Helping founders find community and connections
During this four-part bootcamp, you’ll collaboratively work with peers to strategize, problem solve, and apply business basics to your idea or venture. Our goal is to challenge you, stretch your thinking, and give you concrete tools to bring your business to life. This bootcamp is not about listening; it’s about doing.
Provides students with an opportunity to develop job-related skills in the business realm while increasing awareness of their roles and responsibilities in society through their profession. This program offers two different pathways, accounting, and management. The accounting pathway is offered completely online, giving students the freedom to learn from anywhere.
Learn more →8 weeks program that teaches you everything you will need to learn, research, consider and even not do when starting a new business. This course is filled with checklists, lists of important questions to ask, worksheets, internet resource guides, and much more.
Learn more →Action-driven, collaborative process with a small and supportive group of like-minded people. Over ten weeks, you will identify your assumptions about why and how your businesses will work and then talk to customers in order to validate your ideas. This approach enables you to rapidly uncover flaws in your concept and find viable models more quickly. You’ll leave the program with a deeper understanding of how to create a sustainable business, articulate your model, and repeat the process with your next great idea.
Learn more →In this course, you will learn how to write a business plan in 24 hours. This class will give participants all the information they will need to write a business plan that clearly outlines the owner’s current position and plans for the future.
Learn more →Nation’s only incubator accelerator focused solely on commercializing chemistry-based technologies, including traditional and green chemistry, biotechnology, advanced materials, energy and more.
Learn more →Focused on creating conditions for workforce, business, and industry growth in the 21-county ACT Now region through community coaching and planning, site development, and business development services.
Learn more →Series of short community workshops, panels and talks focused on key skills and knowledge essential to “creating” for the creative entrepreneurs. The Creators Program, directed by WVSU EDC's director and Artist in Residence, Eric Douglas, packages expertise from some of the most accomplished individuals and companies in their fields (film, videography, photography, animations, podcast, and producing) to deliver information you need to move your ideas forward.
Learn more →Supports community capacity building through leadership development, team development, and small-scale community projects. Our goal is to help your community create long-term engagement from residents and new opportunities for community leadership, all while building positive momentum for your area. We offer community coaching; workshops, funding for community projects; and leadership development opportunities.
Learn more →Three-hour workshop helps participants work together to explore their ideas through the CO.STARTERS Canvas, learn how to refine their models through meaningful customer feedback, and define next steps.
Learn more →8 months program to identify, develop, and sustain community leaders. It aims to develop and enhance personal leadership skills, provide knowledge enrichment of Marion County, and cultivate leadership involvement throughout Marion County.
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