. Have access to the HUBBA Coworking space at Ekkamai (available to two members of each team)

Ten startups were selected to participate in the program.  

1. Each team should have a functional and live MVP, technical or nontechnical.
2. Each team will create a presentation deck to summarize their findings/progress.
3. Each team will complete an exit interview about their experience.

Program agenda:

Day 0 : ORIENTATION

Thursday Jan 19, 2017 7pm-8.30 pm at HUBBA Ekkamai

Day1 : IDEATION

Wednesday Jan 25, 2017 1pm-3pm at Discovery HUBBA

Day2 : RESEARCH

Thursday Jan 26, 2017 1pm-4pm at Discovery HUBBA

Day3 : MVP Development

Wednesday Feb 1,2017 1pm-4pm at Discovery HUBBA

Day4 : USER ACQUISITION

Thursday Feb 2,2017 1pm-3pm at Discovery HUBBA

Day5 : MVP TESTING

Wednesday Feb 8,2017 1pm-3pm at Discovery HUBBA

DAY6 : LAUNCH PREPARATION

Thursday Feb 9,2017 1pm-3pm at Discovery HUBBA

LAUNCH PRODUCT on Monday Feb 13, 2017

DAY 7 : ANALYSIS

Thursday Feb 16,2017 1pm-4pm

DEMO DAY

Wednesday Feb 22,2017

Now the participants are joining the program. Can't wait to see their big improvement!