The Aspiring Entrepreneur Program is a 10-week cohort program focused on education. Participants will leave with a validated business idea, an action plan, and a new entrepreneurial mindset that they can use to excel in their current job, leverage relationships and, of course, start or maintain a business.

Program includes:
  • Strategic planning
  • Business validation
  • Curriculum and materials
  • Certification support
  • Mentoring
  • Networking events
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Outcomes

The program isn’t a business class. Instead, it is a preventive maintenance step to enhance the entrepreneurial mindset and develop functional skill sets to see and act like an entrepreneur.

After completing this course, you will be able to:
Understand business models and types of businesses
Identify opportunities based on real customer needs
Develop a promotion/ marketing campaign to appeal to consumers
Develop solid business models
Identify and develop great ideas into great companies
Create the company strategy
Understand access to capital
Create successful companies

How We Do It

The Aspiring Entrepreneur Program includes business development-focused workshops combined with confidential, one-on-one counseling in the areas of business management, financial literacy, and marketing.

Who It's For

Anyone with a business idea
Underemployed
Artists/creatives
New business owners
Students
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