M B X a x A C C E L E R A T I O N C O U R S E S

 

THE COURSES


MBXax Entrepreneur Development

  • A 6 week course for first-time or early-stage entrepreneurs focused on crafting your best pitch yet!

  • Understand your product or service, and how to explain it to others in a way that makes sense.

  • Refine your understanding of who your customer is, what they want and need, and how to reach them.

  • Build a clear and concise pitch for customers, partners, investors, etc.

(The MBXax Regional Acceleration program delivers the Entrepreneur Development course to entrepreneurs or people with entrepreneurial ideas in Benton, Carroll, Cass, Clinton, Fountain, Montgomery, Pulaski, Warren, and White counties once a year at no charge for participants. This program also includes a full year of MatchBOX membership and membership to a local coworking space for free for graduates. Click here for additional program info.)

Interested applicants should submit the application below and designate their county of residence for consideration.



MBXax Venture Development

  • A 12 week course to help founders focus and grow their businesses with peer and mentor support.

  • Facilitated curriculum through 6 distinct sprints

    • Product Development

    • Customer Development

    • Marketing + Sales

    • Ops + Legal

    • Funding + Financials

    • Growth Strategy


THE PERKS

ENT DEV AND VENT DEV COURSES INCLUDE

  • Access to MatchBOX Coworking Studio space, community, and resources during the course

  • Free office hours access to business professionals, including lawyers, accountants, technologists, and HR experts

  • Graduate-only access to applications for microgrants, logo development, and landing page development resources

  • Access to MBX team, partners, and mentors for ideation, strategy, and coaching

Since its inception, the MBXax program has grown to graduate around 50 founders annually in and around Greater Lafayette. MatchBOX and its acceleration coaches have directly supported hundreds of entrepreneurs through MBXax programming.

Graduates of the Acceleration Course have:

  • started online and physical storefronts

  • filed patents

  • launched products

  • crowd-funded, received investment capital, and grant funding

  • found their first customer

  • pivoted concepts

  • been accepted to national and international accelerators

THE INVESTMENT

MBXax Entrepreneur Development

Cost to participate is only $99* or FREE for MatchBOX Members (Retail value of the program + perks = $1,000)



MBXax Venture Development

Cost to participate is only $499* or $99 for MatchBOX Members (Retail value of the program + perks = $5,000)



*A limited number of scholarship opportunities are available for applicants who apply.

If cost is a barrier, please email us.

APPLICATIONS

Submit an application below to be considered for an upcoming course.

The cohorts will meet once weekly with dates and times TBA. You are expected to be present for all sessions.