Stanford Seed Spark

This certified sector agnostic early-stage entrepreneurship program provides practical tools to help aspiring/early-stage founders to refine their business or business idea. It offers mentoring, fundraising, and networking with Asia's best. The program's time commitment is 5–8 Hours / Week, program fee is $150 USD, duration is 5 Weeks – 5 Months, and it is fully virtual. Eligibility criteria include being a Founder or Co-founder working full-time, having a Prototype or MVP already built, a business officially registered with clean financial records, a professional website, actively looking to grow or raise funding, and annual revenue under $300,000. The process involves customer problem identification, discovery and dialogue to develop/test prototypes and refine value propositions, decision to act by identifying partners and building value chains and defining Go-To-Market strategy, engagement and optimization to explore profit and growth models, and business model communication through a compelling pitch, culminating in a cash prize competition and certification.