We empower entrepreneurs based in Italy to grow their business ideas.
The program offers a structured online curriculum and active learning pedagogy to help you get clarity on the fundamentals of your business, review your business model, define your financial projections, create a growth plan for your venture and much more.
The output will be a business plan document that you can use to pitch your venture in competitions or seek support, financial or otherwise.
1700+ entrepreneurs from 70 countries have gone through the program!
You’ll be partnered with a professional to personally guide you so that your project grows in the right direction.
Become a part of a supportive community of founders from 70 countries that share resources and harness challenges together.
The platform offers a learn-by-doing approach inspired by MIT's Disciplined Entrepreneurship and you'll get to validate your business plan and generate an executive summary in PDF.
Collaborate from anywhere at any time through our online platform; no barriers, limits, or excuses; just an internet connection.
Access to expert masterclasses + more than 30K in discounts on HubSpot, Amazon WS, Google Suite, MailJet, IBM...
And now… What?
Tell us more about you and your start-up by applying below. Our team will assess your selection into the program.
We will review all the applications and we will select 10 start-ups to participate in this edition of the program.
If selected, you will be invited to an onboarding to the program and session on how to select your mentor, how to use the incubation platform, its methodology and much more.
Start the structured online incubation with weekly activities and mentorship sessions. You will have 4 months to complete the full Bridge for Billions incubation cycle, get the help of a mentor and develop an executive summary.
Our online platform allows entrepreneurs to experiment, research, and document their ideas step by step so that at the end of the program they can download their own business plan in PDF.
The more time you’re able to put in, the better the results! We’ve structured the program so that you should be able to complete all activities within 6 to 8 hours per week (including a 1h video call with your mentor), but there are always opportunities for you to go deeper and spend more time on each stage to significantly develop and validate your ideas. If you can’t commit to at least 6 hours per week over 3.5 months, this probably isn’t the program for you. You can also divide some of the work with other people on your team (if any).
You will need to be able to use a laptop or desktop computer (not tablet or smartphone) and preferably one of these browsers: Google Chrome, Safari, Firefox. We expect you to have a strong, reliable internet connection both for your online work on the platform and to participate in the mentors calls via video conference.
Bridge for Billions and Visa have partnered with the goal of bringing high-quality entrepreneurial support to European entrepreneurs from Italy and Turkey.
We believe that only by providing this program at no cost, we are truly supporting you to unleash your potential and create your solution.
We hope that our reputation speaks for itself on this topic. We treat your application & program data as confidential information. They are protected by our Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy, and your mentor will also sign a Mentorship Agreement that includes a confidentiality clause.
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