pre-flight
2-day Startup Pre-accelerator
Preparing >>>you for the >>>mission.
Take the first step in developing your ideas!
At the #1 University in the world*.
What is Pre-flight?
The focus of this program is two-fold:
- Developing base entrepreneurial capabilities and
- Focusing on ideation – helping new founders to explore and select the idea they want to commercialise. Participants in the program should exit with an initial value proposition statement and lean canvas.
🤝 Focus: Pre-Accelerator
✅ Delivery: 2 Days Full Time
⏰ Timing: 11-12 February 2025
📍 Venue: 6 Hassall Street, Parramatta, NSW 2150
⭕️ Entry Criteria: None
💲Cost: $199 incl. GST plus booking fee (Complimentary tickets for WSU students and staff. Please contact us (launchpad@westernsydney.edu.au) for promo code).
Feb
11-12
Pre-flight Startup Pre-accelerator 2025
Launch Pad, Parramatta
Join Pre-flight if you:
• Have an idea but don’t know where to start
• Have too many ideas and don’t know which one you should pursue.
• Want to become a startup founder, but don’t have an idea.
At ‘Pre-flight’, we focus on the ideation phase, explore the knowledge that you have, evaluate options you are considering and then help you work through an idea you take forward.
During this program, you will learn:
- How to come up with innovative ideas
- How to prioritise and select between multiple ideas
- How to turn your idea into a commercial reality
- How to design a compelling business model
- How to build the first version of your product
The Benefits
Why complete Pre-flight?
Meet the mentors
Ian Mason
- An experienced company founder of multiple influential brands.
- Supported over 11,000 entrepreneurs with over £35mil.
- Managing director of Rainbow Bridge Education & Head of development Virgin Startup.
Entrepreneur in Residence
Adeline Chu
- Australia’s best startup mentor in 2023, by Startup Muster.
Mentoring over 500 teams in programs across Australia and Singapore.
Experience with start-ups in nanotechnology, fintech, healthtech, and edtech.
Entrepreneur in Residence
Jonathon Wolfe
- 30 years of experience in industry as the CEO of startups.
- Led the commercialisation of 6 technology platforms from Australian universities.
- Co-runs a management consultancy focussing on innovation and transformation.
Entrepreneur in Residence
Still unsure?
We recently held an engaging and informative info session with our Entrepreneurs in Residence, to dive deeper into the Startup Accelerator programs offered at Launch Pad and how you can benefit from such opportunities.
If you missed the Info Session or wish to revisit the content, watch the recording now.
Feb
11-12
Startup Pre-accelerator 2025
Launch Pad, Parramatta
Testimonials
Hear from our previous cohorts
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Alifyah Murtaza
Noorix Digital Solutions
Launch Pad has given me the basis and guidance to move ahead with a startup idea – You know what to do but don't know how to do it, and that question of don't know is resolved by Launch Pad.
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Stephen Pascoe
Tabloom
Launch Pad is an excellent introduction to the real world of startups. Its emphasis on real world experience from two excellent teachers sets it apart from all the other programs / 'dreamgrams' out there. Startups are hard, but so is life, don't make it any harder. Having teachers/mentors with real world scars and a genuine desire to help you succeed is just amazing. If you listen, if you learn and apply these principles with discipline, your chances of success will dramatically increase.
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Winston L. Reinboth
Go Drivin
It was amazing and many lessons learned. It was exactly what I needed, as they say "little knowledge is dangerous" and one can think one is on the right track. However, with Jamie and Johnathon I was able to clarify, crystallise and now focus on the next chapter. Some changes need to be made, some require tweaking, some to be lower in the priority list etc. A great reality check. I came away refreshed and more enthusiastic with a belief, that in following their guidance and direction one has a far greater opportunity for success and mitigate risks. Let's continue the journey on to "Ignition and Beyond".
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Gewargis Davidoff
Comet Studios
These 2 days had been an inspiring collection of presentations, workshops and discussions. I genuinely believe that the accelerator program will benefit anyone who dreams of big ideas and lives to make them a reality.