3/16/2018 - 5/18/2018

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Applications Now Being Accepted for Spring 2018 IGNITE Community Accelerator
 

Workforce Training Center
5600 Eagle Rock Avenue NE
Albuquerque, NM 87102

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Kerri Eichwald
(phone: 224-4000, x53299)

Applications are now being accepted for the Spring 2018 IGNITE Community Accelerator, an entrepreneurial accelerator that helps fledgling businesses grow up fast. Offered by CNM Ingenuity, Inc. and to be held at the Workforce Training Center, IGNITE Community Accelerator is an intensive, 10-week program designed to lift their businesses to greater heights while generating momentum for the region’s entrepreneurial and economic development efforts.
John Cousins, CEO of MBA ASAP will be the program facilitator and brings his unique and vast background of entrepreneurial experience to inspire and develop new business ventures. The IGNITE Community Accelerator is scheduled to start its sixth cohort on Friday, March 16th, and will run for 10 weeks. IGNITE Day, a time when participants celebrate the conclusion of the program by pitching their companies and demonstrating their products, will be May 18, 2018.
Offered at no cost and open to developing businesses and early startups, the IGNITE Community Accelerator provides each business owner with business services and support valued at more than $15,000, which includes personal business coaching and mentoring by a successful entrepreneur in a similar field.
These companies will get to take advantage of IGNITE services that include: up to 30 hours of one-on-one business coaching; 10 hours of business workshops; 48 hours of intense business training; access to co-working space at the Workforce Training Center throughout the 10-week program; access to the FUSE Makerspace to help with prototype development if needed; support in developing a 100-day tactical plan for the business after the Accelerator is over; and additional coaching after the program to help with implementing the 100-day tactical plan.
The IGNITE program offers ten full program days of entrepreneurship curriculum that includes:

• 1^st Friday –  Entrepreneurship 101 and The Power to Choose
• 2^nd Friday – Recognizing Opportunities and Telling Your Story
• 3^rd Friday – Marketing and Branding Strategies
• 4^th Friday – Knowledge, Learning, and the Perfect Customer
• 5^th Friday – Identifying Your Customer, Targeting Your Market
• 6^th Friday – Ideas Into Action and Building Your Business Model
• 7^th Friday – Financial Literacy
• 8^th Friday – Building a Successful Network
• 9^th Friday - IGNITE Day Practice
• 10^th Friday- IGNITE Day

For more information and to apply, visit the website at http://stemuluscenter.org/ignite-community-accelerator. 

• http://https://stemuluscenter.org/ignite-community-accelerator/

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3/16/2018 - 5/18/2018

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