Founder Internship - Remote - No Experience Required Viseu

Founder Internship - Remote - No Experience Required
Viseu
Viseu, Viseu District, Portugal

ABOUT THIS OPPORTUNITY

Odaaro Ventures is looking for 8-12 students to form the founding team of a company that helps Lisbon businesses start accepting Bitcoin payments. This is not a traditional internship. You won't be placed at a company. You'll build your own. -Over 12-16 weeks, you'll research the market, design your service, acquire customers, and build a functioning business. You'll make every strategic decision. You'll own the results. WHAT YOU'LL DOWeeks 1-3: Research & Strategy- Interview Lisbon business owners to understand their
- Research successful approaches (learn from FREE Madeira's 150+ business onboardings)- Design your business model, pricing strategy, and target customer
- Create your
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- market plan
Weeks 4-8: Build & Validate- Create your service offering and all marketing
- Acquire your first 3-5
- Conduct onboarding sessions via Zoom- Iterate based on real customer feedback
Weeks 9-14: Scale & Launch- Grow to 10-15 total businesses
- Execute public launch with PR and case
- Refine and document your methodology
Weeks 15-16: Demo Day & Decision- Present results to stakeholders and
- Decide whether to continue as an actual business or conclude the program
WHAT WE PROVIDEInfrastructure:
- Slack, Notion, Google Sheets - all the tools startups
- Weekly strategic guidance (questions and frameworks, not task assignments)- Brand credibility and PR platform
Mentorship:
- FREE Madeira: Proven experts who onboarded 150+ businesses to Bitcoin in Madeira- Portuguese Institute for Bitcoin: Technical guidance on payments, Lightning Network, and
- Legal Mentor: Portuguese business law and compliance
- Team formation and mentorship by Odaaro throughout the process
Support:
- Weekly
- ins with Odaaro
- Demo Day presentation
- Certificates and recommendations upon completion
REQUIREMENTS- Ability to commit 10-15 hours per week for 12-16
- Currently enrolled student or recent
- Self-starter mentality - comfortable making decisions without predetermined
- Strong communication
- Willing to handle rejection and learn from
- Can work independently and as part of a remote team
WHAT MAKES THIS DIFFERENT? Traditional internships place you at a company where you shadow, observe, and complete tasks. Valuable for understanding how companies work. This program teaches you how companies start. You'll face the same challenges every founder faces:
- How do you validate a market need? - How do you price your service? - How do you handle customer objections? - What do you do when your first approach doesn't work? You'll learn by solving these problems, not by reading about them. SELECTION PROCESS1. Submit application at odaaro. Com/ventures/bitcoin-lisbon2. Application review: We evaluate for founder mindset, commitment, and team balance3. Selection We build a balanced team of 8-12 with diverse skills (technical, business, marketing, operations)4. Onboarding Accepted founders join 2 weeks before program start for setup and preparation
APPLY NOWApplication: odaaro. Com/ventures/bitcoin-lisbon
Questions: info@odaaro.commore Information:Application Deadline: November 3, 2025Program Start: December 3, 2025Demo Day: March, 2026We're looking for builders. If that's you, apply.