• Invitations will be sent out to the IT companies operating in Pakistan.
  
  
• In order to provide IT Companies an introduction to BAP and its salient features three Introductory Sessions will be conducted at Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi
  
  
• Teams from IT companies have to fill out the prescribed Application Form as best as they can and also prepare a 1-2 page Executive Summary(ES) that contains the following information: a) what markets are addressed, b) how big are these markets, c) what is unique about the company offering, d) what does the company like to get out of BAP, e) basic financial projections, f) contact info and g) basic statistics: # of employees, sales figures, channel, etc.
  
  A Business Acceleration Workshop (BAW) would be conducted to help the teams to finalize the BAP Applications Forms (AF) & Executive Summaries (ES). In the workshop firstly what is good a Business Plan, how to fill the AF, how to prepare a good ES and what the VCs/Judges are looking for will be presented. This will be followed by one-to-one mentoring of the teams. Teams using the knowledge gained in BAW should finalize their AFs and ES and email these along with undertakings.
  
  
• A screening will be done on the applications to select candidate companies.
  
  
• Local Mentoring/Coaching will be provided to team members from the selected teams at Karachi, Lahore or Islamabad.
  
  
• The teams would then submit their Draft Business Acceleration Plan (BPs).
  
  
• Foreign Mentors/Coaches would then be assigned to each team to come up with the final BPs. This coaching will be done through email/phone/chats/audio-video conferences.
  
  
• The final BPs and draft presentations will be submitted for scrutiny and finalists will be selected based on this information.
  
  
• The finalists will make presentations to the judges. A ceremony would be held in which the winners, runner-ups, other finalists and other selected teams will be given awards, shields and certificates.