ABOUT THE PROGRAM
What you can expect
This twelve-week course includes a five-week business model validation course, three financial literacy workshops, and pitching sessions. This course is designed to help emerging business leaders create a sustainable business model and develop a framework for validating that model.
There is no cost for this program.
What you get
- Support and coaching through your market validation and preliminary product development
- Access to a co-working desk at the Innovation Hub
- Weekly virtual peer group meetups
- An assessment of your business model by North Forge staff and expert mentors
- Virtual one-on-one training sessions with industry experts
- Introductory financial literacy for business
- Early stage pre-marketing activities to validate your business market validation
- Early stage market validation pitch development training
Expected outcomes
- Demonstrated product-market fit/or not
- A market validation pitch that you will present
- An early road map on how to incorporate your validation activity into early marketing activities and why that’s important
- Early financial understanding of your business
“We have benefited from the guidance and advice from the team at North Forge to reach our milestones.”
“We have benefited from the guidance and advice from the team at North Forge to reach our milestones.”
“North Forge has been absolutely crucial in shaping and refining our concept and turning concept into reality. The breadth and depth of knowledge and real-world experience that entrepreneurs can access through the North Forge network are unparalleled.”
“North Forge is an essential element of the success of any aspiring entrepreneur that wants to succeed in our growing innovation ecosystem. The community, access to technology and collision of innovative minds isn’t possible anywhere else in Manitoba. North Forge is the only place I recommend you go to get your idea off the ground.”
“North Forge helped us navigate the startup ecosystem by offering industry insights and facilitating important connections with funders, partners and customers. Through their mentorship program we have been challenged, supported and are equipped to succeed – overcoming the many obstacles facing a startup company.”
“Our North Forge mentors helped us to dream big and then gave us solid advice to execute on those dreams. I started two companies inside North Forge. The first is company is now a multi-million dollar firm and we are preparing the second company for a super-angel financing round.”
“North Forge provides startups with the resources and network necessary to succeed. All startups in Manitoba should be part of this innovative ecosystem.”