The program itself is free of charge. However, we do require chosen participants to pay a deposit of €100. This is returned on completion of the program, which includes:

• Approximately 80% attendance 
• Price and competition matrix
• Your validation Pitch
• The final Pitch

The Spark Program is built of a combination of the entrepreneurial theory combined with strong coaching and doing- based approach.

You can expect to get both theoretical and practical support for founding and running your business/start-up. You can also expect to be part of a community that believes in you, and where all the topics of being a founder and finding your way as an entrepreneur can be honestly discussed. In addition to workshop-based coaching, you’ll also be supported by bi-weekly group coaching sessions where you can get support for your journey. Last but not least you will receive coaching in resilience and mindset, which are all integral parts in succeeding as a fresh business owner.

First, we expect active participation in the workshop sessions, group coaching and commitment to show up and put in the effort that is needed to build your business.

You’ll be supported to get out there in real life in the effort to find your target customers, form relationships early on with them and develop your business based on a customer-centric approach. Sometimes these kinds of steps can seem challenging, especially when done for the first time – but this is why the program is here, to guide you through the process of founding and setting up your business for success.

By the end of the program, we expect our participants to: 

• Deliver us their idea validation roadmap
• Deliver a well put together business pitch 

We will of course be supporting you fully in taking those steps.

The Shortcut Spark Program is one-of-a-kind, a meaningful, practical, and intentional program that is designed to pull the curtains back on the startup ecosystem, by offering entrepreneurial training, space and practical methods to test out your business idea in a real life. It is one of the most thorough early-stage programs in Finland and has a proven track record of new founded companies out of the program.

In addition to the core entrepreneurial skills, we focus on building your sales, product building, pricing, communication, business set up, and accounting skills with the aim of helping you to found and run your start-up dream. 

To set up our participants for success, we will also coach them in the confidence and resiliency needed to succeed. It is the first program of its kind built by women for women and one of the only few focused on the very early stage of entrepreneurship.