Creating the right mindset at the outset of your startup

What to do when you’re trying to get your first clients but it’s not working out? How do you rise above the situation and not let it affect you by slowing you down or discouraging you? This mindset and strategy masterclass for space related entrepreneurs will teach you how to survive the negative answers from your potential customers. You’ll discover how to survive negative answers from your potential customers. Learn how to thrive, despite the complexity of creating a successful business.

Mindset and business strategy are interrelated for the good or bad results, so you will learn what to do during the early phases of your startup to create a strong baseline and how to manage emotional intelligence to complement your business strategy.

The session will be presented by Jara Pascual, founder and CEO of Collabwith.

ABOUT COLLABWITH

Jara Pascual, founder and CEO of Collabwith, is an author and entrepreneur focused on innovation. As a board member of the Knowledge4Innovation forum, her voice is heard regularly at the European Parliament discussing topics such as digitalisation, “lab to market” and academia–industry collaboration. Jara is the host of the innovation podcast Business of Collaboration and co-founder of EuroSpaceHub.

GOOD TO KNOW:
The event is open to all. It is free for ESA BIC startups and SBIC community members (check the Slack channel for your link). If you are not in our community yet, sign up for membership here! Students can get 50% discount when registering for this event. Please get in touch using your institution’s email address.

Why not have lunch in the atrium at SBIC prior to the event? Payment is via card.

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Register your place for the info session on 13 June to find out what Collabwith, one of SBIC’s community partners, can offer to space business startups and community members.

Tips for startups on making the most of your collaborations

Empowering innovation through collaboration is at the heart of Collabwith. The organisation’s online platform brings people together and encourages online and offline collaborations. The manifesto states: “We believe businesses and society as a whole would prosper if there were better access to the bright minds of academics, startups and high-quality experts.” Collabwith is a global marketplace that provides access to experts, which opens up opportunities for collaboration and innovation. It’s a one-stop-shop, including a search engine and portal for making requests and negotiations, with legal and payment options embedded utilising bespoke software and technology.

Collabwith provides consultancy, training and workshops, plus a tailored SaaS platform for innovational ecosystems. Its services prioritise collaboration for innovation among its community members using emotional intelligence methodologies.

The session will be presented by Jara Pascual, founder of Collabwith.

ABOUT COLLABWITH

Jara Pascual, founder and CEO of Collabwith, is an author and entrepreneur focused on innovation. As a board member of the Knowledge4Innovation forum, her voice is heard regularly at the European Parliament discussing topsics such as digitalisation, “lab to market” and academia–industry collaboration. Jara is the host of the innovation podcast Business of Collaboration and co-founder of EuroSpaceHub.

GOOD TO KNOW:
The event is open to ESA BIC startups and SBIC community members; sign up for membership here!

After the info session, community members are invited to stay for the community lunch, which happens once a month at SBIC Noordwijk. (The lunch is free and you always must reserve your spot via Slack!)

Related:

Jara Pascual is hosting one of the workshops during this year’s Ignition Programme

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Knowco by Collabwith matches startups to experts. As community partner, Jara Pascual from Knowco will frequently be in the building to organise interesting events and/or recording business podcasts.

Martijn Leinweber, COO SBIC Noordwijk: “Knowco offers value to our startups by connecting them with outside-the-box expertise. For instance, they will be hosting six “Emotional Intelligence” workshops next year. That’s something you might not have thought of, but it’s important nonetheless. The soft side of running a business is just as needed as financial or technical expertise. At SBIC, we want to offer our startups the complete package of entrepreneurship. Knowco complements us in this.”

Jara Pascual, Founder & CEO of Knowco by Collabwith: “We’re happy to partner with SBIC Noordwijk and become part of the spacetech community in the Netherlands. We want to support the connection between startups, academics and corporates to use spacetech to solve business challenges and have a positive impact while doing so.”

Update: Check out the website of Collabwith

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