Daniyar Ruziyev
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We visited 40 offices in our neighborhood, and six agreed to a trial week. Two offices have already paid for a month of lunches.
Money in this post
84,000 ₸
Payment received
Fellowship for entrepreneurs. Build your project. Show real progress.
We are looking for people who move their own projects forward. Up to two participants receive a fellowship of up to 150,000 ₸ for every four weeks of work. We take no equity.
2
places per cohort
150,000 ₸
maximum per four weeks
0%
equity taken
We award the fellowship based on results. We may choose no one.
Who the program is for
It does not matter whether you study, work or already run a business. What matters is that you try things, talk to customers and change your plan based on results.
You act without instructions
You set a hypothesis, find a way to test it and do it without waiting for permission.
You talk to customers
You sell, call and message people who need your product, and listen to what they say.
You learn from results
Nobody bought, so you change the approach. Someone bought, so you work out what worked. Both go into a post.
Any industry
Services, trade, products, technology. You can start with an idea if you test it in practice.
A good fit if
- You have a project or an idea you want to work on yourself
- You have time every week to take steps and write about them
- You enjoy selling and talking to customers
- You want a public history of your project to show people
Not a fit if
- You expect money just for taking part
- You are looking for an internship or a job at Agartu
- You do not want to share posts and numbers publicly
- You expect someone to give you tasks and a plan
Eight weeks to the first payment
For the first four weeks you show actions and results with no fellowship guaranteed. Then we decide whom to support, and after that we review results every four weeks.
Application
Now
Tell us about yourself, your project and your first hypothesis. We reply within three working days. You can start posting about your project right away.
Cohort intake
Until five people join
The cohort starts once it has five participants. We email the start date to everyone at once.
First four weeks
Weeks one to four
Test hypotheses and post about your attempts and results. Add the money you received right in the post. There is no fellowship at this stage.
Decision
Week five
We look at the results and decide whom to pay. There are up to two places, and we may award fewer, even none.
With the fellowship
Weeks five to eight
We sign a private fellowship agreement and you keep working and posting. At the end of week eight we review the results and pay up to 150,000 ₸ under the agreement.
Next periods
Every four weeks
Based on results, we extend the fellowship, end it or pass it to another participant. Without the fellowship you can keep working on your project.
What you keep even without the fellowship
- A public, dated history of your project, visible on your profile
- Experience of selling and testing hypotheses with real customers
- A conversation with us about your results, if you want one
Your report is a regular post
There is no separate report form. You tell the story of your project and share what you achieved in posts, and we count it as your result.
- Write which hypothesis you are testing, what you did and what happened
- When money comes in, add the amount to the post and choose what it is. Payment, a contract without payment or barter
- A receipt, a payment order or a Kaspi screenshot can be shown to us only. Under an NDA, hide client names
- Amounts without proof are shown apart from verified ones
Week three of the cohort
Verified
This is how a participant's post looks. The project is made up for the example.
Amount statuses
ClaimedUnder reviewVerifiedRejected
Results are visible to everyone
Once the cohort starts, the participant table appears here. Verified money comes first, claimed amounts sit next to it separately.
Participants accepted
of 5
The cohort starts once there are five participants. You can apply now and start posting before the start, the posts stay in your project.
What we count
Money that has actually arrived during the period. Contracts without payment and barter appear in the post but not in the total.
How we sort
Participants with verified revenue go first. Everyone else follows by the number of posts in the period.
Who decides
The ranking helps us look at results. We make the fellowship decision ourselves.
How we choose
Results
Money, customers and how the project changed in four weeks.
Independence
How much of the work you came up with and did yourself.
Quality of tests
A clear hypothesis, an honest experiment and a conclusion about what to do next.
Honesty
The numbers match the story, and failures are described as openly as wins.
We take the ranking into account, but the decision is ours. There may be one fellowship or none if we do not see the right result. We review the decision every four weeks.
«We want to find and attract people who are ready to be entrepreneurs. To set hypotheses, look for ways to carry them out and then make sense of the results. In short, we want to find those who are ready to learn on their own.»
What people ask most
If your answer is not here, write to us. We reply within two working days.
Start with an application
Four short steps and a reply within three working days. You can post about your project right after you submit.