Mentorship Programs - Bridge for Billions

The Leap

The most complete remote incubation program for early-stage founders

1:1 mentorship hours

Program duration

months

Program format

Online

Program fee

$525

USD

In 3 monthly installments | No equity taken

The Leap is perfect for you if you need…

Support from a personal mentor as you build your startup from the ground-up
Help to structure your ideas and define the starting point of your business project as you find product-market fit
A step by step model that provides discipline as you build your business plan and develop a viable startup
A community of like-minded founders to connect and share the experience with
A flexible and online program that adapts to your lifestyle
A fair price for entrepreneurship support and high quality resources

Next program starts 11-March

Apply by

18-February

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What will your learning process look like through The Leap?

The 3-month disciplined-based entrepreneurship program divided into 8 business modules helps you go from business idea to market in a short period of time.

Value Proposition

Make sure you define your true value. Your Value Proposition is the #1 thing that explains why people would be interested in your offer. It’s a promise that clearly communicates the benefits of your product or service.

Get to the root of the problems you’re trying to solve
Identify and group your customers into segments
Do customer discovery interviews and research
Estimate your market size and build a market opportunity graph
Write concrete value proposition statements

Meet your peers at Basecamp, an Intro session where you’ll talk about how to be resilient, develop tenacity and how to learn from failure as you start your journey.

Competition Map

Understanding your competitors is essential to finding your spot in the market. Think you don’t have much competition? Think again! Take on new perspectives and build a Competition Map that will clearly show where you stand.

Define the attributes that you and other solutions compete on
Identify competitors you didn’t know you had
See how you stand out among the crowd
Discover where you can improve your offering

Meet fellow founders at The Climb, a space where you’ll talk about self-care and well-being. Being an entrepreneur is hard!

Stakeholder Map

Building a company 100% by yourself is almost impossible. Every day you’ll decide: should I do it myself? Delegate? Outsource? Building relationships with your partners, supporters, suppliers and, of course, a great team is key.

Identify all different types of partners and collaborators
Understand the possible value exchange you can have with each one
Decide what you should do in-house and what you should let others do
Explore your distribution channel options and choose the best ones
Create a map of the ecosystem of partners around your business

Business Model & Marketing

How do you plan to sustain your business and capture your customers’ attention? We’ll help you understand what business model is right for you and start planning your marketing activities.

Learn about different business models
See how your business model could (or should) differ per customer segment
Use design thinking to choose the best one(s) for you
Understand the basics of a marketing funnel and create your own
Estimate your cost to acquire a customer

Meet your peers at The Hike, a session to go over what leadership means and how motivating others and team building is key to reach your peak.

Pricing & Business Viability

Are you leaving money on the table by being too shy with prices, or overcharging and losing business opportunities? We’ll help you figure it out by setting your first price point and determining a pricing strategy.

Learn about different pricing strategies and choose yours
Compare your competitors’ price points and strategies
Do customer discovery to understand their willingness to pay
Learn and use a pricing methodology to determine a price point
Estimate your customers’ lifetime value

Connect with other founders at The Bonfire, a session to learn and work on your mission and vision, how to apply it on your day to day and learn the basics of the OKRs model to set objectives for you and your team.

Financial Projections

We make it easy even if you’re allergic to numbers. Get a step by step handle on all of your financial needs. Month by month, year by year, you’ll be able to estimate your expenses and revenue as you start and build your company.

Determine the funds you’ll need to launch
Project the expenses you’ll have in your first years of operation
Plan for the team you’ll need and their salaries as you grow
Understand the sales targets you’ll need to reach
Account for what it costs you to produce your product or service

Meet your cohort at The Bridge, a checkpoint to learn about time management and prioritization, how to be resourceful, develop a hacking mentality and train creativity.

Impact Plan

Changing the world we live in? Building an Impact Plan will help you clarify what system you’re a part of and how you’re trying to influence it. You will also measure the impact you’re actually having on your customers, certain beneficiaries, your sector, or even the world.

Map the system you work within and the elements that currently govern it
Show how you want to change what’s happening within it
Craft your mission and vision statements
Identify if you are working on any of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals
Define how you will measure your impact and track results

Growth Plan

Once you start your business, you’ll have to constantly adjust priorities to make sure you’re spending your time on the right things. Having solid, measurable objectives is a great way to align with your team and stay on track.

Put your long term goals in writing and draft a plan to reach them
Identify your company’s values
Determine the KPIs you’ll track overtime (Key Performance Indicators)
Set milestones to help you reach your goals
Identify and plan for future risks

Close the program knowing that you have a viable business plan surrounded by your fellow founders in The Peak, a space where you’ll learn about communication, storytelling and personal branding.

Now you have a go-to-market plan and have the skills needed to take on any challenge!

Make sure to share and grow with The Community, use the space to seek advice, ask for help and connect with other like-minded entrepreneurs.
Attend Pitch Practice Meetup and get comfortable as you pitch. Don’t worry! This is a space to make mistakes and lose the fear.
Join our Global Investors Network training on seed-stage investment. Learn what it is, understand what investors want to see and prepare for your own fundraising.

Week 1 & 2

Value Proposition

Get to the root of the problems you’re trying to solve
Identify and group your customers into segments
Do customer discovery interviews and research
Estimate your market size and build a market opportunity graph
Write concrete value proposition statements

Meet your peers at Basecamp, an Intro session where you’ll talk about how to be resilient, develop tenacity and how to learn from failure as you start your journey.

Week 3 & 4

Competition Map

Define the attributes that you and other solutions compete on
Identify competitors you didn’t know you had
See how you stand out among the crowd
Discover where you can improve your offering

Meet fellow founders at The Climb, a space where you’ll talk about self-care and well-being. Being an entrepreneur is hard!

Week 5

Stakeholder Map

Identify all different types of partners and collaborators
Understand the possible value exchange you can have with each one
Decide what you should do in-house and what you should let others do
Explore your distribution channel options and choose the best ones
Create a map of the ecosystem of partners around your business

Week 6

Business Model & Marketing

How do you plan to sustain your business and capture your customers’ attention? We’ll help you understand what business model is right for you and start planning your marketing activities.

Learn about different business models
See how your business model could (or should) differ per customer segment
Use design thinking to choose the best one(s) for you
Understand the basics of a marketing funnel and create your own
Estimate your cost to acquire a customer

Meet your peers at The Hike, a session to go over what leadership means and how motivating others and team building is key to reach your peak.

Week 7 & 8

Pricing & Business Viability

Learn about different pricing strategies and choose yours
Compare your competitors’ price points and strategies
Do customer discovery to understand their willingness to pay
Learn and use a pricing methodology to determine a price point
Estimate your customers’ lifetime value

Week 9 & 10

Financial Projections

Determine the funds you’ll need to launch
Project the expenses you’ll have in your first years of operation
Plan for the team you’ll need and their salaries as you grow
Understand the sales targets you’ll need to reach
Account for what it costs you to produce your product or service

Meet your cohort at The Bridge, a checkpoint to learn about time management and prioritization, how to be resourceful, develop a hacking mentality and train creativity.

Week 11

Impact Plan

Map the system you work within and the elements that currently govern it
Show how you want to change what’s happening within it
Craft your mission and vision statements
Identify if you are working on any of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals
Define how you will measure your impact and track results

Week 12

Growth Plan

Put your long term goals in writing and draft a plan to reach them
Identify your company’s values
Determine the KPIs you’ll track overtime (Key Performance Indicators)
Set milestones to help you reach your goals
Identify and plan for future risks

Don’t forget!

Now you have a go-to-market plan and have the skills needed to take on any challenge!

Make sure to share and grow with The Community, use the space to seek advice, ask for help and connect with other like-minded entrepreneurs.
Attend Pitch Practice Meetup and get comfortable as you pitch. Don’t worry! This is a space to make mistakes and lose the fear.
Join our Global Investors Network training on seed-stage investment. Learn what it is, understand what investors want to see and prepare for your own fundraising.

Got any questions?

Book a 20 min. one-to-one session with our The Leap Incubation Manager Sebastián, to get all your questions answered. At a time that fits your agenda!

Real mentoring focused 100% on your startup

You’ll meet mentors and mentors will meet you. Chat with different mentors before committing to one. Check who’s got what your startup needs and who you’d prefer to work with. Chemistry matters!

Lalit Gautam

Co-founder Sensegrass

Forbes 30 Under 30

MIT 35 Under 35 Innovator Latam 2020

I am an Entrepreneur turned Mentor turned Investor and I know the real problems any founder faces during the journey.

Yonah Welker

Tech For Good Architect & Influencer

Expert, Evaluator European Commission

Entrepreneur In Residence (EIR) 500 Startups

Mentor Singularity University

Mentor Ashoka

Driven by my personal journey, my mission is to co-create products, solutions and ecosystems which reimagine ability, learning, wellbeing and experiences such as democratization, decentralization, personalization.

Izabela Serowik

Analyst in Technology Leadership Development Program at Johnson & Johnson

Co-founder at Pare

I enjoy mentoring others on a similar path who may be just a few steps behind, where my experiences can benefit them, especially in today’s complex and continuously changing environments of business, technology, and social responsibility.

Mayte Varela

Professional business Mentors & Consultant

Startup Mentor Youth Business Spain

I help entrepreneurs and start-ups to get their product or service, in the market as soon as possible. Being a mentor in Bridge for Billions has been a magnificent journey. I’m very proud to be part of this community.

Accessible pricing is part of our DNA

USD

EUR

$525

*In 3 easy installments of $175/month

The price includes:

No equity taken

18 hours of personalized mentorship during the whole program to get external input
3-month remote program made of 8 business modules to work on your real go-to-market plan
Biweekly soft-skill checkpoints with your peers to grow as an entrepreneur while build your startup
Pitch Practice Meetup: A session to make mistakes, forget what comes next, get stuck and practice your pitch in front of real people
Life-time access to the community of founders and mentors from all around the world

Perks

Check our perks library and get discounts for top-notch services for your startup like Google Cloud Services, Taskade, Mailjet, Hubspot for Startups, Amazon Web Services and Stripe to name a few.

Investment Readiness

Workshops and resources to understand what’s a seed-stage investment and how it fits you.

Bet on your business and apply to The Leap!

Applications now open!

Fill out your application, we want to get to know you and your project better.
Share your motivations, needs and goals.
Check that the program fits your needs as an early-stage founder.
Once you’re accepted to the program, confirm your spot by adding your credit card details.

Hurry up! We only have 30 spots per cohort.

Step 1

Matching process

You choose your mentor and the mentor chooses you during the matching process.
Get ready and meet mentors from all types of backgrounds.
Let us know who you’d prefer to work with during your incubation program.
Mentors will also send us a ranking to let us know who they prefer to work with.

Step 2

Welcome session

Meet other founders from your cohort during the welcome session.
Meet your incubation manager. They will help and guide you through the process.
We’ll explain the nitty gritty details of the program and answer any questions.

Check the full program

Step 3

Are you ready?

We created The Leap, our online incubation program, to be the most accessible and inclusive program in the ecosystem so that all entrepreneurs would feel welcome.

No matter your area of innovation, country, socioeconomic level or gender, if you want to develop a sustainable solution for yourself and those around you then you’ve come to the right place.

Welcome to The Leap, we’re here for you.

The Bridge for Billions Team

What questions do you have about The Leap Program?

Our experience lets us know that each entrepreneur has its own needs and obstacles. Our main goal is to deliver the best results to you, and if you need our help, you can reach out to us.

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What is The Leap incubation program?

We provide different incubation programs, 100% online, that help early-stage entrepreneurs to structure and develop their entrepreneurial projects. All our programs provide:

3-month access to our learn-by-doing proven methodology.
18h of one to one mentorship with your personal support.
“Checkpoints”, online meetings with your cohort and our team to deepen the work on each critical aspect of your business and leverage the collective intelligence of the group.
Lifetime access to a community of fellow founders and mentors.
Participation in the cohort award to compete for seed capital.

For more details, consult our full program description here.

What kind of entrepreneurs do you support?

We support early-stage entrepreneurs that either have a solid idea they’re passionate about pursuing, an MVP/prototype with little business structure, or an early-stage company. Most of our cohorts are open to all sectors, but some are sector-based, so make sure you check the program details before applying. We have entrepreneurs from 57+ countries and the program is 100% online, so you can easily join from anywhere in the world. As of today, the program is available in English and Spanish (French to be released soon).

What is exactly the role of the mentor?

Your mentor is your guide throughout the program, someone who can understand the ins and outs of your business and, week after week, help you validate your strategy for each critical stage, from better targeting your customers to having a 3 years growth plan. Mentors support you through collaboration on the platform as well as in-person video chats once a week.

What technology will I need for the program?

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 Checkpoints and online mentors calls via video conference.

How can we get funded after The Leap ends?

We don’t directly invest in any business that takes part in The Leap program. However, all throughout the program we connect you to prize opportunities, competitions, and other opportunities for funding. We also prepare you for fundraising through expert masterclasses and, provided you have finished the incubation program, you can be connected to investors from our network based on geography, sector, and other criteria.

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