Home – Current Programs for Startup Companies:
Ideation to Revenue – Six Month Program. Community-based program with monthly deliverables and final pitches and feedback. If you are the idea stage, this program is designed for people that are considering leaving their day jobs for a new startup. You can find more details on this program at our Meetup page.
Trajectory: 4 Week Bootcamp – Fundraising Ready/Pre-Accelerator Program. This is a four-week workshop with a small cohort of startup founders like you and includes weekly coaching from Dave. The program is designed to improve your odds of getting into Techstars, YC, Global Accelerator Network (GAN), Founder Institute (FI), programs. More info and application here.
6 Month Startup is now The Trajectory Series
6MonthStartup.com and the 6 Month Startup Program on Meetup are rebranding to the Trajectory Series at GetTrajectory.com. The series is focused on three books and programs:
- Trajectory: Startup – from Ideation to Product Market-fit
- Trajectory: Scaleup – Product Market-fit to scaleup
- Trajectory: Services – for business services firms that want to use technology company best practices
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What’s your Trajectory? Setting your trajectory is a combination of your action and activities as well as the outside forces that impact your market and business.
Dave Parker is a 5X Tech Entrepreneur, Investor, Board, and Advisory Board Member for dozens of companies. Formerly the Senior VP of Programs at UP Global (Startup Weekend + Startup America) that was purchased by Techstars in 2015. Dave helped launch Startup Week globally and served as the local Seattle director for four years. With his team, he built Startup Next and launched it globally serving as the Seattle Director. Full CV here.
Dave writes and interviews topics for Startup and technology-related companies.
Looking for a Startup Financial Model Template? Go to Venture Ready Models is a site that Dave has built out with Excell templates for the primary tech business models that he blogs about here and on the Venture Ready Models Blog.
Dave works as a Coach for startups founders and Consultant mid-market companies that are staging for funding, growth, and Exit. To learn more about Dave’s consulting practice click the ABOUT tab above for Dave’s CV.
8 Replies to “Home – Current Programs for Startup Companies:”
Dave,
Wanted to say THANKS for a great session here in Tampa tonite. You provided sound ideas and guidance that’ll really help me and my team as we continue to launch our new web venture.
Regards,
Jim
Dave,
Thanks for traveling to Tampa for the TBTF Tuesday evening. Sorry you missed your son’s ball game.
I was to be a member of the Founders class in Tampa. Your friend Mike has been an incredible mentor for me. He is a gem.
I just wanted to share what I found most profound about your presentation: “I never sign an NDA. It’s not the idea, it’s the execution.” Thank you, lesson learned.
I am revising my dinosaur business plan to an executive summary, creating my financials on a spreadsheet (instead of a chart) and make the very best, tightest ten slides of my life. Thanks.
Sincerely,
Monica Stynchula
Founder and President
Dovetail Care, Inc.
813-389-9708
Interested in incubating seeding startup in
Mobile Pay App? also Social App too competing with Facebook
Seed-money $ 10 Million,
exchange equity-stake
Hey Alex, thanks for the note. Give a look to Crunchbase. The average seed round is likely $500k-1.5. A $10m round will be later stage and would require $1.2-2m in revenue.
Dave, thanks for the article on the pitch deck. Very informative and helpful. Hadn’t known about you before but will definitely be following now.
Well. No one can say Dave does not cut to the chase.
Thank you Dave for the very fruitful boot camp at Flat6Labs Cairo. Your insights were simply priceless.
Rafeh Saleh
ConsultingPad.com
Founder & CEO
Thanks Rafeh, Glad I was invited!