StartupSprints support growth-driven companies through education, mentorship, and financing in a virtual, short period, and cohort-based setting.

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Launch accelerates the transfer of technologies developed by NMSU faculty and staff from concept to market over a four-month program.

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This model provides the tools necessary to accurately and robustly forecast your business efforts. This module includes:

• Instructional guide
• Forecasting model
• Auto-updating graphs
• Use case
• Presentation template for providing quick summaries

A good forecasting model is meant to be a tool to help record assumptions about your business, modify those assumptions, and most importantly, see the impact from changes. Along the way, this model will output data and build graphs. This indispensable tool visualizes the impact of your decisions and the outside environment on your company.

This module provides the tools and templates necessary to build a marketing plan, create materials, and align a marketing vision. This module includes:

• Instructional guide
• Marketing plan template file
• Marketing plan presentation deck
• Marketing plan presentation deck completed with a use case
• Executive Summary template

A marketing plan is the focal point around which a company delivers consistent and compelling messaging to the world to attract customers. It will develop the language, culture, targets, and partners your company will use to run a successful marketing campaign.

This module contains guides, workbooks, and tools that will help build an advertising campaign across multiple digital channels, organize high impact campaigns, and track the progress of digital advertising. This module includes:

• Instructional guide
• Twitter guide and workbook
• Facebook guide and workbook
• LinkedIn guide and workbook
• Google paid search guide and workbook
• Financial model for advertising returns
• Twitter example use case
• Twitter example use case returns model

A strong advertising plan and schedule is the mechanism by which a company delivers consistent and compelling digital messaging to the world across social media and searches. This module will develop the understanding, keywords, campaign content, and tracking your company will use into the future.

This module contains the tools necessary to understanding your investment future, dilution impact, and provide meaningful presentation this information. This module includes:

• Instructional guide
• Working capitalization table model
• Capitalization table presentation template
• Pre- and post-money dilution calculator
• Use case scenario for the above two models

A thorough understanding of your company’s investment landscape and dilution implications is critical when making decisions on investment and investment partners. This module provides the key pieces necessary to understand and constructively work with these decisions.

This module contains the tools and templates necessary to help build personas, create materials, identify the path of consumption, and align with your core consumer. This module includes:

• Instructional guide
• Persona instructional guide
• Persona workbook
• Path-to-product instructional guide
• Path-to-product workbook
• Persona presentation template
• Use case

A persona and path-to-product guide is a necessary component for how a company views, identifies, communicates with, and provides products to consumers.

This module contains the tools necessary to compellingly and clearly pitch your business efforts to an audience. This module includes:

• Instructional guide
• Pitch deck template
• Pitch deck template with notes templates for sending
• Use case pitch deck
• Audience identification worksheet
• Multiple audience specific executive summaries for your pitch

A good pitch deck communicates the value of your idea in a concise, direct manner. There are numerous ways to construct a pitch deck depending on the audience, however, all rely on the same basic themes collected here.