The Entrepreneur in Practice (EiP) is designed to unleash the ideas, talents, and the entrepreneurial drive of an individual by way of applied training. The three-day interactive program focuses on introduction to entrepreneurship, understanding of the intricacies to a successful enterprise, and constructing a new business that addresses a local need while utilizing the means available to the respective community. The EiP provides a platform for both early-stage and seasoned entrepreneurs to invent and launch commercially viable businesses.

Entrepreneur in Practice
Pilot Program

will be announced soon

Only 50 young individuals will be accepted to be part of the pilot Entrepreneur in Practice project in Skopje, Macedonia. The program is projected to produce approximately 10 new constructive enterprise concepts. Each participant will be joined with 4-6 other members to compose entrepreneurial teams. Each team will be guided in ways that gradually produces a robust business concept, which will be presented to all teams and stakeholders on the final day. All teams will create their models on Athgo’s mobile entrepreneurial center in order to assure development continuity and increased opportunity to secure necessary resources. The most innovative concepts will be rewarded with seed funding by the program.

The program also is designed to improve (i) Intellectual Capital of each participant by way of assessing entrepreneur’s knowledge base and providing fundamental understanding of the value of the 4-pillars to success as a prime method to prosperous constructive entrepreneurship; (ii) Inner Capital through motivating and inspiring participants by way of identifying and capitalizing on each participants personal strength; (iii) Financial Capital by means of new constructive enterprise initiation and engagement by every single team; and (iv) Networking Capital using a considerable portion of the project toward network expansion by way of interactions with peers, pertinent private sector members (including potential funders), officials from the international institutions, and other relevant parties.