Find Customers for Your New Business (Trailblazing Week 1 | IN PERSON)

Have you struggled to find paying customers for your new business?

Participants will learn who will be the most likely to be their first customers. You will learn about early adopters and how you can find them.

By the end of the session, you will:

• Identify possible early adopters for your business;
• Create your first two slides for your pitch deck: The Problem Slide & The Customer Slide.

By the end of the workshop series, you will:

• Build a strong foundation for your business idea;
• Build a pitch deck that you can use in the upcoming Launch Point Pitch Competition (see below);
• Build a network of like-minded entrepreneurs, mentors, and community supports.

What is Trailblazing?

Trailblazing is a 6-week program that will help you design a fool-proof business based on an idea. You will learn how to think like an entrepreneur, which will help you become a better problem solver and thinker. Trailblazing will help you either start your own business or gain a competitive advantage in landing your dream job. You will also be invited to enter the Launch Point Pitch Competition where you could win $2,000!

Learn more about the full series and register for more sessions here.

Here's a glimpse of the full series:

• WEEK 1: Find Customers for Your New Business | February 6th – 12th
• WEEK 2: Beat Out the Competition | February 13th – February 19th
• BREAK | February 20th – 26th
• WEEK 3: Make Your Idea Unbeatable | February 27th – March 5th
• WEEK 4: Make Money in Your New Business | March 6th – March 12th
• WEEK 5: Build Your New Business Idea | March 13th – March 19th
• WEEK 6: Pitching Your New Idea for Results | March 20th - March 26th

The Launch Point Pitch Competition

The Launch Point Pitch Competition is a high-energy competition to elevate early-stage entrepreneurs on their start-up journey. It provides new founders an opportunity to pitch, validate, and help launch their business idea. Competitors will be challenged to convey:

• the need for their business solution;
• their ability to create and deliver their business idea; and
• their ability to build a sustainable business that will grow over time.

Applications open February 1st, 2023 and close March 30th, 2023.

Learn more about the competition and apply here.