Berlin Startup Academy (BSA) is Berlin’s boutique, independent Startup Accelerator. In a 3-month, 2 day/week program involving 130+ of Berlin’s most experienced CEOs and investors, BSA helps to either turn an idea into a startup or to bring entrepreneurial drive to your enterprise. You join as a guy with an idea and you leave as the CEO of your own company. BSA accepts founders who may or may not have a complete team or prototype yet, helping you with team completion, idea evaluation, and access to the Berlin ecosystem. The program will cover, among other things, the following points: - Conceiving a reasonable, fundable, profitable, convincing digital business idea - Defining and proving a thorough, bottom-up business model - Pitching well to customers, investors, co-founders - Defining a vision and translating it into company values - Legal setup and options, Intellectual Property, and Public Funding - Professional sales, networking and international relations - Business analytics and „VC rules“ - Working and partnering profitably with Corporate Germany. To be clear: Berlin Startup Academy is not a VC; we can’t guarantee you any funding. What we can do, however, is to put you in the best position possible to make a convincing pitch to investors.