Raising Equity for Food Businesses
April 25, 2025 | 10:00AM | OnlineFacilitated by: Food Finance Institute
Topic: Financing
Raising Equity is designed to help food and farm businesses successfully raise money, both debt and equity. Instructed by FFI Founder and Innovative Finance Expert, Tera Johnson, this training helps companies raise money legally and effectively. Through four live virtual group sessions and two on...
Navigating Uncertainty
May 5, 2025 | 1:00PM | OnlineFacilitated by: Food Finance Institute
Topic: Managing a Business
In this 4-session program, enterprise leaders will develop different stories of how the future could unfold and craft strategies for addressing both planned and unplanned changes. From government policy shifts, emerging AI and automation impacts, and weather disruptions, to food safety protocols ...
Marketing Plan for Food & Farm Businesses
May 6, 2025 | 9:00AM | OnlineFacilitated by: Food Finance Institute
Topic: Marketing and Sales
This workshop helps you to define, align, and activate your brand to stand out in the marketplace and maximize your business product line and net margin.
Topics Covered
Food, beverage, and value-added farm founders, entrepreneurs, or marketing leaders of all stages who want to defin...
SBIR 101 Webinar
May 20, 2025 | 12:00PM | OnlineFacilitated by: Center For Technology Commercialization
$4.5 Billion dollars in product development is available, maybe to you! Learn more about how you might tap the largest seed fund in this brief overview (and how we can help for free).
The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfe...
NSF Presubmission Panel Review
June 10, 2025 | 12:00PM | OnlineFacilitated by: Center For Technology Commercialization
Topic: Start-up Assistance
Do you plan to submit to NSF in July? Please register with CTC to participate in our free Presubmission Panel Review. CTC, in collaboration with a panel of expert reviewers, will simulate the NSF review process to help you improve your SBIR/STTR proposal ahead of the September deadline. This regi...
SBIR 101 Webinar
June 25, 2025 | 12:00PM | OnlineFacilitated by: Center For Technology Commercialization
Topic: Start-up Assistance
$4.5 Billion dollars in product development is available, maybe to you! Learn more about how you might tap the largest seed fund in this brief overview (and how we can help for free).
The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (ST...
From Ideas to Products (Virtual)
June 26, 2025 | 11:30AM | OnlineFacilitated by: Center For Technology Commercialization
Topic: Start-up Assistance
You have an idea, you may have started the initial research on it, and now you're trying to see what's next?
Join us virtually to learn more about lean startup mechanics, the SBIR/STTR program, and the services that are provided by the CTC.
Agenda:
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Biz Smart Sprint
June 26, 2025 | 4:00PM | OnlineFacilitated by: Wisconsin SBDC at UW - Madison
Topic: Start-up Assistance
Biz Smart Sprint is your introduction into the world of entrepreneurship. In this live, virtual 6-week course, you will learn the building blocks you need to become a successful entrepreneur. Each week, you'll discover the key components you need to start a business, including the Business Model ...