A cohort-based, two-part course to help innovators in Indiana start and accelerate connected hardware businesses and build prototypes.

  • The first half of the Product Accelerator is a 7 week course for first-time or early-stage entrepreneurs focused on the business idea and how to pitch it.

    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.

    This half of the program includes a new or refreshed logo for your company via MBX design partners, basic landing page setup via MBX development partners, free office hours access to business professionals, including lawyers, accountants, technologists, and HR experts, and access to microgrant applications.

  • The second half of the Product Accelerator pairs program participants with a panel of prototyping and project management mentors to guide them through the process of identifying ideal fabrication processes to develop a works-like or sketch prototype for the product-based business.

    Along with the mentors guiding the entrepreneurs throughout the prototype process, they will have the opportunity to meet with Indiana-based leaders in IoT deployments and present their design concepts for evaluation. This session will allow the entrepreneur to enhance or refine their idea based on feedback from industry professionals.

    Entrepreneurs in the Product Accelerator program will tap into funding and resources to work through the stages of prototype development and will graduate from the program with a prototype.

  • Upon completion of both the Business Acceleration and Prototype Acceleration components of the Product Accelerator, entrepreneurs in the cohort will pitch their business and share their prototype with potential mentors, partners, and investors at an event that brings together statewide partners, program grads, and program facilitators.

 
 
 

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Limited spots available in each cohort.