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Get a Product Team in 24 hours. Get your Minimum Viable Product in 8 weeks. Transform your startup journey with our immersive Founder accelerator. Gain the skills, knowledge, and network for entrepreneurial success, from ideation to launch.

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Founder Accelerator

Ignite your startup dreams with SkillHat's 9-Week Founder Accelerator. Overcome the pain of limited resources, lack of a team, and uncertainty.

Validate your idea, develop a robust business model, get your own product team and launch your Minimum Viable Product (MVP).

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Research
Gain customer insights
Understand your audience
Validate your idea
Prototype
Get feedback from users
Refine your idea
Discover what works
build
UI/UX design
Develop your MVP
Quality testing
Launch
Go-to-market plan
Build your Brand
Get real users

Get a Team in 24hrs!

Developer
Full stack / no-code (Bubble Developer) proficient in modern & responsive design.
Designer
Product Designer trained to delight users through engaging user experiences.
Product Manager
Product Leader with strong sense of market trends, customer research, roadmapping and competitive analysis.
Business Analyst
BA will manage all your data and product requirements, supporting the Product Manager, ensuring product readiness and quality assurance.
Scrum Master
Keeps everyone accountable to timeline, scope and budget. Manage work spaces and team meetings.
Team Coach
Accelerator alumni who holds team together so you don't necessarily have to - as Founder.
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Reviews

If you're an individual founder with great ideas, and you are serious about starting a company, you should join this 8-week program, to build your MVP. You'll find potential co-founders and early talent in the process.

Ayodele Pompey - CEO at SmartTem
Reviews

If you are serious about launching your startup, then SkillHat Accelerator is where you want to be. You are thrust into a situation where you must pick an idea, form a team, and set expectations within a few hours. From there you are guiding a team of people, conceivably from all parts of the world, to pull together for a single cause. The premise of being a leader and accepted as one, is the greatest achievement of the program.

Larry Hovell - Founder at Trusty Cart
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The Team at Skillhat has been wonderful! The experience here is top notch. Feedback is excellent, coaches are highly skilled and very helpful. I highly recommend SkillHat to anyone ready for that next move...

Obinna Ezeifedi - Software Developer, Africollective
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Skillshat accelerator programme has been a life-chager within this short period. I was blessed with some talented individuals who ensured I wasn't left behind and constantly motivated me in this journey. This accelerator made me appreciate the power of team work and effective communication. It was awesome! This accelerator has also given me the skillset by exposing me to vital productivity platforms that would be instrumental in my career as a UX designer. I'll always recommend this accelerator programme for anyone willing to take their career to the next level.

Babatola Arogundade - UX Designer, BuddieFit

Program Agenda

Launch a million dollar business using best practice innovation frameworks like Design thinking & Scrum.

Cohort start date: August 4th & November 17th

Week 0

Pre - work

Founder readings
Access your tech systems
Refine your pit
Week 1

Team Formation

Pitch your idea
Meet the coaches
Meet your team
Begin research
Week 2 - 4

Design Thinking

Analyze market data
Define the problem
Develop & test your prototype
Week 5 - 8

MVP Development & Launch

Team builds your product
Release your first version
Gain user feedback
Identifying product-market fit
Week 9

Demo Day

Prepare your pitch
Present to investors and potential partners

Advisors & Mentors

Alisha Golden

Investment Manager - Techstars

Eily Hickson

Canada Practice Lead, Product & Growth -
- Emerging Tech & Engineering Accenture

Ayodele Pompey

CEO - SmartTeam

Nouhaila Chelkhaoui

CEO - Scale Without Borders

Akin Akinwunmi

Director of Product management - CIBC

Efosa KC Obano

Founder - Black Founders Network

How much does it cost?

Gold Package

+ 2.5% rev share
$5,000 USD
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Silver Package

+ 6.5% rev share (12 months)
$3,500 USD
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Some of our Projects

Here are some of the projects developed by previous students in our program.

MyLet

Canada Practice Lead, Product & Growth -
MyLet is an integrated home rental solutions provider with a mandate to help the underserved immigrants and students with rental challenges by providing a platform for them to be able to overcome existing unfavourable rental conditions.

HealthPro Nexus

Canada Practice Lead, Product & Growth -
HealthPro Nexus is a platform that provides internationally educated health professionals (IEHPs) access to COMMUNITY and RESOURCES to facilitate their licensure and employment processes in Canada from personalized mentorship, extensive exam preparation, residency placement and job support, community forum to financial aid and up-to-date information.

Black Scholar

A one stop shop for Black Students to maximize their scholarship search.

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Cohort start date: August 4th & November 17th

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do I know if I'm a fit for the program?

How do I know if I'm a fit for the program?

Do Founders need to code?

Who will be building my Product?

Will I need to attend classes?

What will I get exactly with this Founder Accelerator?