Welcome to the JumpSTART Incubator

“You don’t need to see the whole staircase…just take the first step and JumpSTART!”

Join our JumpSTART Incubator programme taking you along the entrepreneurial journey from idea generation to a minimum viable product!

Are you between the ages of 18-35 and ready to JumpSTART your Business?

Our JumpSTART Incubator Programme welcomes youths 18-35 years at ideation and early start-up stage, who need to strengthen their impassioned desire to step forward into that golden realm of entrepreneurship! This year our JumpSTART Incubator is brought to you online via Zoom Meetings! If your head is filled with questions such as:

Is this the right business for me?

Am I making the right decisions to make more money?

Do I have the right systems in place?

These are just some of the burning questions that our JumpSTART Incubator can answer!

For our next upcoming cohort, we are offering two streams: 1) The full live JumpSTART experience and 2) A self-paced learning, video recording only version. Please view options below.

State of the economy

This programme is valued at over $8,500, but thanks to the generosity of our sponsors, participants can access the course at a reduced price of $300 or at $150, for our Audit Only Access (details above).

ABOUT JumpSTART Incubator

Incubation Details:

5 months:
– 3 months of training
– 2 months of additional mentorship

Upcoming programme:

Start Date: September 5th

End Date: November 11th

What To Expect

Training Workshops

Over 50 hours of training focused on effectuation, design thinking, the business model canvas, and field testing, to develop your product and service with the customer in mind.

Mentorship Support

A unique opportunity to work alongside business mentors as sounding boards for ideas and guidance. You will be provided with five months of mentorship, during and after training to innovate or launch ideas!

Entrepreneur Resource Platform

Get special access to our resource platform, with relevant content to strengthen systems and develop ideas! Our platform provides tools, templates and videos for building a foundation at the early start-up stage

Pitch Presentations

Pitching among your peers is a major highlight! Participants would be required to pitch their businesses or ideas to an expert panel of judges, receiving advice and guidance.

The JumpSTART Experience

Testimonials

“I’ve always wanted to start a business but didn’t know where to start; when I saw the ad for the JumpSTART training I knew it was an ideal platform for me to explore my business idea.”
~ Bernice

“The programme open my eyes about other aspects about business I didn’t have a clue about.”
~Junior Nelson

“The JumpSTART Programme really helped me to reframe my business model from what I thought it should be to incorporating what my customer would want. It helped me to learn a lot more about the people I was serving which allowed me to make the changes that they need and in turn to make my business more successful.”
~ Alyssa

“JumpSTART did just what the name suggests, I was at a point in my business where I did not know where to turn, after joining this program and apply each step back into the business I saw the flaws in my method and I was able to work to improve the business as the class went along.”
~ Thandiwe