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Around September last year I applied to Start it Accelerate | @KBC with a signed LOI, no revenue, and zero product. Probably the highest…
Kasper De Smaele
Co-founder & CEO | Kasqade
Around September last year I applied to Start it Accelerate | @KBC with a signed LOI, no revenue, and zero product. Probably the highest ROI thing I did.
Since then, through the Start It programme we avoided deadly traps in incorporation, hiring, pricing, found our first customers, had access to well-equiped office spaces and coaching (big up Lucas Tamboryn), met tonnes of other teams, and even received financing through the new Start It fund.
The cost of all this? NOTHING.
How they do it? You'll have to ask Lode Uytterschaut and Andy Gijbels, PhD what their secret is. In any case - if you're building, you'd be crazy not to apply: deadline is 14 September for the next Cohort!
P.S. for Ghent-based startups, I'll share some of our experiences as a Start It startup at the Ghent info session on Wednesday 2/9 - the exact same info session where Ludo Dhelft and Christophe Cieters convinced me to apply last year.
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