BHT Startup Bootcamp: Prototype your idea

🚀 Join our Startup Bootcamp: Prototype your idea and build and get ready for your first clients 🚀

The BHT Startup Hub invites you to an intensive 5-day Bootcamp (October 27–31, 2025) designed to test your concept by building prototypes and getting ready for your first clients. Together with experienced entrepreneurs, coaches, and industry experts, you will refine your customer understanding, explore the financial planning to validate your business model, build prototypes with AI tools, and test in real life before your product even launches.

This program is perfect for aspiring founders who want to start building, testing and validating their idea. Since the bootcamp focuses on building and testing prototypes, products with a digital presence (e.g., website, app, or platform) are best suited.

Please note the conditions of participation, which you will find further down in the text.

What you’ll learn

Over the course of five days, you will gain practical knowledge and apply it directly to your product. 

• Value Proposition & Prototyping: Refine your messaging, test your value proposition, and build prototypes that resonate with real users.
• Market Validation & Business Models: Understand how to test your assumptions, validate demand, and design a scalable business model.
• Hands-on AI Prototyping: Translate your product requirements document into working prototypes using cutting-edge AI tools like Magic Patterns and Bolt.
• Prototype to First Clients: Learn how to transform a prototype into real customer insights with interviews, testing, and feedback strategies.
• Customer-First Thinking: Reframe prototyping as sales and learn how to use feedback loops to sharpen your solution.
• Distribution First Strategy: Discover how to build demand and visibility before your product even launches.
• User Testing & Iteration: Conduct UX testing, analyze insights, and prepare your product for the next level.

By the end of the Bootcamp, you’ll walk away with a validated business model, a high-fidelity prototype, and a clear roadmap towards your first clients.

Bootcamp Schedule:

Day 1: Monday

Morning (9:30 AM - 10:00 AM)
Welcome and Introduction
Facillitator: Stefan Godskesen & Bastian Behrmann

Morning (10:00 AM – 1:00 PM)
The Customer-First Blueprint: Prototyping is Sales in Disguise
Facilitator: Nikolas Höhnke & Alexander Lieder

Afternoon (2:00 PM – 5:00 PM)
Understand your customer
Segmentation & value-proposition
Facilitator: Dr. Katharina Feldmann

Day 2: Tuesday

Morning (10:00 AM – 1:00 PM)
Market validation & business model / Pricing and financial planning
Facilitator: Pieter Niemeijer

Afternoon (2:00 PM – 5:00 PM)
Prototype Building: Translating Your PRD with AI Tools
Facilitator:  Nikolas Höhnke & Alexander Lieder

Day 3: Wednesday

Morning (10:00 AM – 1:00 PM)
Value-proposition, message testing, and prototyping building
Facilitator: Dr. Katharina Feldmann

Afternoon (2:00 PM – 5:00 PM)
Prototype Building: Working Session
Facilitator: Alexander Lieder

Day 4: Thursday

Morning (10:00 AM – 1:00 PM)
From Prototype to Your First Real Clients
Facilitator: Stefan Godskesen

Afternoon (2:00 PM – 5:00 PM)
Prototyping building / Working session
Facilitators: Stefan Godskesen & Bastian Behrmann

Day 5: Friday

Morning (10:00 AM – 1:00 PM)
Distribution First: Building Demand Before You Build the Product
Facilitator: Alison Esposti

Afternoon (2:00 PM – 5:00 PM)
UX Testing

Key Info:
Location: Berliner Hochschule für Technik, Haus Gauß, Room B501B, Luxemburger Str. 20, 13353 Berlin
Dates: 5-day Bootcamp; 27th -31st October 2025 (details above)
Time: 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM, 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM daily
Facilitators: Expert trainers from various fields

⚠️ Important Sign-Up Requirement
This bootcamp is funded by the European Social Fund and the state of Berlin, specifically for Berlin residents looking to start a business. To confirm your participation, we require proof of residency in Berlin. Please provide either:

• A Meldebescheinigung (residency certificate) from Berlin, or
• A scan of the backside of your ID (with the ID number blacked out).
• Your spot will only be officially confirmed once this step is completed.

Please submit to [email protected]

Don't miss this opportunity to gain practical tools, insights, and networking to launch or grow your startup!

👉 Sign up now and take the first step towards entrepreneurial success!

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Haus Gauß (B), Berliner Hochschule für Technik (BHT), Luxemburger Straße 20a, Berlin, Germany