Pop App Shop

POWER-UP YOUR ENTREPRENEURIAL ECOSYSTEM

HOW DOES A POP APP SHOP HELP YOUR COMMUNITY?

For Early Entrepreneurs

• Solves for the lack of technical know-how and limited financial resources. • They will be able to build, launch, and learn from their product earlier in the startup process instead of after they've learned how to fundraise. • Narrow the gap between prototype to go-to-market product • Make sales sooner. • Buy yourself time to raise money and delay the urgency to hire for technical talent. • Ability to manage their software independently long after their engagement with us

For Accelerators & Incubators

• Gain increased access to applicants that are now significantly further along in the product development process, and are now armed with more practical data points from having a working product. • Less pressure on your organization to produce larger funding for traditional software development for your startups. • An accelerator can support 5-7 startups working with us at the investment of what it would previously cost to support just one startup’s traditional development needs • Attract more applicants that have been previously deterred by the skill & resource gap • Nurture earliest idea stage applicants without overextending your organization’s resources

For More Tech Advanced Startups

• Build base features so your engineering team can focus on inventing new things. • Learn what your potential CTO or engineering team’s expertise should be. • Create features or products that can work with your existing custom developed software and other third-party apps to maximize human and financial resources.

For Women, Youth, and Underrepresented Groups

Create and learn in a proven non-intimidating space, with people that understand their experience, and encourage vulnerability in order to shift mindsets towards being open to learning.

WHAT DO OUR PARTNERS SAY?

"Many aspiring and early-stage entrepreneurs struggle with getting off the ground their ideas. Being able to build a functioning prototype in just a few days, with minimal costs, allows them to rapidly test their assumptions, collect real customers data and ultimately iterate to improve their solution. This rapid product development cycle gives them a edge when applying for an incubator program, looking for financing and deploying the commercial solution. The no-code tools are a very powerful set of integrated and specialized tools and Design Off the Boat is crucial in helping entrepreneurs without technical background navigate the world of no-code and build their prototypes." MIRELA PIRLEA
Lead Partnerships Innovation and Entrepreneurship,
Ontario-Atlantic-West Canada, Desjardins Group

WHAT DOES THE INVESTMENT STRUCTURE LOOK LIKE?

There are different ways that organizations can engage with us depending on the needs of your entrepreneurs:

Organization-Led

• Fully-sponsor their X number of entrepreneurs • Match their entrepreneur’s investment (ex. founder cover’s half the cost, org covers balance) • Book us to stay for X time and pre-buy Y base apps

Entrepreneurs Invest

• Entrepreneurs will shoulder full amount • Entrepreneurs can sign up for training to learn how to do it

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