Only a few days left to apply and earn up to $5,000 in funding to kickstart your entrepreneurial journey! Apply here!
Have a creative, compelling idea you’ve been wanting to turn into something real?
In partnership with Heartland Forward, Builders and Backers is bringing an entrepreneurial program, the Idea Accelerator, to cities in the middle of the country, including communities across Northwest Arkansas.
The Idea Accelerator is a program designed to be your onramp to entrepreneurship. It equips participants with world-class entrepreneurial tools to test their idea, fueled by up to $5,000 no-strings-attached funding. This rapid-pace, 90-day, virtual program will help get your idea off the sidelines and into action. Learn and apply world-class entrepreneurial ways to run short, high-impact tests of your ideas. No entity, business plan or traction required to apply.
By learning how to run small tests of your idea, you will see if your business idea holds promise. You’ll see how no and low cost digital tools make it easier, faster and cheaper to build things than ever. You’ll learn how to evaluate the results of your test and decide on the best next steps.
“We meet aspiring entrepreneurs where they are so we can get more ideas up and running.”
Kickstart your entrepreneurial journey and join the Summer 2022 Cohort of Builders! To apply for this opportunity, you do not need a certain job title, role or affiliation. You do not need to have an existing legal entity or even need to be planning to start a venture. You simply need a problem you care about, an idea for addressing that problem, some early-stage thoughts on how you would experiment with that idea, and a willingness to learn.
The deadline to apply is May 30th. Apply Here.
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