3 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
Guided by serial entrepreneurs, learn how to ideate, launch, and test a business or product idea in just two weeks.
3 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
Guided by serial entrepreneurs, learn how to ideate, launch, and test a business or product idea in just two weeks.
Course overview
Innovation Academy is an intensive two-week founder boot camp for anyone who wants to learn high-impact innovation skills by rapidly ideating, building and testing a product or business idea. The content and activities are inspired by our own entrepreneurial journey, extensive startup knowledge, and the exclusive workshops we run with Fortune 500 executives to help them build a founder mindset.
Demo Day Challenge 🏆
We are giving away 10% of our course revenue to the winner of Demo Day as seed funding to invest in their idea further beyond the 14 days (or go on a vacation with it, we won't check)
Example F500 Clients: McDonald's, HSBC, Bank of Montreal, Capgemini
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You are an intrapreneur at a large company and want to future-proof your career by gaining hands-on experience in taking an idea from 0 to 1
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You are a founder and want to accelerate and de-risk your entrepreneurial journey by learning from experienced founders
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You are an ambitious startup employee and want to supercharge your career by becoming a versatile problem solver
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You want to bounce ideas off of, learn from, and grow your network with an ambitious community of founders and innovators
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You want to build the skills to eventually launch your own startup or simply to unlock new income streams
Learn how to spot startup ideas everywhere you look
We provide the innovation frameworks that serial entrepreneurs and corporate innovation labs use today to inspire their next $1-100M+ business and product ideas. Practice it enough and spotting opportunities becomes second nature.
Experience the power of design sprints for rapid ideation and prototyping
Save both time and money by moving past prolonged indecisiveness and debates through time-boxed design sprint exercises. This process enables you to progress swiftly from strategy formulation to idea generation, prototype development, and testing, all within a matter of days.
Learn how to build an authentic, modern, and beloved brand
Learn how to establish a strong brand image to attract your first set of customers and build credibility for your early-stage idea.
Gain exposure to all the tools you'll need to launch your idea
You'll build experience using all the modern tools available to rapidly take an idea from 0 to 1. Tools use cases range from research and ideation to wireframing, prototyping and low/no-code development.
Ensure accountability by building alongside a cohort of ambitious innovators
Build your business idea alongside other innovators, reaping the benefits of collaboration, diverse perspectives, mutual support, shared resources, continuous learning, and accelerated growth.
Build your minimum viable product (MVP) and attract your first customers
By the end of the 14 days, you will create your no-code MVP landing page to launch and test your product or business idea. The goal is to showcase your idea in a compelling way for your target market and collect interest from your initial customers.
Make money by competing on demo day for the top cash prize
Yes, you read that right - you can literally walk away with more money than you spent by attending Innovation Academy. 10% of all the revenue we earn from each cohort will go towards a prize pool for demo day.
Idea to Launch in 14 Days
Kristin Swayze
Donald Koo
Bradley Hadfield
Chris Lu
Rick Pollock
Andrew Oh
Rakan Al-Shawaf
Lyn Chen
Founder at Inoki Bathhouse | Co-Founder at Onova
Helen is an ex-management consultant, founder, and viral growth marketer. She ideated, designed, and launched her DTC e-commerce company in 24 hours and amassed 150K+ social media followers within a year while working on the business part-time. She has taught and advised C-Suite leaders on how to rapidly ideate and build multi-million dollar products, as well as led global innovation sprint programs for ambitious innovators.
Co-Founder at Onova | Founder and General Partner of the Winning Together Fund
Victor is a serial entrepreneur, startup investor, and high stakes poker player. He co-founded Onova, a 7-figure innovation consultancy helping the world's largest companies, such as McDonald's and HSBC, rapidly scale their idea generation and build innovation cultures that last. Additionally, Victor has built tech products in the B2B and B2C space, an e-commerce brand, and an investment fund investing in early-stage tech startups in edtech, fintech, insurtech, web3, future of work, and more.
5+ hours per week
Live Design Sprint Workshop and Lecture Series (Tuesdays and Thursdays)
June 13, 15, 20, 22 @ 5-7 PM EST
Each workshop is designed to be highly interactive with lecture components and design sprint exercises. During these workshops, the goal is to provide tangible learning outcomes for how to ideate and launch an idea and help you actively build your business and product idea.
Group Q&A and Mastermind Sessions (Fridays)
June 16, 23 @ 3-4 PM EST
A mastermind session is a structured and collaborative gathering aimed at fostering creativity, sharing knowledge, and providing support to each participant in their entrepreneurial journey. Participants will be placed into smaller breakouts for their mastermind session.
Demo Day - The 15th Day
June 27 @ 7-9PM EST
By the end of the two weeks, all participants will showcase their MVP and compete for the top cash prize!
Learn from Real Founders
Learn from experienced founders who have extensive knowledge in building within the startup and corporate innovation space.
Experience a High Performing Live Learning Experience
This isn't just a lecture series, you will get to experience what we put ourselves and our Fortune 500 C-Suite clients through to generate tangible outcomes.
Build Alongside a Community
Meet ambitious innovators across North America and learn from one another through our exclusive offline Slack community.
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