Southern Tier Manufacturing Readiness Accelerator Training
Tailored to early stage manufacturers
This program is designed to help early stage manufacturers reduce time, risk, waste and cost associated with getting a product to mass production.
Event Schedule
- Saturday, March 1, 2025
- 10:00am - 3:00pm
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Incubator Works - Elmira location, 318 Madison Avenue, Elmira, NY 14901
Lunch will be served!
- Tuesday, March 4, 2025
- 6:30pm - 8:30pm
- Virtual
- Thursday, March 6, 2025
- 6:30pm - 8:30pm
- Virtual
Accelerator Training Overview:
If you are an early stage entrepreneurial manufacturer, you are probably asking yourself many questions!
- Is your product idea ready for market?
- Is your business ready to execute?
- Is there funding out there that I can leverage to accelerate my product development cycle?
- Who can help me answer these questions?
Why Attend?
In addition to learning tools to help you validate your product in the marketplace and how to get it built, you will have the opportunity to engage with fellow entrepreneurs in your area walking the same journey.
Who is the Workshop for?
This event is targeted at early stage manufacturers / startups looking to smartly accelerate their product development and launch. “Manufacturers” includes companies that make / assemble any products such as wood, metal, & plastic products, food & beverage, etc.
Curriculum Content:
Our training is geared towards entrepreneurs that want and need answers to these questions. Learn how to size your market, do competitive analysis, and who can help you move things forward (both technically and financially). The accelerator consists of the following:
- Is My Product Viable?
- The Business Model Canvas: How to assess your idea, how and where it fits to potential customers
- Resources available to help
- Is My Design Complete?
- Prototyping
- What do I need to build my prototype?
- Development funding and technical resources
- How Will My Product Get Made and Sold?
- Contracting production
- Using a contract manufacturer
- Maintaining quality
- Funding and technical resources
- How Will I Run the Business?
- Estimating costs / projections
- Distribution
- Building awareness – marketing and sales
- Bringing it to market
- Tracking systems and part numbers
- Cash flow
- Funding and technical resources
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