SUSS – TRIVE Impact Startup Challenge

SUSS – GCIC Impact Startup Challenge (CDO303MNL)

Highlights:

  • Located at Manila, Philippines
  • Presented by SUSS in collaboration with Global City Innovative College
  • Build your ideas into MVPs with students from GCIC
  • Get access to exclusive site visits to Launch Garage and Tech Share
  • Pitch your business to VCs and Startup Mentors
  • Programme will be in English
  • Endorsed as a SUSS Overseas Experience

 

ISC - Philippines (GCIC)

 

 

(Programme details may change)

Total Cost: $900 - $1,100

  • (Inclusive of airfare, accommodation, transport and some meals, excluding 5 cu course fees or Registration Fee)
  • $900 RIE Grant or PSEA reimbursement available
    - upon successful selection to join ISC
    - based on individual’s eligibility/account balance 

For 5 cu credit bearing:

  • SUSS full-time students will receive a course subsidy of $800 in the following semester. For students in their final semester, prevailing course fees apply.
  • SUSS part-time students, prevailing course fees apply.

For non-credit bearing option:

  • SUSS students pay a registration fee of $180 per person.
  • Pre-tertiary and non-SUSS students pay a registration fee of $180 per person.

Programme Schedule

Pre-trip Session: 19 December 2019, 7pm - 10pm

Travel dates: 13 – 18 January 2020

Date/TimeAgenda
Pre trip briefing 
(est 1 week before travel date)
  • Meet fellow participants and main mentor/ accompanying staff
  • Brief intro to Lean Startup
  • Possible problem statements / 1-min pitch brief
Day 1
  • Meet foreign participants + Icebreaking
  • Startup Founder sharing on “How to build a business in Manila”
  • 1 min pitch + Team Formation
  • Intro to Javelin Board
Day 2
  • Problem Hypothesis & Prepare for Interview
  • GOOB 1 (Get-Out-Of-Building)
  • Learning from experiment & Pivoting
  • Group discussions and lessons learnt
  • GOOB 2
  • *Mentorship session
Day 3
  • Review of Day 2
  • Site Visit 1 (VC/Incubator/ Startup Offices)
  • GOOB 3
  • Value proposition canvas + Group Discussion
  • Solution MVP
  • GOOB 4
Day 4
  • Review of Day 3
  • Solution testing + Group Discussion
  • Site Visit 2 or Community Event
  • GOOB 5 & GOOB 6
Day 5
  • Pitch deck preparation
  • Pitch Rehearsal
Day 6
  • Final Pitch to Judges *VCs, Angel Investors, Startup Mentors
  • R&R if time allows

Admission Eligibility Criteria

  • FTMKTG (full-time Marketing) and BSBM (part-time Marketing) students may take this 5 cu course as a major elective. The course is graded and will affect your CGPA.
  • Full-time students may take this 5 cu course as a SUSS Core Unrestricted elective, under GSP100. The course is graded and will affect your CGPA.
  • Part-time students may take this 5 cu course as a general elective, under GSP100. The course is graded and will affect your CGPA.
  • Optionally SUSS students may take this course as a non-credit bearing course and register via SIMS events portal. The course is not graded and will not affect your CGPA.
  • Pre-tertiary and non-SUSS students may take this course as a non-credit bearing course and register via SIMS events portal.
  • CDO303MNL can be used to fulfill overseas experience (OE) requirement.

 

Email to entrepreneurship@suss.edu.sg if you have questions. Candidates will be screened for suitability and SUSS reserves the right to select the most suitable candidates only.

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