Founder Walkthrough - Startup Science

Hi, and welcome to Startup Science. We wanted to make a quick video for founders coming onto the platform, whether you sign up with us directly or if you're part of an accelerator program. On your homepage here, you'll see any activities you need to complete and a link to create your startup profile, which we'll get to in a moment. I want to point out the Help Center in the top right. You can always go here and find articles on everything in our platform and how to complete certain tasks. Next, in the settings area, we have your profile. Everyone has a personal profile and a role-specific profile. Your personal profile is gonna have information on who you are, contact information, location, job history, et cetera. And your role-specific profile of founder will have links to your startup profiles. All profiles have, uh, visibility settings, so you can have it be private, basic info only, or public if you'd like to be part of our network. Next is the startup profile. So this is where you can actually build a company. You can create as many companies or ideas as you like. Once you create that company, you can change certain details about it: the name, registration, location, entity information. You can invite team members for either view-only access or edit access. Fill out market and customer data, things like your revenue model, your market sizing, TAM, SAM, SOM. Fill out product details, add product media, videos, one-pagers, etc., and also a fundraising tab where you can display where you currently are in your fundraising journey. If you're not sure how to fill out some of this information, we have the Academy. The Academy has courses and collections on everything from what is a cap table to different fundraising instruments. So if you're trying to figure out your TAM SAM SUM, we have a Size Your Market course. If you need extra help, we also have tools for this as well. So we have a cap table simulator, business model canvas, and a TAM SAM SOM builder. So you come in and place your industry and it'll calculate your market sizing for you, and you can port that information over to your startup profile. Once you have a startup profile, you can explore our people directory. This is going to have advisors, founders, investors, team members, and portal managers that are in your ecosystem. You can see information on them if they're public. You can message them via Ping. If you need to message anyone else in the platform, you can go straight to Ping and select messages, do group chats, et cetera. We also have a Capital tab. This is where you can fill out information on your startup and look for investors, and a non-dilutive section where you can see upcoming grant opportunities. The Advisory is where you will find your matches with mentors and advisors. You can place sessions with them, assign tasks to them, review the tasks they've assigned to you, provide context on your startup, provide any, see any notes the advisor left for you. After that, we have the knowledge base. The knowledge base is where your program or Startup Science itself will leave best practices and resources for you to review. This could be anything from contact information, office hours, et cetera. And lastly, we have the marketplace. The marketplace is where you can come and get discounts and incentives on software and service providers, like for example, $10,000 in AWS credits or 75% off HubSpot. On top of all this, we have Nova. Nova is our own AI that we built specifically for startups. It reviews your company profile, any tools you're using, tasks, any advisor materials you've been given, programs you're enrolled with, academy courses you've taken, et cetera. And you can use Nova to help build your startup profile, get feedback on your pitch deck, you know, anything you need to build your startup. And that's Startup Science. If you have any questions, please reach out to support@startupscience.io. We're excited to have you as part of our platform, and we can't wait to see what you build.