Week 7 – Reward your pleasure centres Week number 7 at R9 Accelerator has been very exciting for team Bosspac and we also celebrated the mid-point in the programme. We had our second mentor speed dating event where Bosspac and other teams met with 8 experienced mentors. They challenged our team with a few harder…
Week 6 – Time to design This week’s working part was precisely 1/5th shorter and therefore we had to be quicker by 20%. Effective team workshop on Monday definitely helped to prepare us for it. We had a talk from our sponsors who shared how powerful data analytics, AI and machine learning can be. It’s…
Week 5 – New financial year! This week’s highlight was pitch-practice when we had a Meet and Experience event and government agencies visited us at our Plimmer Towers premises. Some of the teams (including us) got asked some uncomfortable questions and it was a good practice to prepare us better for the final presentation on…
Week 4 – Feel the pain This week started with the first networking event with our potential mentors. We were having 8-minute chat with some of the mentors and once the time was up, the mentor moved to the next team. We are very excited to talk with experienced business people and professionals to learn…
Week 3 – Welcome to government On the week 2, we were introduced to our second government navigator. She is doing an amazing job. Initially, we couldn’t almost keep up to the speed with all the new people that we had a chance to meet. We were setting up the meetings with various stakeholders in…
Week 2 – Hello reality This was a very powerful week. We have finally started to explore the world of self-employed people. The first part of the week was a bit slower, but soon the speed started to kick in. We received an information pack from MBIE about our opportunity, got to know our contact…
Week 1 – Back to the uni! Team Bosspac has started its journey through the R9 accelerator. From time to time we will put some notes about our team’s success in a form of a blog post. 19 different activities and sessions in the first 5 days. It is a powerful start. We listened about…