Looking to get more out of your startup events? Clients come to us for innovative, relevant curriculum and workshops that generate top quality showcase presentations and sustainable organizations.
For
Accelerators
Starting at $7,500 per cohort
Comprehensive, relevant curriculum for your cohorts, with customizable services ranging from plug-and-play materials to full facilitation. You'll see education translate into long-term impact through the startups you serve.
For Pitch Competitions
Starting at $3,000 per event
Get real returns on your investment with a structured schedule of interactive workshops designed to generate top-notch pitches that will wow your community on the Big Day. We promise your prize money won't go to waste.
For
Hackathons
Starting at $5,500 per event
Whether you're hosting a sprint or a marathon, our structured schedule of interactive workshops will nurture the best ideas and generate early traction, while fostering community and friendly competition that lasts long after the event.
Set up a call with our founder Allie to learn more!
Priya promoting her impact startup after graduating from our Launch Academy.
Curriculum that Changes Communities
Our participants go on to build strong, sustainable organizations.
And even when their business has failed and they're picking themselves up to try again, they tell us that they're still using what they've learned... especially then.
We don't know about you, but we think these are the kind of people we need in our communities.
What's Included
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Deep-Dive Workshops with Industry Leaders
→ intentional and interactive educational sessions with industry experts - see more details our curriculum below
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Accountability & Coworking Sessions
→ structured time to make progress toward traction
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Hands-On Office Hours with Experts
→ our packages include the option for 1-on-1 time with our broad network of expert mentors
Meet Our Alumni
We are so proud of the amazing founders we've had the privilege to serve. They're on the ground every day - learning from mentors, talking to customers, and building traction. Their innovative companies are poised to make big impact in a variety of industries, from climate mitigation and adaptation, to mental health, nonprofit resource sharing, financial planning, accessible family programming, equitable media, and more.
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Impact Over Output
Join our community of mission-driven clients who are changing the world with programs that encourage innovation and see their participants as whole humans. Our program shifts the classic startup culture focus from "building cool stuff" to creating real measurable change, traction, and impact.
The Curriculum
Each of our packages includes customized versions of the following curriculum...
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- CLEAR DIRECTION / build a sounding board for decision-making
- Outline your WHY, core values, & Zone of Genius
- Identify WHO you serve
- Quantify the problem you're solving
- DEFINING SUCCESS / create a container for your first iteration
- Understand your Appetite
- Set a Timebox
- Outline key questions and success metrics
- MVP MAPPING / plan your product
- Adopt a Visionary Mindset to embrace many futures
- Brainstorm your WHATs
- Map your ideal customer journey
- Refine the scope of your MVP
- FUTURE PLANNING / practicing intentional imagination
- Set up systems for integrating new information
- Block your Future Plan and Financial Model
- Identify the right amounts and funding sources
- PRESENTATION PREP / communicating your vision
- Sales best practices
- Pitching deep-dive (sales, investor, competition, etc)
- Presentation practice
Built For Founders, By Founders
Everyone on our team of heart-centered, veteran Entreprenerds has been there / done that. And the entrepreneurs we serve love our on-the-ground, scrappy startup style. 💃
" I was stuck with my startup not knowing what to pivot to next or what to focus on . . . Meep not only gave me much needed clarity to map out product development for the next several months, but we figured out how I can start making an impact right away."
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- MIKE DYER • founder of Carbon Undone, a platform that helps SME's reach their toughest carbon emission goals
" The Meep workshops walked me through things in a more practical way than I've ever been shown before. We were able to identify my most important goals, granularly lay out everything I currently do in my business to support my customers' journeys, and then identify my highest leverage moves to prioritize my time and grow my business. The team had a great mix of authenticity and practicality, I definitely recommend a workshop like this."
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- RACHEL KOIS • founder of Simple Switch, an online marketplace for sustainable and ethical products
Your Meep Team
Allie Reitz
MEEP Founder & CEO, Launch Academy Creator
With over a decade of first-hand entrepreneurial experience and product development expertise, Allie is a seasoned entrepreneur, business advisor, product strategist, and UX designer.
Allie's specialty is mission-driven product strategy, which she brings to life through collaborative sessions that enable visionaries to translate their ideas into real-world, tangible offerings. By utilizing design thinking, exploratory exercises, and group brainstorming, Allie's sessions help teams define their fundamental beliefs and chosen method for changing the world.
Allie draws on her on-the-ground expertise in business and product strategy to lead scrappy teams toward a successful launch. Her battle-tested methodology refines any vision into a clear path toward mission-aligned traction.
Teresa Densmore
2023 Launch Academy
Cohort Facilitator
Teresa is passionate about supporting purpose-driven individuals and impact organizations in realizing their vision for positive change. Teresa has helped countless startups transform impact vision into reality with business and program planning expertise as a startup consultant and through her leadership of the CoStarters accelerator program at Denver's Commons on Champa.
Teresa's Specialties:
• Defining your vision
• Understanding your market
• Creating/refining your business model
• Product/service development
• Refining your pitch
• Establishing meaningful connections
• Administration and facilitation of accelerator programs
Brandon Line
Product Development
& No-Code Expert
Brandon is a seasoned Product leader with 15+ years experience working with SaaS-based products in Agile environments. He has earned his entrepreneurial stripes through a career spent in start-ups, as a founding team member of 1,000 Gretas and CrowdSolve.
Brandon's Specialties:
• Strong customer empathy and a pragmatic focus on value.
• Creative and analytical by nature and a passion for working with data in order to uncover hidden relationships that have some utility in the world.
• Strong UX and design sense with a love for elegantly minimalistic products.
Acey Holmes
Playful Work Design
Enabler & Advocate
Acey Holmes has been playing in her education and career for two decades. She believes that our personal and professional lives can be improved with one simple priority: PLAY. Acey has spent much of her professional life helping children of all abilities communicate (mostly through play!).
Acey focuses on bringing play to adults through consulting and facilitation all based in the neuroscience of play. Her education and experience as an educator and speech-language pathologist make her a unique expert on communication and brain development with special application for organizational development and team dynamics.
When she’s not convincing adults to play, you can find her on a bike, skis, or in hiking boots on the side of a mountain somewhere!
Kat McGinney
Marketing &
Sales Expert
As a marketing and sales strategist, Kat helps trailblazers grow their business through innovative marketing solutions, sales enablement, and brand strategy. Kat has spent 15+ years in the B2B world, working with sales executives, customers, and partners to drive revenue growth in multiple regions and industries.
Kat is a full-stack growth marketer that believes in driving revenue through both traditional and creative marketing practices. She holds an Account-Based Marketing (ABM) Certification through Momentum ITSMA, an industry-leading ABM Certification and Mentoring program.
As a member of the LGBTQ+ community she is particularly passionate about working with founders traditionally underrepresented in startups, including women and people from the LGBTQ and BIPOC communities.
Tim Norton
UX Strategy & Design Expert
Tim is a passionate designer with over a decade of web, graphic and software design experience. He specializes in UI/UX (user interface & user experience) for application design, from simple mobile apps to complex enterprise desktop software.
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He enjoys learning about new niche markets and industries and figuring out how to solve user’s problems and make them more efficient. Having worked at agencies and software companies alike, he knows what questions to ask to quickly understand user needs.
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Tims's Specialties:
• Branding, typography, color theory
• Wireframing, user flows, high-fidelity visual designs and clickable prototypes
• Lean UX - testing and iterating on a tight budget and timeline
• Designing like a developer - knowing what to consider in the design process
• Information Architecture
• Accessibility
Izzy Clark
Branding & Logo Designer
Isabella Clark is an up and coming illustrator/artist whose passion is watercolor, though she is not bound by any one medium. “Artwork is important because it has the ability to communicate with the part of our neurology that does not have language, but rather speaks through emotion. When we can learn to accept emotion as a deeper communication, we are able to understand ourselves more deeply and better advocate for our needs“
It is Isabella’s mission is help others get in touch with themselves, in order to find their empowerment and feel more free. Her wish is to help create a beautifully diverse world where every human can express themselves authentically and live life according to their truth.
Jack Fritzinger
Ecosystem Builder
Jack is a serial climate entrepreneur and ecosystem builder. He believes that startup innovation is a key lever in addressing climate change, and spends his time supporting early stage entrepreneurs as they build their business models, fundraise, hire amazing talent, and connect with customers. He is the founder of Timberline Strategies, a consulting firm that advises incubators, VCs, and educational platforms on how to best accelerate climate innovation. He is also the founder of The Climate Guild, an executive community for climate leaders, Climate Tech Careers, a resource for job seekers, and Climate Founder, a resource for founders. Before jumping into the climate space, Jack worked on business development and partnerships at early stage tech companies.
Louis Melendez
Sales and Communication
Communication coach Louis Melendez helps people find the words to get what they want — whether it’s a new job, promotion, closed deal or improved relationship. After selling millions in digital ads at Yelp and raising millions more for charity at Charitybuzz, Louis founded Have Better Conversations to teach others how to successfully negotiate and communicate in their professional and personal lives. Also an improv and live comedy performer, Louis uses a light-hearted and candid approach to sharing tools and strategies for developing confident, human and outcome-driven communication skills and habits.
Lindsey McCune
Advancer of People & Business
Lindsey is a pro facilitator, coach and culture consultant. She expertly unlocks human potential by accessing what makes us most human, most ourselves, most happy and therefore, most effective. Everyone works best when they are fully themselves, allowed to show up as they are and in their best talents.
She’s a catalyst for magic and has worked with organizations from solopreneurs to Fortune200,
helping them be more effective, get more done and better, and have a great time doing it.
Lindsey is committed to creating community – if she’s not with teams, founders or
organizational heads, she’s undoubtedly still practicing her genius by being of service to others and creating a world she wants to live in; volunteering, mentoring, sharing the practice of yoga, perhaps on a trail, accomplishing the seemingly impossible.
Phillip Whiteman
UI/UX Designer
I’m a UI/UX designer turned agency owner. I get pretty riled up and passionate about crafting user-friendly websites and applications. When I’m not in the trenches of creative problem-solving, I’m usually playing poker, coaching basketball, or hanging with my little four-legged pal, Murph.
Leah Bowes
Co-founder/COO of CrowdSolve
Leah Bowes is the co-founder and COO of CrowdSolve, a pre-accelerator for early-stage climate and impact founders. Prior to co-founding CrowdSolve, she has spent her career building exceptional customer experiences at scale, for high-growth software companies. She is the mother of two little girls and is passionate about helping early-stage climate and impact founders bring their world-healing solutions to life to make a difference for future generations to come.
Amanda Vrbas
Sales + Revenue Operations Fanatic
Amanda has held executive leadership positions across sales, account management and customer success in multiple industries. She is passionate about understanding what makes a business unique to create operational excellence in order to exceed goals. She has experience with implementing and optimizing key systems to bring efficiency and process to customer facing teams. Her people-first approach prioritizes buy-in from stakeholders to increase the adoption rate of new strategies.