
How is the Fellowship structured?
- 3 month immersive virtual program through structured mentorship and self-directed learning
- Fellows are supported by our invite-only Slack community that includes over 100 primary care leaders with expertise in
- patient care, clinical operations, and care coordination
- software engineering, product design, and marketing
- market access, health insurance, healthcare policy and law
- Fellows get free access to our Primary Care 101 Course
What are the responsibilities of the Fellow?
- There is no mandated daily or weekly time commitment from Fellows
- Proactively seek feedback and guidance from the XPC community
- Provide weekly updates on progress and learnings
What is the cost to the Fellow?
There is no financial or equity cost to the Fellow
What will be key activities for the Fellow?
- Building necessary skills to succeed as an early-stage founder
- Expanding professional rolodex
- Conducting market research
- Building minimum viable product
- Testing concepts with target users
- Refining business plan and go-to-market strategy
- Pitching ideas to potential partners and collaborators
What are XPC responsibilities to the Fellow?
- Provide access to Fellow with unfettered access to XPC resources, including curated connections through our rolodex
- Facilitate accountability to the Fellow to make their founder journey more structured and less isolating
- Serve as a sounding board for the Fellow and help stress test their ideas with our expertise in primary care
Why is this a Fellowship rather than an incubator or accelerator?
- We prioritize professional development over company growth
- We empower Fellows through curated mentorship, not intensive hands-on guidance
- We overlap with incubators in exploring early-stage ideas and providing guidance and networking opportunities
- We overlap with accelerators in structure (cohort-based and time-limited) and oversight on progress through milestones and deliverables