BANGLADESH'S FIRST SELLING COMPETITION
A five-week sprint to take your product from first outreach to verified revenue. Real customers. Real money in the bank. Winners take home investment — not a trophy.
Dates TBD · Fully online · Grand finale live in Dhaka
Building has never been easier. Selling is the hard part — and the part nobody teaches. Sellathon is a competition where the only score that counts is verified revenue: new customers, sourced and closed during the sprint, with proof.
Bank, bKash, or Stripe proof — or signed contracts we can call and confirm. No LOIs, no promises, no cousins.
Finish every weekly milestone and your deposit comes back in full. Drop out and it rolls into the prize pool.
The champion takes real investment on published terms, awarded on stage at the Dhaka finale.
You do the prep before the clock starts. Then four weeks of nothing but selling — every single day.
Lock your ICP, sharpen your offer, set your price, and name your first 50 prospects. Pick your channels: cold email, cold calls, showing up in person — any mix, your call.
Volume. Hit your daily outreach minimum across your chosen channels and get into real discovery conversations.
Turn conversations into second meetings and demos. Understand the problem, qualify hard, book the next step.
Discovery to decision. Proposals out, objections handled, price negotiated without folding.
Close week. No new lessons — office hours and deal surgery only. Get money in the bank before the cutoff.
One 90-minute core session every week, plus optional deep-dives from the speaker lineup.
Every day, Bangladesh evening. Bring a stuck deal, leave with a next step.
Every team's milestone status, conversations booked, and verified revenue — visible to everyone, all five weeks, at sellathon.org.
Application-only. You need something sellable — a product, a service, a freelance offer.
A refundable commitment bond, not a fee. Finish and it all comes back. We make nothing from participants.
Clear the pre-week gate, then hit all four weekly milestones. Show your evidence. Stay on the leaderboard.
Full refund at the finale, in front of everyone. Winners take the investment on top.
Real investment on published terms, awarded on stage at the Dhaka finale. Amount and partners announced with applications.
Cash prizes boosted by every forfeited deposit, plus tools and credits from sponsors.
First Close. Biggest Deal. Best Global Deal — for the team that sells beyond Bangladesh.
The top teams present their verified revenue in person, investors in the room, deposits refunded on stage. Date and venue TBD.
Not consultants. Working sales professionals — account executives and sales leaders from big tech, startups, and Bangladesh's own market — teaching the exact motion they run every day. Lineup announced with applications.
Quota-carrying AEs from global tech companies on outreach, discovery, and closing.
Heads of sales and revenue who have built pipeline from zero at startups and scale-ups.
Founders who closed their first hundred customers themselves — no sales team, no excuses.
Sales leaders who know how deals actually get done in Dhaka, Chattogram, and beyond.
Are you an AE or sales leader who wants to teach a session or hold office hours? Tell us here — pick "Speaker / mentor."
Founders, freelancers, and small teams in Bangladesh with something real to sell. You don't need a polished product. You need the stomach to hear no fifty times and keep dialing.
Dates are being finalised. Join the waitlist and you'll hear first, before applications open publicly. Cohort 01 is planned for late 2026 with the finale in Dhaka.
No. Sell first, incorporate when you have customers. You need to be based in Bangladesh, 18 or older, with something people can pay for today. The only place an entity matters is the prize: the champion forms one to receive the investment.
Yes. Sellathon is about selling, not building. Enter with anything sellable, even rough: a software product, a service, a freelance offer, a physical product. Ideas without something to sell aren't eligible.
Both. Student teams, solo freelancers, and small companies are all welcome. One entry per product. Universities that want to put a group of teams forward: see the sponsors and partners page.
Yes, beyond a refundable ৳5,000 deposit. The deposit is a commitment bond, not a fee. Finish every milestone and you get every taka back at the finale. Deposits that are forfeited go into the prize pool, never to us. We make nothing from participants.
৳5,000, refunded in full at the finale when you finish. You pay it only after you're accepted and your pre-week submission is approved, so nobody pays before they're really in. If ৳5,000 feels like a lot, that's the point: it should hurt enough that you show up every day.
New, paid revenue from customers you sourced and closed during the sprint, verified through bank, bKash, or Stripe records, or signed contracts our team confirms directly with your customer. Pre-existing customers, LOIs, and promises don't count.
Yes, and we want them to be. There's a Best Global Deal award for the team that sells beyond Bangladesh. Proof works the same way: bank, Stripe, or Payoneer records, or a contract we can confirm.
No. Deals between cohort teams, or with related parties, don't count toward the leaderboard. Verification includes calling your customers, so don't try it.
You get a 48-hour cure window, once. Miss that and you come off the leaderboard and forfeit the deposit. Documented emergencies are handled case by case. Withdrawing because you changed your mind is a forfeit.
You're selling every day for four weeks, plus a prep week. The live session is 90 minutes once a week. Daily office hours are optional. If you can't put in real hours every day, wait for a later cohort.
Evenings, Bangladesh time, online, and recorded. Sessions are in English. Office hours run in English and Bangla.
A small verification team checks records and calls customers directly. Proof documents are seen only by that team. The public leaderboard shows your team, milestone status, conversations booked, and verified revenue, with customer details redacted.
The champion takes real investment on published terms, awarded on stage. Runners-up take cash boosted by forfeited deposits plus sponsor credits. Category awards for First Close, Biggest Deal, and Best Global Deal. Everyone who finishes gets their deposit back, a certificate, and a seat at the finale.
Fully online: live weekly sessions, daily office hours, and a WhatsApp community. Only the finale is in person, in Dhaka. Date and venue announced with applications.
Go to the sponsors and partners page. Universities can amplify the call or send teams. Sponsors get a five-week audience of founder-sellers. Volunteers review milestones, moderate the community, verify revenue, and crew the finale.
Please. There's a one-page flyer you can send, print, and pin up.
100 seats. Waitlist members hear first when applications open, and get first read. Selection is on merit — we read every one.
Put your brand in front of 100 founder-sellers and their thousands of prospects, and on stage at the Dhaka finale.
AEs and sales leaders: teach a 90-minute session or hold office hours. Bangladesh or abroad.
Review milestones, run the community, call customers for verification, crew the finale. We need hands.
NEXT STOP
Same rules. Same scoreboard. Waitlist is open now.