Community based selection process

We will be reviewing the applications ongoing during the recruitment campaign, and if you are successful we will be in touch for an initial call, a video of your presentation, and then a meeting. We will be evaluating with our partner network for thesis fit, team fit and for the quality of your ideas. Don’t worry, we are looking for potential rather than for fully fleshed unicorns at this stage. The only way to join the program is to apply online using the simple form, please do not contact the team directly - during the recruitment period we are getting a huge volume of inbound requests and it is not manageable to respond to everyone directly.

Onboarding

We will make sure we get to know your business in detail prior to the commencement of the program and we will ensure your corporate setup is suitable long term and that all your legal agreements are in order. We have relationships with service providers to help get legal, accounting and banking do not become barriers later. During the first week of the program we will support you to establish what success of the program looks like, and how you will define and demonstrate the traction needed to take you to the next stage. This is not a cookie-cutter program so these insights will help define the rest of the program for you and your team. An OKR framework will be established and we will support you with reporting for this both within the cohort, and with your advisers.

Idea refinement

The first few weeks of the program will be focused on helping you to think through your core value proposition, getting your pitch straight, and then connecting you with valuable contacts who can guide and mould the delivery of that. We have a wide network of potential mentors, and the first two weeks of the program you will have the opportunity to meet many of these and refine your story. Some of these may become valuable advisors to you throughout the whole accelerator program and beyond.

Product development: customers

The core of the central part of the program will be focused on developing your product, and creating momentum with your key performance metrics. To achieve this core program content will be focused around understanding your market and competitors, supported by our research team, and understanding all the stakeholders within that ecosystem. A series of workshops will be run, to identify stakeholders, map the user stories and map the journeys.

Product development: technology

The program team will support you around key decisions in technology architecture. Outlier Ventures Labs takes an active role in our portfolio, including developing integrations and supporting with technology relationships, and partners. Together Outlier Ventures and its partners are building the Convergence Stack - a complementary set of technologies that will make up the core infrastructure for web 3. The Base Camp program gives you the opportunity to contribute and integrate with this Stack, and collaborate with the technologists building it. We hosted "Diffusion" in Berlin in October 2019 and gathered over 600 people building the future together.

Product development: corporate partners

A core strength of Outlier Ventures is the depth of our relationships with innovation and strategy teams in some of the world’s biggest companies. No project can develop in isolation, and in addition to connecting you to the crypto-community, we will also be focused on ensuring your concepts are stress tested with large organisations who will be fundamental to adoption and success of the technology long term. There will be a product development theme during the core syllabus focused on this, and connecting to our Convergence Alliance working group.

Elective content

During the program there will be a focus on your challenges and your particular situation. Working hand in hand with the Outlier team we will adapt the program to your needs. If your particular need is working out token economics in more detail, or regulatory considerations, we will be able to dive into that in more detail with dedicated time mid-way through the program.

Fundraising

The final third of the program is dedicated to taking the evolved proposition, and the product development progress that you have made and bringing this to a wide range of potential supporters of your project. To achieve this we will support you on developing the commercial proposition, and then in a structured way pitching to angels and VCs through a series of training sessions, warm introductions with feedback. The program will conclude with a Demo Day event in a conference venue where you will present to a broader audience of angels and VCs as well as ecosystem participants.

Aftercare