BattlePass Studio | Partnering with Startups and Scaleups

Hybrid Model

We partner with Startups and Scaleups to improve their business performance

We work with already established companies and startups that need help in specific areas. Our startup studio offers a flexible hybrid model in which we provide our services at discounted rates and we receive equity from your company. Typically we expect between 0,5% and 10% depending on our engagement and the results we deliver. This model keeps us motivated and aligned with the business goals and milestones that need to be reached.

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PACKAGE 1

Starter Pack- Ready to Join the Battle?

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ave yourself an immense amount of time and money trying to figure out whether your business idea is solid and what the best strategy to realize it is. BattlePass will not only thoroughly analyze and polish your concept but will help you turn it into reality as soon as possible.

Concept Validation

We work alongside your team to polish your idea and find the best market niche to explore.

Branding

We create your Logo and Brand design, Business Card, Color Palette, Social Media Covers. Our venture builder deliver a brand book with the main guidelines on how to use and develop your brand’s visual identity.

Business Formation Consultation

You will meet our Legal and Accounting specialists to discuss the specifics of your business and the way to build the foundations of your enterprise.

Industry Introduction

3 meetings with advisors/investors with relevant industry knowledge. A BattlePass Captain will lead the meetings to help you ask the questions that are most relevant to your business (only if your concept has been validated).

PACKAGE 2

Product Wrap-up - Build Smart, Simple & Fast

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FF (Friends, Family and Fools) tend to invest only on your good word and a brief description of your idea. Angel investors and especially VC funds need more convincing. You have to put in more effort in the product development and you need to actually show how it is going to work and feel for your potential customers. With the ‘Product wrap-up’ package you raise your chances of closing your next funding round by improving your product concept & presentation and by reaching a deeper understanding about the unit economics of your business.

Customer Development

Preparing the right product depends on the right questions you are asking and the right people you are targeting. We help you develop the questionnaire and analyse the feedback you receive.

MVP Scoping

We help you find the Minimum Viable Product features that will enable you to prove your early product-market fit. This is among the most important tasks that startups neglect or undervalue. Over development can cause bankruptcy but missing some key features could prevent the product reaching market fit.

UX & UI

Our Product Designers will design the user journey and the key (up to 10) screens of your product. This will be more than enough to help you present your concept to investors and customers and a great foundation for your team to work on.

Technical Specification

We help you choose the right technologies to build your MVP and the way to upgrade your product in the future. We try to save you time and money by using or/and reusing solutions we know and we have used.

PACKAGE 3

Tech Assistance - Development Partners by Your Side

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ot everyone has a tech guru in their team, we are aware of that - and not only because it’s hard to encounter such people but also because they’re way too expensive. No worries, our venture builder can get rid of this headache of yours by appointing you the tech advisors and developers that every startup founder desperately needs.

Tech Supervisory

We assign a Tech Supervisor to work together with your CTO and your executive management. The main goals are to help you choose the right approach and technology stack for your product and to assist you in building and managing your team. We also help non-technical founders and their tech teams to establish a sound communication process.

Product Development Assistance

In the early stages of each startup, it is wise to hire more people that you can actually afford. But still, you need people with specific skills and knowledge that you can rely on. You can work with the BattlePass Network specialists: Dev Ops; Backend Developers; Front End …

PACKAGE 4

Fundraising - Finding the Capital & Strategic Partners You Need

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nfortunately for most entrepreneurs fundraising can be excruciatingly difficult and time-consuming. Founders often find themselves going into hundreds of meetings, sending thousands of cold emails only to find themselves at the same spot they started off from - without closing a single investment deal. That’s where BattlePass steps in as our team has a track record of establishing connections and closing funding rounds from various types of investors. Not only do you need to be thoroughly prepared but you also need the right network - and we can help with both.

Investors Pitch Deck Design

Our team will work with you on the slides you need to show to any potential investors you speak with. We will help you use the right words and our design team will deliver an amazing visual presentation of your business proposal.

PnL Forecast

The BP financial team will help you showcase the real potential of your business. Creating a great PnL for a startup is quite challenging and often you need vast industry knowledge to make the right assumptions, as well as lots of data to prove your forecasts.

‘How to Pitch’ Coaching

We’ll have as many dry runs as necessary to help you present your idea & team in the best way possible. We ask all the questions you need to answer once you start speaking with potential investors.

Fundraising

Our team will help you meet the right people to work with. We schedule meetings with investors, in which we often participate. By being side by side in the negotiations process we help you close the best deals possible.

PACKAGE 5

Growth Navigator - Scaling Fast & Strong

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nce you find your Product/Market Fit you'll need to scale fast and do it smart. It is scary to find out that even rapid growth can be a reason for a startup failure. Our job is to help you expand your operations and to reach new markets without taking additional risks and unsafe bets.

"Go-to-market" strategies

Often choosing the second market to expand in is more difficult than achieving your initial success and proving your concept works. Our team will work with you to find the right market entry strategy and to create a powerful go-to-market plan guaranteeing positive results.

Marketing Assistance

The Marketing strategy and execution will make your company stand out from the crowd. Often the difference between a good company and a great company is how one is communicating with the world and the ability to create a deeper connection with the customers. Startup teams tend to neglect marketing as unnecessary, relying solely on the product and the organic growth. The truth is that roughly 14% of companies fail due to poor marketing. Read more in Forbes

Data Analytics

Navigating growth right is impossible if you don’t use the correct data to base your management decisions on. Everything starts with choosing the KPIs to track and with setting up the data collection process right. Our data team will guide you through the steps you need to take to transform your business and to base it on a solid foundation.

Recruitment

We like to say that your first 10-20 employees are the foundation of your business. If there are some “cracks” it will be hard to build on top and stay rock solid. But even once you pass those magic first 20 employees you need to keep hiring good and smart people that will help you win the battle. Our HR and recruitment team will assist you in finding the right professionals. We use psychology models to assess employees’ potential and how they’ll fit your company culture.

Strategic Partnerships

We establish fruitful partnerships between startups seeking support from corporates, media, and non-profit organizations. This has often proven to be the right approach to enter a new market segment or/and to develop a spin-off product.

Software Development

Sometimes it is smarter to grow (partly) using external development resources. It may end up being cheaper, safer, and faster to work with already existing and experienced teams instead of building internal ones. We will help you assess the pros and cons of that approach and we’ll help you find the balance between building your internal team and working with external partners. We’ll be there to help you in managing the process and in navigating between teams and tasks.

PACKAGE 6

Operations Booster - Run Your Company More Wisely

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n our practice we’ve been astonished to find out how a tiny mistake in the legal foundations, bookkeeping or accounting can cost the company literally a fortune. Startup decision making, ownership rights, Intellectual property protection, tax configuration, and other important topics are way too complex to be solved internally.

Legal Advisor in Residence

Startup teams should focus on what they do best - building amazing products - and leave the legal matters to the experienced lawyers who can advise them on the best industry practices.

Accounting Services

We work with accountants who are no strangers to the world of startups and the many intricacies that come with running highly-scalable businesses.

PACKAGE 7

Additional Services - We Do Еven More

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he following list of additional services we offer companies and founders is extensive but far from being completely exhaustive.

Founders Matching

Often founders have great ideas but need a partner in crime, a warrior that will help them accomplish the goals they envision. We work with startups on finding the right people to join from the very beginning as co-founders or employees. It is our firm belief that the first 10 to 20 employees are setting the company foundation and we need to be certain that it will be solid and ready for building on top of it. If you are a nontechnical founder we’ll help you find the right CTO or if you have the coding skills we’ll match you with a business-oriented person and with marketing people that will help you sell and fundraise. We use a unique methodology that includes psychological assessment and compatibility tests for a real working environment to ensure we pair founders with the right specialists.

Market and Competition Research / Benchmarking

It is crucial to ensure a deeper understanding of the market and the competition each startup is about to face. We offer extensive market research and analysis to help founders choose the micro niche or/and the key selling points and product advantages they should focus on. You know they say that “the Devil is in the details” and that’s absolutely true about startups and their initial research. Finding the gap in the market and how to solve the users’ problems often lies hidden behind tons of information that needs to be thoroughly looked into.

Data Analytics

Financial Director in Residence

HR and Internal Communications

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