Sprint Stage
The Sprint stage provides participants with access to seed-funding, international experts and more.
The six-week Plus Eight Sprint program with sessions held weekly, is centred around skill building and business growth. The program is designed for those looking for structure, scale and growth for their current business or idea. It is a great way to receive feedback, learn from others, and immediately apply lessons to your idea.
Participants will be connected to a community of successful mentors, investors, and advisors. Over the six-weeks, participants will be in an environment that helps them grow their skills and take their business ideas to the next level.
Including:
- interactive presentations focusing on developing new business skills
- working with mentors and other business owners to expand your business
- hands-on activities.
Session topics and dates
| Topics | What you'll work on |
| Week 0 – June 24 | |
| Meet and Greet | Meet the participants. |
| Week 1 – July 1 | |
| How to build an enduring business – Business model development | Articulating your business model and how to make it sustainable. |
| Developing your unique value proposition. | |
| Understanding the competitor landscape and how you plan on competing. | |
| Week 2 – July 8 | |
| How to make a product your customers will love | Validation and customer testing. |
| Using design thinking to deeply understand your customers needs, goals and motivations. | |
| Undertaking research to develop key insights on what will make customers love your product. | |
| Week 3 – July 15 | |
| How to turn your idea into a reality – Product and prototyping | Defining design sprints to test your product proposition. |
| Making your Minimum Lovable Product. | |
| Determining the right approach for developing your product. | |
| Week 4 – July 22 | |
| How to make your business into a rocketship – Growth and marketing | Finding your first customer and building a loyal customer base. |
| Understanding pirate metrics and defining your growth marketing strategies. | |
| Selecting your digital marketing toolkit. | |
| Week 5 – July 29 | |
| How to stay sane while changing the world – Team, mindset and legal | Structuring your team and advisors. |
| Understanding company incorporation and shareholder agreements. | |
| Maintaining the right new business mindset. | |
| Ensuring you cross your t's and dot your i's (legal and IP). | |
| Week 6 – August 5 | |
| How to keep going up and to the right – Fundraising and pitching | Selecting the right fundraising approach, timing and strategy. |
| Developing your pitch ready to share your business with the world. | |
| Celebration Evening – August 12 | From family members, to industry professionals, this is a chance for you to showcase your business and what you've been working on and where you're going. |
Meet Megan from Behind the Brands
Megan created EMERSYN as an educational media platform and community for to mentor and support female founders to build high growth businesses.
Megan joined the Canning Business Mentoring Program and hear her experiences and leanings she had with the program. Megan is now one of the partners of the program and will be assisting female founders in the Start program.
Meet Renzo from Natraplas
Renzo created Natraplas, a company that supplies compostable products to Mining sites to reduce plastic waste.
Renzo joined the Canning Business Mentoring Program to get business advise. Hear his experiences and learnings with the program.
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