Startup Bootcamp is a short intensive program for HBS RC students who want to learn the skills, tools, and practices of rigorous, experimentation-driven startups.
You’ll gain hands-on experience with customer discovery, execute on early-stage experiments, discover giant holes in your business model, and go back to the drawing board more than once. Whether you move forward with this idea or shelve it for something else, putting in these reps builds your startup muscle.
Program Overview 2025 - 2026 TBA
Thursday, September 12, 2024: Information Session (5:30pm-6:30pm) in Aldrich 112
Monday Sept 30th, 2024 Team Matching Happy Hour (5:00pm-6:30pm) in the Batten Hall - Hive 301
—> Thursday, October 3rd, 2024: Team Application Due at 11:59pm <—
Saturday, November 2, 2024: Fall Workshop (9am - 4pm) REQUIRED for all admitted teams
TBD: Bootcamp January Deliverable
January 17-24, 2025: January Immersion
Meet the Faculty
Rembrand Koning
Serial entrepreneur exploring how to help more entrepreneurs, scientists, and innovators succeed. His work on entrepreneurship and innovation spans industries and regions, from Indian tech ventures to small business owners in Kenya to women’s and mental health startups in the US. Co-director and co-founder of the Tech for All lab at The Digital, Data, and Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard, where he leads a group of interdisciplinary researchers studying how entrepreneurs can accelerate and shift the rate and direction of science, technology, and artificial intelligence (AI) to benefit all of humanity. Teaches ”Strategy for Entrepreneurs”
Natalia Rigol
Cofounder of microfinance startup in South India focused on bringing impact-first ideas from academic research to practice. Development economist working globally with fintechs, banks, etc. to bring novel financial products to market. Teaches Business at the Base of the Pyramid in EC. Formerly taught The Entrepreneurial Manager (TEM) in RC.
Ben Roth
Cofounder of microfinance startup in South India focused on bringing impact-first ideas from academic research to practice. Development economist working globally with fintechs, banks, etc. to bring novel financial products to market. Teaches Business at the Base of the Pyramid in EC. Formerly taught The Entrepreneurial Manager (TEM) in RC.
DJ DiDonna
Serial entrepreneur with experience in fintech, social enterprises, global scaling , and sabbatical / extended-leave workplace policies. Currently focused on commercializing social science research to create organizations that positively impact the world. Teaches The Entrepreneurial Manager (TEM) in the RC. (HBS 2010)