FounderHUB

In person workshop (2 hours): Frame your idea

Build your entrepreneurial foundation and gain a better understanding of the problem you are solving, your idea and the user it affects.

Online workshop (1 hour): Understand your market and user

Apply entrepreneurial research methods to discover more about your industry, market and customers to create new opportunities moving forward.

In person workshop (2 hours): Design value and impact proposition

Harness strategic insights to identify customer desired gains and existing pains, and develop a compelling value proposition that ensures desirability, feasibility, impact, and viability. Learn to identify, define, and communicate your business impact based on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Online workshop (1 hour): Customer experience design

Using user journey and stakeholder mapping tools to land your customer research and design products/ services focused the user experience optimise your startup success.

In person workshop (2 hours): Prototyping and testing

Master the essential principles of prototyping for your business idea and learn how to create rapid in-expensive prototypes to test, validate and refine your solution.

Online workshop (1 hour): Build your business model

Create a winning business model by utilising the lean canvas to map key components such as target market, value proposition, channels, revenue streams and cost structures.

In person workshop (2 hours): Sell your vision

Use the power of storytelling and pitching to captivate your audience and effectively communicate your idea and secure buy-in from your stakeholders and potential users.

In person pitch night (2 hours): Time to show off your startup idea!

Showcase your pitch to a panel of experts from RMIT Activator's community, who will offer valuable feedback, advice, and guidance to accelerate your business growth and success.

Online workshop: Reflection

A debrief post-program session to reflect on your experience, learnings, land concepts and talk about your next steps to building your business.

Yes! FounderHUB is perfect for founders with an early stage startup idea, side hustle or a university project you want to take further. If your idea is not too developed, you've come to the right place — FounderHUB will support you in shaping your idea into a viable business.

We regret to inform you that FounderHUB is specifically tailored for founders who already possess a startup or business idea. But there are still two pathways you could take from here:

• Reapply once you have an idea: you can watch How to Get and Evaluate Startup Ideas | Startup School to help you create a new startup idea, ready to apply for the program. 
• Join another startup/ group: you might be interested in joining an existing startup or group, please continue fill out the application form indicating that you don't have an idea and we will endeavour find you a match.

You can apply as a solo founder or as a team, just indicate it on your application form.

Absolutely! You just need at least one of your members to be RMIT affiliated.

Fantastic to hear that you are interested in joining a startup, you have come to the right place. Please fill out the application form above by indicating that you don't have a startup idea and want to join an existing group. From there the Activator team will connect you up with a group that aligns with your skills and interests, then we will leave it up to you and the group to decide if it is the right fit. 

RMIT Activator does not take any stake in your IP, the knowledge we share on this program is the University's way of supporting the wider community with no strings attached. However, if you are a staff member and/or looking to translate your research, we strongly encourage you to contact IP & Commercialisation.