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Apply to QIncubator as Entrepreneur

Are you starting or thinking about starting your own business?

QIncubator (Entrepreneur)

Applications are currently open

Applications close on 23rd January, 2025

Acquire high-level entrepreneurial skills

This entrepreneur-led, 8-week programme combines enterprise training, expert coaching and peer-learning to accelerate success.

About the programme

Knowing where to start can be daunting, which is why this programme will help you define your ambitions, set goals and get you going. 

QIncubator supports you with the development of your business idea and startup.

The programme is designed to help entrepreneurs build viable and sustainable businesses, focusing on identifying problems and assumptions, testing these assumptions, and iterating the business based on the findings. 

Following completion of the programme, you can apply for one of our funding awards: Try It (£500), Grow It and Launch It (up to £3,000) or Build It (£10,000). You can find more information on each on our funding page.

 

 

Programme structure 

  • Week 1: Introduction, Design Thinking and Business Overview Canvas 
  • Week 2: Identifying Problem, Customer Development and Building Personas 
  • Week 3: Product/Market Fit, Risks and Competitors 
  • Week 4: Business Model, Pricing and Financial Forecasting 
  • Week 5: Pilot/MVP, Development Options and Team Building 
  • Week 6: Marketing Strategy and Go to Market Launch  
  • Week 7: Building Product Roadmaps and Determining The Ask 

 

Please note: this may be subject to change 

The next QIncubator will run  5th Feb - 26th March 2025. 

There will be teaching sessions every Wednesday evening between 6pm – 8pm, iQ East building, Mile End Road.

Applications are open now and will close on 23rd January, 2025.

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