Introducing Collaborator Academy by Openfor.co
- Erdinc Ekinci
- Aug 24, 2022
- 4 min read
Updated: Sep 10, 2022

The majority of startups don’t have any partnership program, even though 1 in 3 of revenue can come from partnerships. It's just like not having a website in the 2000s! In today’s world, partnerships are the same. It’s just like leaving money on the table.
However, getting results quickly from partnerships can be difficult. That’s why you need to set up a partner program that helps your audience with easy collaborations and step-by-step guidelines with an efficient partner-onboarding process.
You can also achieve that on your own, but it generally takes longer to get some results out of partnerships and monetize. Our platform helps you to turn your audience into collaborators and monetize it with our built-in revenue share model.
With us, even startups who don’t even have revenue yet can start generating revenue while attracting investors, partners, and customers! If you want to learn about partnerships, check our blog on Why Partnership is important for Growth?. We have the complete partnership development solution to help startups to grow faster.
We have a platform membership for ongoing support and revenue share,
We have a collab marketplace for getting found and discovering other partner programs from all around the world.
And we have the collaborator academy to teach how to leverage collaborations to grow your business.
In this article, we are going to further discuss the common partnership challenges and myths and how our platform and our Collaborator Academy can help!
Here is the topic that we will cover in this blog
1. Mistakes and Myths about Partnership
What people generally confuse about partnerships is that it's only necessary after the growth stage. Actually, it is not so true. You can utilize partnerships from the very early stages. Your co-founder, your investor, your early adopter customer, or even the startup accelerator program that you joined are your partners as well.
“With us even startups who don’t even have revenue yet can start generating revenue while attracting investors, partners, and customers!”
2. Common Partnership Development Challenges
Even though you validated your business, and even have secured Venture Capital funding, there are still many challenges in building and maintaining partnerships. Some of them include:
Credentialism especially from larger enterprises
Getting traction and a feedback loop is not easy and inconsistent
Sustaining a business development deal flow
Identifying, evaluating, and catching opportunities rapidly
Getting meaningful introductions continuously
Turning introductions and opportunities into collaboration rapidly
Monetization partnerships rapidly
Building long-term feasible partner relationships
That's why OpenFor.Collaborator Academy is here to help to learn “how to overcome these challenges” with our well-designed curriculum, hands-on workshops, guest expert support, community support, and many more benefits with a year-long platform membership attached.
3. What is Openfor.co’s Collaborator Academy Program?
The Collaborator Academy helps you to create your own partnership program to start generating more revenues quickly. It's a 4 weeks program, 1 session per week to accelerate your Partnership Development process.
“All the successful startups and highly influential people leverage partnerships and collaborations to increase their revenue. There is no secret, it's all about creating a condition that results in a 1+1=3 equation.”
You will learn how build a partner program with us, grow a collaborative audience, and increase your revenues!
What is the Program's Curriculum?
This program will be breakdown into the following aspects:
Discovery
Ideation
Development
Collab day
Launching
These programs are designed for everyone to join and are not limited to only startups since they also include several aspects for corporate professionals.
Who is this Collaborator Academy for?
Anyone who wants to leverage partnerships to create more opportunities and revenue streams can join this program. Any stages of startups, large enterprises, or even creative-preneurs and professionals are eligible to join. Because we intended this program to help you increase revenue by creating partnerships and collaborations.
For startups: Grow your revenues, get partner exposure, more tractions, and funding,
For professionals: Leverage your career and your company at the same time,
For larger enterprises: Adapt, incentivize and grow with 3rd parties.
Who is this Collaborator Academy Not for?
This isn't for you if...
You don’t care about discovering what your collaborative competencies are and how to make them stronger.
You do not have the confidence to put yourself out there and showcase your openness to collaborate with other people and organizations.
You don't want to put up work to get your business to grow without any effort.
You are hoping to get just sales, or just lead generation...
You are hoping for a certain concrete number of results. That's not how it works. We'll do our best to teach you the systems and processes that have worked for us and our students, but we can't 'guarantee' any specific result.
You are hoping we can serve you. It’s a Bootcamp that you will need to work on, in collaboration with us. So your success will be up to your effort.
Benefits of Joining this Collaborator Academy
We will help you discover which partnership types you require, how to design partnership programs, how to recruit, and how to manage the partnership programs for sustainable growth.
By the end of this program you will gain so much, here are a few examples:
Self-Discovery for identifying collab opportunities
Showcase page
Contents for the buzz
World Class Partnership Pitch
Learnings / Knowhow
Collab Community
Fundraiser club
Careers & Gigs Clubs
Revenue share program
Better, bigger, stronger - Together.
We have even more perks…!
🪢 Community channel
🤝 Content collabs
🌐 Global networking
🤯 1-year post-grad support
Plans and Packages
We do have three types of programs and packages.
🎉ALL THE PLANS ARE FOR FREE OF CHARGE FOR OUR MEMBERS! 🎉
Essential
Essential - 1,000$ USD FREE for Essential Premium members.

Growth
Growth - 9,000$ USD FREE for the Growth Premium members.

Exclusive Pack
Same plan as the growth plan but for more than 10 people and exclusively arranged for your firm and partially customizable. Contact us for more learning more about exclusive pack!
Based on the programs that you joined, you can also earn up to 20% revenue share for the referral from us immediately as well. After you join our program, we will give you free access to plenty of public events that will help you discover more of your ideas in the future.
Please check out our openfor.co Collaborator Academy for more details about the curriculum. We are going to launch our first batch of cohort recruitment soon.
Join our waiting list and get a chance get a FREE seat!
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