WINTER 2024 COHORT
A 12-week strategic planning program designed to help new entrepreneurs improve their technical and soft skills while working alongside entrepreneurs-in-residence, industry experts, mentors, and like-minded founders in the cohort. This program will help founders unlock their full potential, and propel their ideas to revolutionize industries and become innovative leaders.
6-Tailored Modules
6-Mastermind Sessions
Expert Coaches
Cohort Learning
Pitch Competition
Program graduates receive a free 1-Year membership to The Hub
Piloting Opportunities
Resources and Business Tools
Co-Working Space
Data Room Development
Funding Initiatives
THE MERIDIAN COHORT PROGRAM
Power Hour & Cohort Orientation
Welcoming entrepreneurs joining the Meridian cohort. A day of introductions, elevator pitches, and program orientation.
Learn how to model your business and translate that into a meaningful and executable business plan.
Determining your industry market size and financial viability is key for any business. Learn ways to properly identify your market size and understand how to analyze financial metrics and opportunities.
Explore different social media marketing channels that suit your needs and learn how to effectively promote your business to the right audiences
Learn the fundamentals of how to sell your product/service and drive leads and increase traffic to your website using search engine optimization.
Improve your written and verbal communication skills and see what the experts advise you to do, and not do, in your investor presentations. Learn to Pitch!
Understand the value of a Data Room, and how to better organize documents into an asset that helps investors save time.
Founders that have completed the program are eligible to pitch their ideas for a chance to be named Niagara’s Top Innovation, Wine and Cheese will take place during this event, Meridian to have presenting booth/table. High-level networking with Niagara’s innovation ecosystem.
Round-table talks after each module.
Experts-in-Residences
We’ve designed the business coaching experience to be completed as a mastermind session (group coaching) or independently with coaches from our in-house roster, including Head Coach, David D’Angelo. Our experts are here to help your business succeed, and keep you on track to achieve program goals.
COHORT COACHING CALENDAR
Module 1: Goal Setting
10:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Module 2: Mastermind Session
10:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Module 3: Mastermind Sessions
10:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Module 4: Mastermind Sessions
10:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Module 5: Mastermind Sessions
10:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Module 6: Mastermind Sessions
10:30 AM – 12:30 PM
TESTIMONIALS
APPLY TO THE 2024 WINTER COHORT
ELIGIBILITY
The Niagara Falls Innovation Hub invites you to join the Investor Readiness Program. For applicants to be accepted into the program, they must be/have:
- A Canadian Registered Start-Up Business.
- A minimum of one full-time founder, with a driven, coachable and collaborative mindset.
- Dedicated to the program, and have a minimal viable product or sound idea/concept.
- Willing to participate in-person for all learning modules
- Able to attending the Mastermind Coaching sessions
- Willing to participate in Niagara Falls Innovation Hub data collection activities for future programming
- Adhere to the Niagara Falls Innovation Hub’s Code of Conduct and Policies
If you have any questions or concerns about the application or questions about the Niagara Falls Innovation Hub in general, you can reach us by using our contact form.
