ID8 Pre-Accelerator

Fertilab Thinkubator’s Five Week Pre-Accelerator for Startups
Mentorship. Strategy. Networking.

ID8 is the best program in the Willamette Valley that helps new startups get into top accelerators and attract seed funding opportunities.

“The ID8 series gave me the kind of hands-on workshop experience I needed to jumpstart my understanding of cutting edge thinking on business model generation. The weekly presentations and workshops were great and the followup meetings provided access to great mentors with real world expertise.”
TOM KEATING
Founder
Cognitopia, LLC

Mentors
Our top flight business mentors know the challenges a startup goes through, and provide personalized, thoughtful, and insightful coaching to ID8 teams. These entrepreneurs come from all industries, and bring a wealth of experience and knowledge that truly sets ID8 apart as a high impact experience for enrollees.

“The experienced ID8 mentors helped Third Ocean identify business model flaws before they became a problem. Through group discussions, one on one mentoring, and a great deal of coaching, we made the appropriate pivots, and we now have a substantially stronger business model with greater chances of success”
Esteban Vollendweider and Kevin Bull
Co-founders
Third Ocean, LLC

“I’ve been rewarded as a mentor for ID8, getting to work with talented individuals and teams that are anxious to hear about my experiences in developing products and early stage ventures. It is great to see startups develop and change their strategies and plans based upon input that they’ve received from ID8 mentors.”

Mentor

Strategy
ID8 teaches the most cutting edge methods in startup planning, centered around the Strategyzer tools, including business model canvas, value proposition canvas, hypothesis testing, business model environment analysis, and others. These strategies allow startups to evolve their plan from a faith-based idea to a fact-based business case.

“The community at FertiLab becomes energized with new ideas, and the tools used during the ID8 Program help to compare concepts quickly during their group-brainstorming sessions. In addition, the tools are easy to understand, and they provide a concrete way to analyze many complex potential business pathways.”
Tony Marostica
Co-Founder
Vote Over It

“The strategies and tools taught in ID8 give students an invaluable framework, one that truly develops and guides small ideas into fully fledged ventures. The ID8 team has acutely identified key concepts and ideas that have helped numerous other startups navigate the early stages of their venture. The ID8 staff has successfully built a program that helps our local companies understand those concepts easily.”

Mentor

Networking
Being apart of ID8 is about being part of a greater whole – getting connected to peers, contacts, potential collaborators, and of course coaches and mentors. We believe that 1+1= 3, or 30, or even 300. Our program puts startups in the position to see, be seen, and connect with the world around them.

“ID8 provided my team the opportunity to network not only with experienced mentors, but also other entrepreneurs. These relationships will be a huge value to us in the years to come”
Nathan Gustafson
Co-Founder
Sit With Me

ID8’s spring 2015 class will begin in May.
Please contact ID8 Program Director for any questions