Launch Academy Programs

Are you ready to get your early-stage startup idea into market? MVP Academy’s Launch Academy Programs are your gateway to getting your business from napkin to market. With a focus on early building for scale and market readiness, our program helps you overcome challenges, seize opportunities, and make meaningful progress toward your goals. MVP Academy empowers founders to build transformational businesses by providing access to mentorship and resources. Applications close Jan 2nd for the Winter 2026 cohort.

Here’s how it works

More building, less dreaming
Phase 1

Launch Academy: Prototype Lab

A 3-day product design bootcamp where dreamers become innovators by validating their ideas and building a clickable prototype they can use to pitch their ideal customers, friends and family, or possible investors.

 Identify problem

Define ideal customer

Market potential

Wireframing

User experience

Clickable prototype

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Think your idea has what it takes
to be the next big thing?

Step 2

From clickable design to development

Advance to the 6-week launch academy. Enlist AI to write your software. Deploy it, without a tech co-founder or experience.

Prompt engineering

Identify framework

Database building

Authentication

Cloud functions

Step 3

From launch to customer acquisition

12 weeks of go-to-market execution. Test your business model. Find what it takes to go from 0 to 1, and from 1 to 1000.

Sales Strategy

Fundraising

Legal

Business Modeling

Marketing Strategy

Step 4

From refinement to product-market fit

Finish the 6-week scale academy. Employ AI to build AI into your software. Adjust till customer fit is realized.

AI engines

Predictive analytics

Image recognition

In-app purchasing

Push notifications

Scaling

Start your journey

Launch Academy

3-Day Prototype Bootcamp

For founders with early stage ideas without a prototype they can use to validate with customers or attract investors.

WHAT’S INCLUDED

Access to Idea Copilot™

Access to design assets

Access to founder community

Access to startup mentors

Free