Is Startupify right for you?

We've built a flight simulator for entrepreneurship so you can gain hands-on experience through practice. You learn by doing, you learn by working in real startups. The core goal of Startupify is to provide you with an opportunity to make mistakes in a non-fatal environment. It's in those times of struggle and failure that you'll learn the most.

Succeeding in startups is about perserverance and moving forward despite the roadblocks you will face. Do you hide away and perfect your technical product rather than risking negative feedback from a potential customer? No way .. that feedback is gold! Our mentors focus on heightening your ability to identify your next roadblock and arm you with the skills you need to tackle it head-on.

"Fire feeds on obstacles", Marcus Aurelius

Our hands-on, practitioner based program puts you to work on a diverse set of real business challenges over the course of four months. We partner with real businesses to identify specific pains and challenges for you to tackle. Those real pains are your roadblocks to overcome with the support of our mentors.

  • Pitch Free Leave your startup ideas, projects and pitches behind. If we're incubating anything, it's YOU! Our model is built around the belief that project and team formation should occur as late as is responsibly possible.

  • Mentor Based Access to our business mentors will provide you with valuable lessons and insight into Canadian entrepreneurship. Our education mentors will ensure you are soaking every ounce of learning out of your 4 months.

  • Experiential We will not be teaching any software development, your years of experience are your ticket in the door. We will bury you in experiences within, and around, real business creation. Those experiences will help you, as a hacker, learn to hustle.

Applications are open! If you have questions give Brydon a call (see below). For more info about the program keep an eye on our blog posts as well as our email list!

Meet the Mentors

We’ve assembled a diverse team of startup veterans with real battle scars to prove their commitment to this game, enabling you to jump start your startup experience. They’ve all taken their shots at creating something out of nothing. Yes, some of your mentors may be looking to hire someone like you in the near future.

Curriculum

Our program is seventeen weeks long. Applications are open for the next Startupify cohort that starts this June, 2013. If you have questions give Brydon a call (see below).

Plenty of smart folks have read all of the books and blogs, taken the online courses yet still fail to build a profitable business. Our curriculum is focused on the soft skills required to be successful in startups. You’ll be writing, speaking, selling, phoning and talking to potential customers and more. You’ll be doing the work required to justify the costs of building a product before you build it!

“If we want more entrepreneurs, how about we teach them to be, you know, entrepreneurial: self-reliant, innovative, customer-focused, not a bunch of browners trotting off to Ottawa for a pat on the head?”, Andrew Coyne

The core of our program has you forming into three person teams and working on real projects with our industry partners in one month bursts. By the end of this experience, you will have worked directly on delivering four projects and collaborated across upwards of twenty. Those diverse and varied projects will expose you to businesses at all stages of ideation, discovery, development and scaling.

“Studying entrepreneurship without doing it is like studying the appreciation of music without listening to it”, Seth Godin

While we don’t adhere strictly to any process or book, all our teachings are heavily influenced by Steve Blank and the entire Lean Startup movement.

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If selected, you’ll be one of fifteen like minded folks chasing the same exciting goal of working in a great startup. All fifteen in our program participate together in all project work. This includes all evening and weekend course and project sections.

Full Time (5 spots available)

Our full time cohort is committed and burning their ships at the shore. The tuition for full time developers is $4000 total for the four month program, which is equivalent to $1000 per month. What’s included in that is the following:

  • A full time coworking desk at ThreeFortyNine Coworking, with 24/7 access, for six months. This includes the four months of our program plus two months after program completion, value of $1800 +HST.

  • All group, course, and project curriculum.

  • One full day every week of in-person mentorship. These days will include two or more of our mentors working directly with our five person full time cohort.

  • Optional reduced price ticket on our Startup Train to the International Startup Festival.

Part Time (10 spots available)

Our part time cohort offers you a chance to dip a few toes into startup life. The tuition for part time developers is $2000 total for the four month program, equivalent to $500 per month. Our part-time developers have no mandatory activities during core business hours. That allows them to use that time to freelance or continue working at their full time jobs.

  • Use of the shared space at ThreeFortyNine Coworking outside of core business hours.

  • All group, course, and project curriculum.

  • Optional reduced price ticket on our Startup Train to the International Startup Festival.

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Location

We operate out of ThreeFortyNine Coworking in one of Canada's most livable cities Guelph, Ontario. Guelph is located in between Toronto and Kitchener-Waterloo and accessible by highway 401, Via Rail, and Go Transit. Being a university city, sublets and short term rentals can be found but you should just move here if you don't live here already!

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