You're small

You are a start-up. Great ideas led to a first MVP and maybe you attracted some initial investment. But then it became difficult. Strategy, management, marketing, new domains diffuse from the original great idea. What you need is the right eco system around you with expertise, skill and deep knowledge of shaping a great idea into a sound model. A solid sponsor on the background who is in it for the long term.

It’s not about the size of the investment nor the burn rate. It’s not how to polish your glossy presentation for demo day. It’s not how to accelerate into a short sprint. It’s about how to develop a continuous high pace and the stamina to maintain it. It’s about serious growth. Serious in the support you get and serious in the growth rates achievable. And serious in the effort and energy required from you. But that’s why you made it through the initial selection and training anyway, because we saw the characteristics in you and your team required to grow from great idea to a viable, sustainable and mature initiative.

There is not one way of doing things right. Countless different roads have led to success. Because human creativity and ingenuity always surprises you. That’s why the Biosphere is very specific in selecting talent and ideas and is very much focused on interaction and cooperation, but less rigid in one-size-fits-all processes. What works for one does not necessarily work for the other.

Every initiative, big or small, requires an approach fit to their specific requirements and circumstances. Make no mistake, we know what it takes to build sustainable initiatives and what universal skills are needed and you will be exposed to them during the program. But the way you deploy them is up to you. It’s not a kindergarten. It’s the Biosphere.