A week at Course Week with 6AM – what we took away
Last week Asapp! took part in Course Week with 6AM – the accelerator for founders building something big. We were picked as one of 11 companies in cohort 11, and for the first time 6AM included companies from Oslo. We're proud to be part of that.
A week at full pace
Course Week is a full week where the whole cohort gets together. For us that meant days packed with workshops, presentations and conversations with people in the same boat: early stage, big ambitions and a day-to-day where everything happens at once. Meeting other founders who recognised the same challenges was just as valuable as the content itself.
What we learned
The programme covered most of what an early-stage founder needs:
- ✓Go-to-market: how we reach the right customers with the right message.
- ✓Product-market fit: how we know we're building something people actually want.
- ✓Sales: from first conversation to signed customer.
- ✓Communication: how we tell our story so people remember it.
- ✓Fundraising: an introduction from both a VC and a founder perspective.
Our story got sharper
In the workshop on branding, story and product with Bao Nguyen, we landed on something we'd been working towards for a long time: a simple way to explain why Asapp! exists.
- →The world: shit happens. Someone forgets their keys, a spare part is needed right now, a gift got left behind.
- →The problem: traditional courier services have order deadlines that end before the day does.
- →The solution: a platform that connects online shops and businesses with spare transport capacity that's already on the road.
You can read more about it on our About us page.
A thank you to 6AM
A huge thank you to the whole 6AM team for a brilliant week – and to the ten other companies in cohort 11 for openness, good questions and a lot of laughs. It's great to be part of a community that wants the best for each other.
What happens next?
We're taking everything we learned into our everyday work: a sharper message, clearer sales work and a plan for further growth. Course Week is over, but the cohort carries on – and so do we.