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Build sessions. One company. Yours.

This page is the whole program, no mystery: exactly the steps we take to help you take your company from idea to demo day.

Cohort 1
Summer 2026
Dates
Aug 17 – Oct 18
Format
live, online · U.S. high schoolers
Tuition
$130 · charged only if accepted
Equity taken
none
Applications
apply by aug 10

Step by Step

  1. Step 1

    Validate

    ships: Validated Lean Canvas

    Lean Canvas, problem-solution fit, and customer interviews with strangers. End the week with a hypothesis you've tested in the wild.

    • Write a Lean Canvas for your idea (or use the discovery exercises to find one)
    • Run structured customer interviews with strangers
    • Kill or confirm your riskiest assumption before you build anything

  2. Step 2

    Build

    ships: MVP + business model

    Ship a v1: landing page, no-code MVP, or working prototype. Business model, pricing, and unit economics that hold up to a sharp question.

    • Ship a v1: landing page, no-code MVP, or working prototype
    • Set pricing and draft unit economics that survive a sharp question
    • Get live feedback on what you shipped, then fix the top issue

  3. Step 3

    Market

    ships: GTM plan + brand

    Go-to-market plan, competitive landscape, positioning. Find your first hundred users and the distribution wedge that gets you there.

    • Map the competitive landscape and pick your positioning
    • Design one distribution wedge you can actually execute this month
    • Plan the concrete path to your first hundred users

  4. Step 4

    Pitch

    ships: Live demo-day pitch

    Final deck, rehearsals, and a live pitch at demo day. Standouts may be offered batch0 sponsorship. Never guaranteed.

    • Write the deck: problem, product, traction, model, ask
    • Rehearse with the batch0 team until the delivery holds
    • Pitch live at demo day

Demo day

The cohort ends with a live demo day: you pitch the company you built to the batch0 team and invited guests. Cohort standouts may be offered batch0 sponsorship: a non-dilutive grant funded by our organization, decided purely on merit. Funding is never guaranteed, tuition never buys a sponsorship, and every student keeps 100% of their company either way.

If you read this far, you're the kind of person who finishes things.

Apply for Cohort 1

Free to apply · $130 charged only if accepted