Your 3-month learning journey.
Every 2 weeks a new online module.
Every 2 weeks a live Q&A webinar.
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Apply for a seat as one of the 50 selected companies.
Intake Interview
Be invited for a video call with our founding team.
Kick-off event
Network with your fellow founders and C-levels in an informal, relaxed setting at the Kick-off event. As you head home, your online journey begins...
- 17 March 2022
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Vlerick Business School
Bolwerklaan 21, 1210 Brussels, Belgium
1
Customer Journey Design
Week 1
Available online from 21 March
Matias Ketonen
Head of Growth Marketing at Pitch.com
Barcelona-based
Pascal Persyn
CEO at Perpetos
Belgium-based
In the first module you will learn how to accelerate your sales process and shorten your sales cycle with a well-defined customer journey.
Designing a customer journey starts with a deep understanding of the motivations of your user, and aligning your company around them, by designing Personas, Buyers Roles and the Jobs-To-Be-Done framework.
Once you know your user's motivations, you can start designing the user journey - from the first touch to retention - by segmenting and optimising the funnels. You will learn to scale these interactions by using a mix of digital and human touchpoints, which Pascal implemented himself in his previously sold company.
Personalising the user interactions during the journey can be done by Account-Based Marketing, in which Matias has a profound background in.
Finally, you will gain insights into implementing a customer-first culture by breaking down silos, aligning the organisation, and using the right funnels across your teams.
Q&A
Online live Q&A
Week 2
Live on 1 April, from 12:30 - 1:30 PM (CEST)
The live Q&A call is interactive in 3 unique ways:
- Part 1 (Lesson Learned): Learn from one of the selected Founders or C-levels their biggest mistake and the thing that they are most proud of
- Part 2 (Break-out Room): Interact with your fellow participants in a small break-out room, share your biggest challenge with others, and receive valuable feedback, in a safe environment.
- Part 3 (Expert Advice): Get personal feedback from the experts on your biggest challenge.
2
Go-To-Market Strategy
Week 3
Available online from 1 April
Hendrik Isebaert
COO at Showpad
San Francisco-based
Philippe Haspeslagh
Professor of Strategy at Vlerick Business School
Belgium-based
In the second module, you will learn how to interact with your users by building a sales team from sales reps to sales managers and letting them scale your sales process.
Hendrik, a VP Sales himself, will teach you how to build a sales team yourself, providing you with the necessary insights into which questions to ask when hiring salespeople and executing scalable sales processes.
After building your sales team, you will learn how to bring your product or service to the market with them and leverage the power of partnerships. Having a better understanding of how to move along the lifecycle of a strategic partnership will help you forge new partnerships.
Chairman of Ardo and founder of the Capricorn Venture Partners, VC fund, Philippe will guide you through the process - from choosing a partner to negotiating the partnership deal.
Q&A
Online live Q&A
Week 4
Live on 22 April, from 12:30 - 1:30 PM (CEST)
The live Q&A call is interactive in 3 unique ways:
- Part 1 (Lesson Learned): Learn from one of the selected Founders or C-levels their biggest mistake and the thing that they are most proud of
- Part 2 (Break-out Room): Interact with your fellow participants in a small break-out room, share your biggest challenge with others, and receive valuable feedback, in a safe environment.
- Part 3 (Expert Advice): Get personal feedback from the experts on your biggest challenge.
3
International Markets
Week 5
Available online from 15 April
Juliana Mendéz
Founder of SaleSide
Barcelona-based
Walter Kuemmerle
Kuemmerle Research Group, Ltd & Former Professor at Harvard Business School
Boston-based
Laurence Van Den Keybus
Co-Managing Director at Belcham
New York-based
In the third module, you will learn how to expand your customer base by tapping into international markets.
Entering international markets starts with choosing a step-by-step playbook and executing it accordingly. Juliana will guide you in learning how to evaluate the attractiveness of an international market, enter it, and ultimately become a local market leader.
Once you are established in multiple countries, you will have to choose between centralisation with an HQ or decentralisation. You will learn how to ask yourself the right questions to help you with these decisions.
Finally, Valerie will demonstrate these internationalisation playbooks, providing you with a specific case study about how your company can enter the US market.
Q&A
Online live Q&A
Week 6
Live on 28 April, from 12:30 - 1:30 PM (CEST)
The live Q&A call is interactive in 3 unique ways:
- Part 1 (Lesson Learned): Learn from one of the selected Founders or C-levels their biggest mistake and the thing that they are most proud of
- Part 2 (Break-out Room): Interact with your fellow participants in a small break-out room, share your biggest challenge with others, and receive valuable feedback, in a safe environment.
- Part 3 (Expert Advice): Get personal feedback from the experts on your biggest challenge.
4
Building an HR organisation
Week 7
Available online from 28 April
Janet Van Huysse
Chief People Officer at Cloudflare & Former VP HR at Twitter
San Francisco-based
Koen Dewettinck
Professor of HR Management at Vlerick Business School
Belgium-based
In the fourth module, you will learn about what your culture is and how your employees behave.
In the scale-up phase you aren’t just hiring for the role you have today. You are hiring for what that job is going to look like a year from now. You spend time and effort on development and begin to identify emerging leaders.
That's why in this module you will gain insights into how to find the right people - and encourage the right behaviors - in order to build a culture that drives performance and gets you the business results you want.
How you build that culture is tackled by Janet - who, as Twitter's first VP of HR, grew the team from 90 to 4000 people.
Q&A
Online live Q&A
Week 8
Live on 13 May, from 18:00 - 19:00 (CEST)
The live Q&A call is interactive in 3 unique ways:
- Part 1 (Lesson Learned): Learn from one of the selected Founders or C-levels their biggest mistake and the thing that they are most proud of
- Part 2 (Break-out Room): Interact with your fellow participants in a small break-out room, share your biggest challenge with others, and receive valuable feedback, in a safe environment.
- Part 3 (Expert Advice): Get personal feedback from the experts on your biggest challenge.
5
Recruiting & Managing Talent
Week 9
Available online from 13 May
Greg Marsh
Co-founder & CEO at Onefinestay (Acquired for £250M+)
London-based
Scott Tomtania
Head of Recruitment at Cloudflare & Former Global Staffing at Google
San Francisco-based
Xavier Baeten
Professor of Reward and Governance at Vlerick Business School
Belgium-based
In the fifth module, you will learn how to successfully support the growth of your organisation by attracting and retaining the right talent.
You will learn how to recruit the right talent and which questions to ask them. Then, Greg will teach you how to manage talent as a leader. A former entrepreneur and investor at Index Ventures, Greg has been on various sides of the table and will provide you with a variety of new insights.
Discover the ingredients of a total rewards approach to retain your talented employees. Once you understand which reward instruments are available, Xavier will teach you how to implement a reward strategy, by using the Vlerick Reward Strategy Tool, from Xavier.
Get to know what drives your employees by gaining insights into the psychological dimensions of rewards. In addition to the psychological side, you will learn specific tax tips and tricks to optimise your reward strategy.
Q&A
Online live Q&A
Week 10
Live on 23 May, from 12:30 - 13:30 PM (CEST)
Live on 24 May, from 12:30 - 13:30 PM (CEST)
The experts of this live Q&A call are Xavier Baeten (Professor of Reward and Governance at Vlerick Business School) and Sofie Van Breedam (Partner at Deloitte).
The live Q&A call is interactive in 3 unique ways:
- Part 1 (Lesson Learned): Learn from one of the selected Founders or C-levels their biggest mistake and the thing that they are most proud of
- Part 2 (Break-out Room): Interact with your fellow participants in a small break-out room, share your biggest challenge with others, and receive valuable feedback, in a safe environment.
- Part 3 (Expert Advice): Get personal feedback from the experts on your biggest challenge.
6
Product Management Organisation
Week 11
Available online from 23 May
Katie Madding
VP Product at Adjust
San Francisco-based
Tom Dejonghe
Sr. Director of Product Management at Collibra
New York-based
In the sixth module, you will learn how to develop a product roadmap and feed it with scalable customer interactions.
You will gain a better understanding of the different roles of the product team, from Product Manager to Product Director. With the right roles in your team, you can begin to make your customer interactions scalable and use this feedback to improve your product roadmap.
In addition, learning how to make data-driven decisions will help you decide about which features to include in your product roadmap. Tom will also share with you how to deliver a great user experience - by creating user stories - when rolling out these new features.
Q&A
Online live Q&A
Week 12
Live on 10 June, 12:30 - 1:30 PM (CEST)
The live Q&A call is interactive in 3 unique ways:
- Part 1 (Lesson Learned): Learn from one of the selected Founders or C-levels their biggest mistake and the thing that they are most proud of
- Part 2 (Break-out Room): Interact with your fellow participants in a small break-out room, share your biggest challenge with others, and receive valuable feedback, in a safe environment.
- Part 3 (Expert Advice): Get personal feedback from the experts on your biggest challenge.
7
Raising Finance & Interacting With Financiers
Week 13
Available online from 10 June
Dave Berkus
Angel Investor
Los Angeles-based
Sophie Manigart
Professor of Corporate Finance at Vlerick Business School
Belgium-based
In the last module, you will learn why you need a Board of Directors - and how to build a great one.
As one of the most highly-respected angel investors of Silicon Valley - with 180+ investments in start-ups and a return of 100%+ - Dave has been on many boards and will guide you through creating a high potential exit value with your board.
You will learn how to create value with your board with the 5 resources great boards supply. In addition to learning about these resources you will understand how to plan and execute a great exit. When driving towards an exit, you will learn how to develop a long-term vision for your company.
Sophie will teach you how to manage the investors on your board through different A, B, C & D funding rounds with Venture Capital and Private equity.
Q&A
Online live Q&A
Week 14
Live on 22 June, 12:30 - 1:30 PM (CEST)
The live Q&A call is interactive in 3 unique ways:
- Part 1 (Lesson Learned): Learn from one of the selected Founders or C-levels their biggest mistake and the thing that they are most proud of
- Part 2 (Break-out Room): Interact with your fellow participants in a small break-out room, share your biggest challenge with others, and receive valuable feedback, in a safe environment.
- Part 3 (Expert Advice): Get personal feedback from the experts on your biggest challenge.
Graduation Event
Come back to network with your fellow founders and c-levels and the experts from the modules face-to-face, in a mesmerising setting. After your 3-month online journey, you will become a true Scale-up Survivor!
- 23 June 2022
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Vlerick Business School
Bolwerklaan 21
1210 Brussels
Belgium