Corporates - Mind Cloud

What are the Needs for Entrepreneurs & Intrapreneurs?

Early Stage

Need all necessary & basic skills, to start, validate or grow their Venture or Business. Skills needed are:

Business Model Validation
Go-to-Market Strategy
Finance & Valuation
Sales & Marketing Strategy
Branding & Positioning
Digital Marketing
Customer Acquisition & CAC
Customer Experience
Term Sheet Negotiation
Scaling-up Strategy
HR Strategy

Growth Stage

Need to know how to be investment ready & fundraise. Skills needed are:

Overall Growth Strategy
Growth & Investment Readiness Skills & Preparation
Pitching Methodologies

Cruising Stage

Need to have easy access to:

Leadership, Teams & Soft Skills
Management Skills
Mentors,
Experts
Consultants
Talent / Assess their KPIs
Upskill their teams

What is the State of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems?

Universities / Schools

Entrepreneurship became a powerful tool for creating jobs.

20% of global students are seeking entrepreneurial courses.

Governments

Globally, the unemployment rate climbs to 9.2% from 5.4% in 2019 with little recovery in jobs by 2021.

In MENA alone, 75 mils. Jobs need to be created in 2020, governments investing in turning 25% of youth into entrepreneurs.

Medium/Big Corporates

Corporates have to instill innovation and intrapreneurship in their employees to keep being relevant.

Pre Covid, 72% of organizations believe that intrapreneurial learning is needed. Covid increased the demand to 100%.

What is Mind Cloud Academy?

The Academy

Mind Cloud Academy offers a number of programs and workshops for the regional community of entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs to take their visions and ideas and build strong business cases that create impact.

Covering A to Z of Business + Develop Complete Business Plan
10 Full Day Modules, 1 Per Week
Additional Assignments to Build an Idea or Grow a Business
Access to Network of Experts and Fellow Entrepreneurs
Only KHDA (Government) Certified Business Program

The Academy Program

A 10-week program covering the A to Z of the skillset and mindset of successful entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs.

Cohorts

130

Graduates

Special Workshops
2-hour workshops focusing on key challenges and hot topics such as launching a venture and scaling up a business that’s stuck.

Workshops

3390

Registered

Mind Cloud Demo Day

A night of VCs, VIPs, angel investors, and entrepreneurs getting together to connect and watch Mind Cloud’s latest cohort presenting their startups.

Demo days

VC firms

Why Partner?

Transform Your Organization Through Intrapreneurship

Forward thinking organizations know that the most important asset they have is their people, and upskilling and developing their people is today an essential key to all thriving organizations. Developing an intrapreneurship skillset and mindset empowers employees to take the initiative, identify strategies, and overcome barriers to organizational growth.

Such organizations will be at the forefront of creative thinking, problem solving and team-led innovation with the goal of solving organizational challenges and responding to current drastic market changes.

OR:

Support Your Ecosystem with The Cutting Edge of Entrepreneurship & Business Growth

The current market conditions and trends demand entrepreneurs and business owners to embrace and enable a culture of entrepreneurship in and around their organization from being lean to pivoting their business model. Their ecosystem needs to be supported with access to tools and skillsets for their success, as well as proper mentorship and guidance from leading experts.

Intrapreneurship Insights

As firms seek agile new ways to drive growth and engage employees, proven frameworks and tools used in intrapreneurship need to be adopted by larger organizations.
The speed of innovation is increasing an Covid era, and most organizations are aggressively seeking Innovation Strategies.
Market trends & consumer-behaviour change, demand leaders to enable an intrapreneurship culture and embrace creative thinking and team-based innovation.
Careem, Google, Facebook, PropertyFinder are leading examples of intrapreneurship. These companies positively encourage employees to develop radical ideas for business growth.

Pre Covid, 65% of training seekers prefered online-based courses. Covid, made it a necessity.
Comprehensive Business Skills training programs lead to a 218% Higher revenue per employee.
Firms need to empowers employees to take initiatives, solve problems & redesign frameworks for growth.
Pre Covid, 72% of organizations believe that eLearning puts them at a competitive advantage. Covid increased the demand and the need to 100%.

Entrepreneurship Insights

49.4% of startups have less than 6 months left runway left – Data, as of 20th May 2020 according to Wamda Survey of 300 Startups
SMEs contribute to 55-60% of the economy of any country, and most countries are planning to raise that participation further in the coming years.
90% of all startups fail within the 1st 36 months in the Middle East.
Top 2 reason of failure for entrepreneurs is lack of metrics, systems and processes.

Top 3 reason of failure for entrepreneurs is weak market research and weak go-to-market strategies
Top 4 reason of failure for entrepreneurs is poor execution due to lack of skills and upskilling.
Top 1 reason of failure for entrepreneurs is lack of funding or insufficient income to sustain.
32% of successful startups is due to great execution with right skills & right strategies.

PARTNERSHIP – OPTION

Intrapreneurship

Giving employees the tools, skillset & mindset to innovate and gain a competitive advantage.

Learning and Development
Develop and build capabilities by up-skilling the people you currently have.
Change The Mindset and Culture
Encourage employees to take the initiative and adopt an entrepreneurial mindset.
Spark Innovation From Within
Produce innovative ideas and new initiatives throughout your organization to spearhead growth.

PARTNERSHIP – OPTION

Entrepreneurship

Support the ecosystem of startups and SMEs for a thriving economy.

Grow your Ecosystem
Empower the entrepreneurs and business owners with skillset & mindset for growth.
Create Sustainable Impact
The name of the game today is for businesses to reassess business model, become leaner and adapt operations.
Support Future Success Stories
Give people who want to create businesses or the next wave of needed innovations the ultimate A to Z training.