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BRANDSPRING : Go from Idea to Prototype in 4 Weeks!
Have that idea you’ve been working on for years or one that you just haven’t started?
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Get ready for 4 weeks of hands on, fast paced sessions designed to develop, test and validate your idea. For the next 30 days, you’ll be turning your idea into a viable business venture while, industry experts lead you over a few major start-up hurdles.
1Kick Start Big Ideas You have an idea for a product, mobile application, non-profit or other business and want to jump start it into motion. We have many of the branding, legal, strategy and engineering partners to help you make that happen.
2Keep Your Day Job We know you have a day job, family, classes and other daytime commitments to keep you from building your dream full-time. That’s OK. Don’t quit your day job, work with us nights and weekends to develop your idea!
3Test & Prove Ideas You may have the best idea since the energy drink, but will it work? Will it sell? In 4 weeks we will refine your idea, rapidly prototype it and complete market validation so you are staged for series A funding or commercialization.
Design Thinking & IdeationYou will be stretching, molding, expanding and pushing your idea to the limits. You’ll learn how to detach emotionally from your idea in order to creatively find the best possible solutions.
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Patents, Trademarks & Legal StuffOur legal partners explain when and how to protect your idea, registering the right type of business, licensing or selling your product, how shares/stock work and setting up partnerships.
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Branding & Customer DevelopmentGet familiar with the branding process. Utilize previous weeks design thinking and trademark knowledge to define your product to potential customers. Begin logo and visual elements design.
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Publicity, Social Media & MarketingEven with the best possible idea, customers don’t just line up to buy it. Learn where to get free publicity, how to successfully exploit social media and how to engage potential customers.
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Final Presentations & PitchesThis is not a typical week. You will spend most of your time creating a presentation, finalizing your most recent prototype iteration and preparing all your results from the program for a live pitch.
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What goes on when your not in session?You’re connecting with our development partners to create early iterations of your idea, running focused street trials with potential customers and applying our sessions in actual settings.
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Meet The BRANDSPRING Mentors & Guest Advisors
What Next? After You Graduate The Program?
What You Leave With :
- In four weeks you will have been immersed in nearly every aspect of basic start-up practices and rapid product validation. You will leave with a proper strategy to use as a guide as you move forward beyond this program.
- Your idea is now a validated beta prototype. The prototype is still just a proof of concept used to demonstrate to investors, manufacturer and other business development channels. You will still need refinement, industrial design and possibly engineering before it is production ready.
- Your idea is no longer a “whacha-ma-gig thing”, it has a name, an audience, a brand personality and voice.
- Through the weeks you have worked with teams of industry savants, been introduced to expert mentors who are willing to help and learned where to find specific resource that can will further grow your new venture.
Where Do I Go Next? :
- Don’t loose steam. Just because the program is over does not mean slow down. You need to be persistent and aggressive develop your start-up. Continue building a team, network and vendor chain that will work along side you as you grow.
- Most of our mentors run businesses dedicated to their specific field. Depending on the stage you are at, connecting with them on a professional level will be highly beneficial to your success.
- Every session, The Collide Factory core team selects a few of the most promising new ideas to strategically develop beyond the programs. Those companies typically partner with us through the entire commercialization and distribution process. Not all ideas qualify for this long-term development program.
THE TECH 60 : One month of technology start-ups!
Have that idea you’ve been working on for years or one that you just haven’t started?
We’ve started a race to discover and fund the next 60 tech super-companies. Once a year the hots techpreneurs, big thinkers, developers, designers and strategist will converge on Central Florida for an entire month packed with tech events that will blow your mind.
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Fresh new ideas, pitch to find the most popular and viable start-up.
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Seconds for each to prove their tech idea is worthy to be developed.
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Hours every weekend packed with guest speakers and workshops.
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Days to develop each tech idea into an investment ready beta launch.
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Weeks of operational funding for growth awarded to the top teams.
WWW.TECH60.COM The TECH60 website will be coming soon!
A race to discover, develop and fund the next 60 top tech start-ups! Tech 60 Summit is not a hyped up weekend for geeks to just hang out and haphazardly through together teams or founders. It’s not just a conference with a bunch of glitz and glam or geek training camp. TECH 60 summit is the worlds fair of tech events. It’s a purpose built, intense month designed to gather creatives, developers and business minds who have what it takes to originate from scratch, game changing web or mobile ideas, that will become the next 60 top tech companies.
It’s Like A Giant Geek Moshpit!
Designers Every tech start-up needs design, brand development and funky t-shirts to pass out at next years SXSW. If your a designer your skill will be a hot commodity.
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Developers Let’s get to work. We don’t care which of the geek languages you speak (html, php, java, ruby .net…) as long as you collaborate well and know what you’re doing.
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Strategists You’ve got the special sauce that makes a tech startup a worthy venture. We’ll need your expertise with legal, positioning, marketing, Ideation, UX and more.
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Everyone You know who you are. The publicity hounds, branding brains, marketers, video/photo peeps and everyone else who bring products to market.
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COLLIDE FACTORY : Student inventors & entrepreneurs
Build your idea or prototype with us every Wed at 6:30pm
When you’re young, imagination runs wild, everything is possible and the world is just waiting to discover you. We get it and want to give students every tool, resource and opportunity to develop their ideas into successful ventures.
If you’re a student read this! We know what its like to be sitting in class, daydreaming about your big idea, project, event or business concept. Nothing is more important than getting it ready, sharing with your family and friends and looking for a little extra money to get you to the next step. Your passionate about your project but somehow the people around you just don’t get it, they don’t think the same as you and their dreams just aren’t as big as yours are. That’s why we made The Collide Factory, to connect you with others that have big dreams and want to make them a reality. You, emerging thinkers and entrepreneurs are the lifeblood of the next generation and Collide Factory will provide you with the tools, resources, mentors and manpower to become the leaders of your generation. Join us every Wednesday at 6:30pm as we create, share and build your dream.
If you’re an old person read this. We need your support. The youth of today are the leaders of tomorrow and we believe those leaders need to be thinkers, dreamers and entrepreneurs rather than the next vapid reality TV star. Here’s an opportunity to mentor, educate and give encouragement to those emerging young adults who are ambitious and self motivated. Collide Factory is a hands on workshop, dedicated to demonstrating the steps to creating a business or product, being financially smart and leading teams of people. Kids ages 13 to 19 meet at the Collide Factory once a week to socialize with business leaders, mentors and peers. Each attendee is placed on a team relative to their skill set and age. These teams think as a group, solve hypothetical situations applicable to real world business problems and work together on Collide Factory team challenges.
