Build your business. Build your community. Grow together.

Build your business idea—or take a fresh look at the one you’ve started.

Define your offer, interview fellow participants and use their feedback to sharpen your business concept. Whether you’re starting fresh or working through a business challenge, leave with a clearer offer and a practical plan to test it with potential customers.

Know your costs. Set your price. Make room to pay yourself.

Work through the costs of your product or service—including materials, time and overhead. Test pricing options and calculate what it takes to cover costs and generate profit. Leave with a working pricing worksheet and a clearer understanding of your numbers.

Understand your numbers. Build a system. Make informed decisions.

Practice organizing income and expenses, planning cash flow and spotting potential shortfalls using your own figures or a realistic example. Leave with a starter financial tracking system, a working cash-flow plan and a routine for reviewing your business finances.

Know what you need—and what it takes to be ready.

Define your funding needs, compare financing options and assess what you should have ready before applying. Leave with a draft funding-use plan, a readiness checklist and practical next steps toward an appropriate funding source.