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Statewide Online Events

Explore the following online business education options that can be accessed from anywhere.


Raising Equity for Food Businesses

April 25, 2025 | 10:00AM | Online
Facilitated 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...

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Fee: $500.00



Navigating Uncertainty

May 5, 2025 | 1:00PM | Online
Facilitated 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 ...

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Fee: $1000.00



Marketing Plan for Food & Farm Businesses

May 6, 2025 | 9:00AM | Online
Facilitated 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...

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Fee: $35.00



SBIR 101 Webinar

May 20, 2025 | 12:00PM | Online
Facilitated 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...

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Fee: No Cost



NSF Presubmission Panel Review

June 10, 2025 | 12:00PM | Online
Facilitated 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...

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Fee: No Cost



SBIR 101 Webinar

June 25, 2025 | 12:00PM | Online
Facilitated 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...

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Fee: No Cost



From Ideas to Products (Virtual)

June 26, 2025 | 11:30AM | Online
Facilitated 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.

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Fee: No Cost



Biz Smart Sprint

June 26, 2025 | 4:00PM | Online
Facilitated 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 ...

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Fee: $239.00

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