NEXT Startups:
We help entrepreneurs gain confidence in their business plans – and themselves.

New businesses are key to the future of any community, as nearly all new job roles are created by startups, but getting support for taking to idea a business model that works is the first challenge founders face.

NEXT Discovery Workshop is an proven accelerator program that helps turn the ideas of prospective entrepreneurs into viable startups, and it’s specifically designed for underserved founder communities.

How It Works

The accelerator is seventeen modules delivered through interactive live sessions that help you build a business model from your idea:

We provide ongoing support through additional live virtual coaching modules:

Read Startup Stories

We help founders craft business models that work.

Hundreds of founders from across America have already taken the first steps toward turning their ideas into new startups through the NEXT Discovery Workshop accelerator

We helped 120Water build and manage their financial plan.
We helped 120Water build and manage their financial plan.
We helped Alleo develop and manage their go-to-market strategy.
We helped Alleo develop and manage their go-to-market strategy.
We helped FreshJax launch new high-growth product lines.
We helped FreshJax launch new high-growth product lines.
We helped Grantcycle with their funding strategy.
We helped Grantcycle with their funding strategy.
We helped MathTrack with their fundraising and go-to-market strategy.
We helped MathTrack with their fundraising and go-to-market strategy.
We helped PeerLyfe reformulate and refocus their business model.
We helped PeerLyfe reformulate and refocus their business model.
We helped Selflessly rebuild their go-to-market strategy.
We helped Selflessly rebuild their go-to-market strategy.

  • "This program really forced me to sit down and DO. I loved that I had to meet some deadlines and really start putting my concept together."

  • "The experience with my group was phenomenal and exactly what I needed as a new entrepreneur."

  • "Every time we were done with sessions, I couldn't believe how much I learned and had to sit with the information a bit before I could move forward to digest it."

  • "Overall, the information in the sessions themselves literally took me from 0 to 100 as an entrepreneur."

  • "I can't spell entrepreneur right, but I know to obsess about the problem, to be lean, know that timing matters, how to fill out and iterate on a lean canvas, all this stuff I didn't know 8 weeks ago."

  • "If I did not participate in this program, I wouldn't have made as much progress in my company as I did."