Step One: Learn Quickly
What we do
- Info sessions: learn about us & explore entrepreneurship.
- Food Business Boot Camp: 3 week course for start-up businesses (English and Spanish)
- Seminars: Drop-in learning sessions
Benefits
- All resources in only one place
- A faster way to gather all information
- English, Spanish and interpretation in other languages
- You meet experts face to face
- Pay as you can
- Avoid costly mistakes
- Lower rate to rent kitchen
Step Two: Launch Successfully
Apply to our program services – then have access to everything you need to get going:
- Portland Mercado: a market with space to launch your business
- Capital: get the money necessary to start your business (tandas, IDAs)
- Advising: one-on-one guidance from experts as you launch and grow
- Kitchen: An affordable, community-based space to make your products
- Sales opportunities: Take advantage of our network to get your product out there
- Connections to resources and our partners, that vary from graphic design to insurance to legal advice