Validate your idea and take the first steps to make it a reality.
Ventures Validate provides you the knowledge to validate key stages in your innovation project and help the development of a viable and sustainable business.
After the ten-week program, you will provide a compelling case for your business investment to potential key stakeholders by demonstrating short-term traction, coachability, and adjustment to feedback.
Teams will have the opportunity to pitch to a judging panel for a share in $10,000 in cash prizes to further test the viability of their ideas.
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Validate is an in-person program designed to help you and your team develop a validated business model in an interactive learning space over a period of 10 weeks. In the workshops, you will focus on key skills and processes to enhance the likelihood of your startup's success.
Ventures Validate is an intermediate program and is open to all UQ students, staff, and recent alumni at UQ. The program requires prior experience or knowledge regarding entrepreneurship and innovation.
To be eligible to apply, you must:
- be a current UQ student, staff member or young alumni (graduated in the last 10 years)
- commit to attending all sessions over ten weeks
- agree to our Terms and Conditions
- have prior experience or knowledge regarding design thinking, and entrepreneurship and innovation
- have an idea for a venture and be ready to validate it through a research process or committed to joining a team to work on another student's idea
- be committed to taking your idea to the next level
Semester 1 2025
Semester 2 2024
Applications for Ventures Validate are now closed.
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*The Ventures Validate pitching competition component will be subject to terms and conditions to be released soon.
Ventures Connect
Want some advice on where to get started? Ventures Connect is your chance to come together with Ventures staff, student innovators and industry experts.