BVCC students participating in the 2nd year of the HBCU curriculum will collaborate to create solutions for early-stage startup companies.  Students will work with early stage tech startup companies and provide services in the areas of Venture Funding, Go-To-Market, Product Management, UX Design and Software Engineering.

Goals

  1. Allow business students to gain skills in research, problem-solving, analysis, and portfolio company support.

  2. Allow C.S., STEM, and Design students to build and develop their portfolio of projects and strengthen their technical skillsets by assisting companies in building UX designs as well as web and mobile development.

  3. Assist start-ups in evolving their business through an offering of market research, problem-solving, and technical services.

Who is qualified?

  1. Students interested in the program must be in their second year of the HBCU Curriculum.

  2. Startup companies interested in the program should send an email to ali@bvcc.vc

The Service Offerings

Venture Capital, Product Management, & Business Development

  1. Assistance in problem identification/refinement and ideation

  2. Assisting in the identification of Customer Persona/target customer and customer surveys

  3. Assisting in completing TAM Analysis & Competitive Landscape Research

  4. Formulating Go-to-Market Strategies

  5. Assisting in Business Model-identification/refinement

Software Engineering

User Experience

  1. Databases & Security

  2. Remote Procedure Calls (APIs)

  3. Graph QL

  4. Concurrency and Parallelism

  5. Horizontal vs Vertical Scalability

  6. Front-End & Back-end Development

  1. Design Thinking

  2. User Research

  3. User journeys & Story boarding

  4. Visual Design

  5. User Interface Mediums

  6. User Testing/Validation