BETA Camp is for young leaders who want to learn how to solve the world's most pressing problems and get real-world experience today.
- Work in teams to build a real world startup
- Explore future careers
- Stand out on college applications
BETA Camp helps you build the skills you need to succeed like no other education experience through world-class instructors, in-depth curriculum with tactical hands-on learning, and a powerful community.
Now enrolling for Summer 2023 - July and August cohorts!
Build a business and get your first customer in 4 weeks.
of interactive workshops led by our team of mentors and industry professionals
with experienced entrepreneurs and startup advisors
of on-demand lecture content inspired by startup incubators and top MBA programs
young leaders in our network to work and build lifelong relationships with
Students learn from industry experts and real-world experience instead of through textbooks and theory. Instead of passively listening to lectures, you'll get more interactive experiences, small group discussions, hands-on projects, feedback & mentorship, Q&A, role-playing, and a lot of community & networking.
Design Thinking Workshop
Analyzing Data
Critical Thinking
Networking
Delivering Results
Self-Directed Learning
Sales and Negotiations
Building a website or app
Building workflows and operations
Decisions making with consequences
Kyne joined BETA Camp in his senior year of high school where he was exposed to entrepreneurship for the first time. He is now a sophmore at the Wharton School interested in early to growth stage life science ventures that advance the frontiers of healthcare in the United States.
Learn the fundamentals of business, technology, and entrepreneurship. This includes exploring up and coming technologies and industries that will drive innovation, the risks and rewards of different types of entrepreneurship, and ways to differentiate from competition.
Live workshops in this phase are focused on helping students break down big problems into actionable steps, recognize pain points they experience themselves, and discover how to work on a team with peers with different opinions and skillsets.
Career Exploration: See how core positions at startups and businesses look day-to-day and identify the skills it takes to break in. Learn why that role is important to the business and what pathways there are to get to that position.
Learn multiple methods of ideation and how to evaluate whether a business is worth building. Students will learn about finding a niche in a big market, where to look for unique insights, hypothesis testing, and conducting user research.
Live workshops will include design thinking for high school students and Company Challenges on conducting experiments to determine whether a new product or service is worth building and collecting user insights and information.
Career Exploration: Get to know the innovation arm of a company and discover careers related to user experience. We'll bring in a founder to answer your burning questions about the mechanics of starting a startup, debunk myths to entrepreneurship and inspire action. Understand your own strengths and skills that you can double-down on to grow into a competitive advantage.
Learn how to build a minimal viable product within 2 weeks with or without code so that you can get your startup off the ground. For the rest of the program, students will focus on iterating the business, get comfortable in making consequences decisions with incomplete information, collect, read, and understand data, and build out operations and workflows.
During this time, every live workshop will help students practice skills they need to build their startups. This learning how to handle rejection, how to write enticing copy, how to launch fast and iterate faster, and how to leverage tech to accelerate.
Career Exploration: Based on students interest in the problems they chose to pursue, we bring in professionals that work in social impact, higher education (MD, JD, PhD), digital nomads (remote work), or disruptive tech careers for Q&A.
Initial traction is hard to get and involves a lot of trial and error as well as pure hustle. While continuing to build and improve the product, students will learn about best practices for cold outreach, strategizing and creating the marketing funnel, and selling.
Students will get to practice creating viral content with entrepreneurs that have leveraged media like TikTok and Youtube to distribute their products/services in live workshops as well as experience real-world negotiations and sales practice.
Career exploration: Founders come in to share how they navigated the early stages of their business.
BETA Camp concludes with a Demo Day where students share the achievements of their business in just a few short weeks. To prepare, students learn the elements of a good pitch, how to plan for future expansion and growth, and performative speaking skills.
Live workshops in this final phase include a growth and scaling Company Challenge, presentation skills practice, and analyzing market size and financial projections.
Career exploration: Hear from VCs who come in for Q&A as well as investors who are judges at Demo Day on what they look for in a successful startup and how students can start generating value today.
with industry experts and entrepreneurs.
inspired by startup incubators and top MBA programs.
with experienced entrepreneurs and alumni mentors.
with industry experts and entrepreneurs.
inspired by startup incubators and top MBA programs.
with experienced entrepreneurs and alumni mentors.
Early Bird
Apply by May 1st
$3,500 USD
Regular
Apply by June 4th
$3,750 USD
Our Do the Work Guarantee
One of the things that defines BETA Camp is our focus on tangible results. Our goal is for every student to build a startup and get their first paying customer by the end of the program.
If you do the work in BETA Camp, and are not satisfied by the end of the program, email us within 1 week of the program end date, and you'll get a 100% refund.
To be eligible, students must attend more than 80% of the live sessions and 90% of startup mentorship sessions, participate in Demo Day, and follow our startup playbook. Please contact us or see our Terms of Service for details.
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