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Get your business started with CEO Start

Come learn how CEO Start can help you get your business started.

CEO Start powered by CO.STARTERS is a 10-week cohort-based program that prepares aspiring and existing entrepreneurs with insights, relationships, and tools to turn their ideas into viable businesses.

Cohorts of 10 to 15 entrepreneurs will work through the nationally recognized curriculum focused on testing ideas and identifying key assumptions through interviews, peer-to-peer conversation, research, and facilitated discussions on key foundational elements.

Participants who complete the program will walk away with a solid foundation of business fundamentals, access to resources, a community of support, an understanding of their next steps, and the confidence to move forward with their idea.

This cohort is powered by CO.STARTERS, in collaboration with Hennepin County and the city of Bloomington.

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Get your business started with CEO Start

Date

January 22, 2025

Time

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Location

Online

Presented by

CO.STARTERS and Elevate Hennepin

Cost

Free

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