BUILD Class Registration
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Winter 2025
Co.Starters February 2025
- February 6, 2025 - April 10, 2025
- In Person at BUILD
- 6pm - 9pm on Thursdays
- $350 or less - Sliding scale in effect!
- Facilitated by Evelyn Stokes
Co.Starters is a 10-week business development program designed for aspiring entrepreneurs to put ideas into action and turn a passion into a sustainable and thriving small business. During Co.Starters, you’ll develop and fine-tune your business idea, building models based on your assumptions, tweaking your next steps through real-time customer feedback, learning valuable management and marketing skills and receiving constructive feedback from advisers, peers and local businesses. By honing your business and updating your approach based on real feedback and customer demand, you’ll gain the skills you need to develop a viable business model.
BUILD Basics February 2025
- February 19, 2025 - April 9, 2025
- In Person at BUILD
- 6pm - 8:30pm on Wednesdays
- $350 or less - Sliding scale in effect!
- Facilitated by Damon Thompson
BUILD Basics is an 8-week cohort class designed to help aspiring or established entrepreneurs work through everything they need to complete their business plan, such as licensing, market research, business financials and more! Participants will leave the class with a completed business plan, a cohort of fellow entrepreneurs in Detroit, and the knowledge and confidence to take their small business to the next level.
BUILD Master Class - Detroit Media Training
- Tuesday, March 4, 2025
- In Person at BUILD
- 6pm - 8pm
- FREE
- Facilitated by Darralynn Hutson
Understanding the local media market is key to building valuable relationships with journalists and photographers. This master class will offer an in-depth exploration of the Detroit media market, especially print media, providing participants with the knowledge to engage with the right reporters and photographers.
