Startup camp is a highlight of the campus entrepreneurial set’s calendar. To get the most out of it, plan ahead. There’s no need to get bogged down in logistics while all your focus should be on your startup.

Here is a partial checklist of things that you can prepare for so you can have a productive. uninterrupted period of hacking and building:

Pack and store your belongings in storage

For the duration of the camp, you will be staying at PGP Residences block 12. Assigned rooms will be emailed to you one week before the camp begins.

If you are staying in hall, your hall will provide some storage space for your belongings as you have to clear out your room. You can refer to this packing guide from Whatstorage to pack more efficiently.

Sponsored software package

Contact your group leader for the sponsored software package

Our partners for the camp Microsoft, Google and Atlassian have sponsored software for us. To claim the software, please reach out to your respective group leaders. The software available are:

Microsoft Office

Google Firebase

Google App Engine

Atlassian Bitbucket

Adobe Creative Cloud

Familiarise yourself with software prototyping tools

Licenses for Balsamiq Mockup have been purchased. You may collect them from your Teaching Assistant (TA).

Balsamiq Mockup

Sketch (part of Adobe Creative Cloud)

Familiarise yourself with your options for validating your designs

These tools below are to be considered supplementary to your startup validation journey. They are not acceptable as the sole validation for your project. You are expected to reach out to real customers for your project. Speak to your TA for questions that you may have.

Five Second Test

Crazy Egg

Familiarise yourself with support schemes from the government

Enterprise SG is the agency responsible for supporting enterprise development. For your project, you may wish to explore ways that their support schemes can be used to further your business goals. Read more about their schemes here.

Familiarise yourself with payment options

The best validation that you can have is paying customers. For that you have to consider the ways in which you can receive payment and build it in to your product. There are a wealth of payment options available to you. Here is a shortlist of the most robust, widely supported options:

Paypal

Stripe

WeChat Pay

AliPay

Have a system in place to track your expenses for this project

No specialized software is needed for keeping track of your expenses for this project. You can use a spreadsheet. However, please remember to always store the receipt for every purchase. All purchases must also be approved by your TA. As mentioned before, hardware purchases must be approved on a case-by-case basis, and paid advertising is not allowed from the alloted expenses budget.

Thank you for your attention and all the best for your startup endeavours!