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DEADLINE: ONGOING
Savvy is a virtual Fellowship program for passionate and brilliant young professionals seeking to be part of the new generation of impact entrepreneurs.
No cohort. No application deadline. No ethnic restriction. Ages 18 – 40. It’s a rolling program, so we accept new applications year-round.
Here are some reasons why you should be a Savvy Fellow.
Practical Learning
For 12 weeks, you’ll learn how to start, build, and scale an impact venture. Using visual presentations, we’ll help you answer all the relevant questions you need to kickstart that amazing impact venture, gain early traction, achieve product-market fit, and scale into newer markets. Savvy is for every impact entrepreneur, no matter what stage your venture is.
Simultaneous Mentorship
While learning, you’re offered mentorship as well, which is a great way to have a better understanding of your industry. Mentorship comes in two ways: peer-to-peer and expert. Since all Savvy Fellows don’t have the same level of experience, more experienced and knowledgeable Fellows help guide others. A select few Fellows get expert mentorship from industry experts.
Life-long Community
“Once a Savvy Fellow, always a Savvy Fellow.” Savvy isn’t just a 12-weeks learning, assessment, and mentorship program, it’s a lifelong entrepreneurial learning process. Post Fellowship, you can constantly access your Savvy Fellowship account and have access to our weekly updated resources, in the form of entrepreneurial tips, nuggets, and opportunities.
Every day, we receive and review hundreds of applications from exceptional young professionals around the world. Every day, we select the finest of them to join the Savvy family. So far, we have received 100,913 applications, and we have selected and trained 8,350 Fellows from 159 countries around the world.
Your Customer
- Who is your target customer?
- What problem do you want to solve for your customer?
- When does the problem occur and why it is urgent?
- What would make the life of your customer easier?
Your Go-to-Market Strategy
- What is your strategy to develop the business and scale your impact?
- How will you conquer your market and tackle the social problem?
- What physical resources are needed for your commercial operations and to ensure you deliver on your impact objectives?
- Do you need a supply of any type to create and offer your solution?
- What intellectual resources are needed for your commercial operations?
- What intellectual resources are needed to ensure you deliver on your impact objectives?
- Do all the resources need to be located inside your social enterprise, or can some of them be located with and accessed through partnerships?
- What are your long-term goals?
Your Operations
- What do you do in-house and what do you delegate?
- What are the key processes and operations involved?
- What are the key activities that are needed to achieve your impact objectives?
- What overlaps are there between the two sets of activities?
- Are there ways we can build efficiencies into these complementary activities?
- What oppositional activities are there?
- How can we address these so that they are more balanced?
- What facilities and equipment do you require?
- What are your needs and challenges?
- What are the costs to achieve your commercial objectives?
- What are the costs to deliver and scale your impact?