Are you an Arts undergraduate student interested in starting your own venture? Are you keen to find a mentor who can help you advance your idea? Are you curious about what it takes to get a venture off the ground?
This customized training for UBC Arts majors, offered in collaboration with Innovation UBC, offers you support to conceive, research, design, and prototype a start-up, agency, venture, project, product, or service, or to kick-start running your own initiative, business, or not-for-profit society. You’ll learn from experts at Innovation UBC, receive mentorship from Arts alumni who run their own ventures, and get feedback on your ideas.
The program includes a commitment to three workshops (plus one optional workshop), a kickoff and closing event, individual meetings with an Arts entrepreneur-in-residence, a final presentation, and your own time working on your idea.
By the end of the program, you’ll know what steps you would need to take to launch your own venture, and you’ll have the support from a mentor to ensure you feel ready. You’ll also receive a document of completion if you finish all the required parts of the program, which you can add to your resume and portfolio.
There is no cost to participate.
The Details:
- Kickoff Event (Jan 21, 1–3pm) is about meeting the instructors and your cohort and learning more about how we’ll approach entrepreneurship together.
- Workshop 1 (Feb 14, 1–4pm) is all about developing your concept, translating those ideas into reality, and discovering potential clients and customer bases. You will learn to develop and utilize a value proposition canvas, map potential stakeholders based on their roles, and develop customer discovery skills.
- Workshop 2 (Feb 25, 1–3pm) will focus on understanding your market. You’ll clarify your idea by creating positioning statements that identify your value and you’ll learn how to map the marketplace and distinguish your venture from available alternatives.
- Workshop 3 (Mar 11, 1-3pm) will explore economic models and pricing strategies, and help you determine how—or if!—you’ll generate income from your work.
- Workshop 4 (Mar 25, 1-3pm—optional) in this optional workshop we’ll explore how to build and maintain a brand identity.
- Final Showcase (Apr 1, 1-3pm) this final meeting is an opportunity for you to share and receive feedback on your venture from peers and mentors. l about developing your concept, translating those ideas into reality, and discovering potential clients and customer bases. You will learn to develop and utilize a value proposition canvas, map potential stakeholders based on their roles, and develop customer discovery skills.
Additional required meetings
- 3 x 15-minute meetings with the Arts alumni entrepreneur-in-residence (to be scheduled individually)
Registration closes on January 15, 2025.
Entrepreneurship for Arts Majors is part of a series of events in The Compass: Arts Students Engagement Hub. Offered in collaboration with Innovation UBC, it offers Arts students support to conceive, research, design, and prototype a start-up, agency, venture, project, product, or service, or to kick-start running an initiative, business or not-for-profit society.
