CLIMB/TECHNOLOGY
Our flagship accelerator program CLIMB teaches you how to reach the critical milestones you must achieve to launch your tech startup successfully: delivering your first technology, discovering how to reach and engage your audience, and getting your earliest users onboard (and making them happy customers).
CLIMB/Technology takes you through the process of achieving this first step: delivering the first and most important version of your tech.
PART 1: DELIVERING YOUR TECHNOLOGY
WEEK 1: THE Riskiest assumption TEST
Your Riskiest Assumption Test, or RAT for short, is the critical path for you to build your technology and launch your startup with incredible efficiency. In a nutshell, your RAT is the one key thing that your audience truly cares about and that you need to deliver to them in your product or service. If you can do that and knock it out of the park, then you passed your RAT with flying colors! And if not, you’ll know you’ll have to do some more work to deliver a great product to your audience.
WEEK 2: CREATING YouR RAT BLUEPRINT
We covered feature fundamentals in BASECAMP, but now we need to learn much more about them to build out the blueprint for your RAT. You’ll learn what epics are, how to define steps to describe complex business processes, and most importantly, all about user activities, which are the currency that will drive your ability to build out your features from start to finish.
WEEK 3: Building your team
With the blueprint for your RAT in hand, it’s time now to find the resources you need to build it, specifically talented designers and engineers (unless you want to do those things yourself). Our approach helps you avoid common pitfalls and find the very best team that you can.
WEEK 4: PROJECT MANAGEMENT
With Vertical, you’ll be able to turn the “black box” of most tech projects where you have no visibility into what’s happening with your project into a completely transparent “white box” where you will be able to not only know exactly what’s going on, but also track and manage your projects resources, timeline and budget, and much more.
WEEK 5: QUALITY ASSURANCE/TESTING
Testing and quality control are hands-down the most neglected area for most startups. Many of them basically release anything to their audience, but this is a risky approach, because who knows what terrible bugs you’re letting them find? Why would anyone do that to their users anyway? You absolutely don’t have to, We’ll show you how to test your release before your audience does so you can proudly share your technology with them and help make sure they have a great experience using your product.
WEEK 6: LAUNCHING YOUR TECH
Once you’ve tested your RAT, you’re almost ready to release it to the world. But first, we’ll want to make sure you have all the proper foundational infrastructure in place so you can do that with complete confidence.
