Food Venture Bootcamp
The flagship 12-week foot venture bootcamp is a weekly, live program for your early-stage food product founders. Taught by serial entrepreneurs, food industry experts including product developers and retail/food service buyers, this program is for business development centers, innovation centers, colleges, universities and not-for profit organizations who have food product founders needing help getting their products to market.
Who this Program is For
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Early-stage food or beverage founder with a product idea or very early-stage revenue
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Restaurant owner wanting to turn your recipes into a consumer packaged good
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Have a product already in small scale distribution (i.e. selling in a farmer's market) but want to get into retail
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Founders who have a nutrition/health product idea and unsure of regulations/appropriate business practices for health-related products
- All of our live programs are offered through organizations only (business centers, universities, colleges, innovation centers, etc)
Program Outline
1. Food Trends and Achieving Product Market Fit
2. Value Proposition and Business Model Canvas
3. Brand Storytelling
4.Circularity and Sustainability in Food
5. Food Science and Recipe Development
6. Sanitation, Food Safety and Traceability
7. Food Packaging and Nutrition Labeling
8. Financial Feasibility, Costing, Planning
9. Sales and Distribution
10. Social Media Management
11. Food Photography
12. Pitch Competition or Panel Discussion with Food Founders
Learning Objectives
Method of Delivery
What our Graduates are Saying
 Nadia
Founder - Café du Monde Crêperie
"This bootcamp helped me push through my limitations and helped me understand what I need to do in order to build my wholesale distribution model."
Jeff D.Â
Founder -Â Bajan Tyga Hot Sauce
"The FVA team combined to knock this program out of the park! I learned a lot in a very short amount of time and made some great connections too! Thanks!"
Gilles T
Founder of Taltis Foods
"This program gave me the confidence I needed to pitch for investment and get national distribution"
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