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There’s no time to waste. These opportunities are available at the BOP Hub.
An initiative under Startup SG, EntrePass is a work pass aimed to support foreign founders in establishing innovative tech or venture-backed startups in Singapore. Through EntrePass, you can look forward to join Singapore’s vibrant tech startup community and gain access to networking, fundraising, and co-innovation opportunities. Find out if you are eligible to apply for EntrePass here.
As an EntrePass Partner, foreign founders that have received our endorsement will enjoy additional privileges and have their EntrePass applications prioritised. All criteria for EntrePass remain unchanged.
Endorsed founders/ startups get to enjoy:
1. Expedited processing of the application, which reduces the timeline from an average of 8-10 weeks to 5-7 weeks
2. Assistance regarding the application processes with the Ministry of Manpower (MOM)
3. Support for privileges to bring in dependants.
SOCIAL BUSINESS PROGRAMS
IDEATION LAB
If you have a dream and passion for starting a social enterprise, but don’t have clarity on what to do and where to start, then ideation lab can help you take this first step.
This is a facilitated workshop that will engage you in the process of ideation by
1. Introspection - exploring your vision and passion
2. Understanding the challenge – exploring the nature of the problem systemically
3. Idea generation – exploring solutions to the challenge through a variety of techniques
4. Refinement – selecting the most powerful solution and how they can be developed into tangible solutions
INCUBATION AND ACCELERATION PROGRAM
Interactive process: Hypothesis, Experiment, Feedback Loop.
Incubation and acceleration BOP program integrates social impact with business impact. A practical, hands-on approach equips entrepreneurs with skill sets and a mindset that bring sustainable impact at scale.
Defining the Core:
Mindsets, vision, and values are the most important ingredients to grow and sustain an enterprise. Clarifying the lenses through which one views the world, articulating the vision, values, and behaviours form the foundation.
Create Value:
A human-centric systems thinking approach to problem-solving.
Understanding the core customer group as humans, empathising with their lives, appreciating their ecosystem, and identifying the problems you can best solve.
Crafting your value proposition that will address the problem. Prioritise solutions that bring both social and business impact.
Connect with social entrepreneurs from across the globe to learn and collaborate.
Deliver Value:
Creating channels for people at the base of the pyramid to access your product and services. Pursuing relationships with customers based on trust and dignity, partnering with organisations to deliver your value proposition, branding and marketing.
Capture Value:
Business model - resources required to create impact and business value, cost structures, pricing and revenue streams.
The program connects entrepreneurs to the larger global community of social entrepreneurs, a pool of experts with varied skill sets, and a network of investors.
SOCIAL VENTURE BUILDING
For most problems at the base of the pyramid, a solution exists in some parts of the world. When we connect these entrepreneurs, they can learn from each other’s mistakes, customise best practices to their markets, and collaborate to deliver exponential impact at scale.
We open this opportunity by tapping into our fraternity of Catalyst 2030, which includes 4,000 proven social entrepreneurs branded under the Schwab Fellows of the World Economic Forum, Ashoka, Skoll Foundation and Echoing Green.
To enable this, BOP is working on an AI digital infrastructure platform to support this ecosystem efficiently.
TRAINING
We periodically conduct training programs that equip social entrepreneurs to face the challenges they face at various stages of their enterprise - incubation, acceleration, growth, and scaling.
Abundance mindset
Leverage model – organisations of tomorrow
Discovering your vision
Foundations of organization building
Behavioural science for organisational development
Human centric design thinking
Building your brand
Marketing and communications strategy
Business model canvas
INCLUSIVE BUSINESS
Inclusive Business aims to use private-sector solutions that are sustainable, replicable, and scalable to achieve both commercial viability and development impact - fostering opportunity and expanding access.
BOP will be the catalyst in forging these partnerships between businesses and communities at the base of pyramid.
We work to aggregate and bundle products with distribution, logistics, economies of scale, public policy, design and technology, to complete the supply chain and more effectively deliver much needed goods and services to consumers at the base of pyramid.
Inclusive Business Project in Bangladesh - BRAC partnership
LABOUR SUPPLY & DEMAND ALIGNMENT: Addressing labour supply issues at the source. Ensuring quality, skill development and equity for foreign labour by addressing inefficiencies and inequalities at all levels
FAIR PAY FOR FAIR WORK AT BOP
FOOD SECURITY & SUSTAINABILITY: Opening up opportunities for businesses to supply low-cost meals at the base of the pyramid, and at the same time creating opportunities on the ground to learn skills and create jobs and businesses.
BUILDING SUPPLY CHAIN & SKILLS AT BOP
CO-BUYING & SELLING: Reducing the cost of living and increasing opportunities at the base of the pyramid by aggregating supply and demand through co-buying and co-selling models.
BUILDING EFFICIENCIES TO BENEFIT ALL IN SOCIETY
SPRING BOARDING SOCIAL INNOVATION: Leveraging on existing infrastructure and emerging solutions to facilitate large scale systemic approaches to solving some of our big challenges.
IDEATION & SOLUTIONS AT A SYSTEMIC LEVEL FOR BETTERMENT OF SOCIETY
ASEAN COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION MODEL: Leveraging knowledge, customer networks, markets, financing and technology to transform communities to eradicate poverty through business.
SELF-SUSTAINABILITY THROUGH BUSINESS
