Is it time to turn your creative idea into a business?
Winston-Salem-based Center for Creative Economy announced the launch of Kinetic, a bootcamp designed for creatives and artists who are ready to launch a business.
Creatives will learn how to:
- Validate your creative idea
- Develop a business model
- Identify who your customers are and start talking to them
- Build a budget to understand your expenses and revenue
Kinetic is designed for you to take that cool idea you’ve been thinking about and create a mission, vision and value proposition for a potential customer. Do you want to bring this to life, but don’t know how? Kinetic can help you ideate and implement!
Important dates:
December 5: Application opens
February 2: Application closes
February 12: Selected participants are notified
February 28: Kinetic begins
March 28: Kinect ends
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