Start Your Journey
We provide a long runway (up to 42 months) and low burn rate for founders who are ready to take their startup business to the next level. Sound like what you’re looking for?
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Apply
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Interview
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Present
Before you begin...
Here's What You'll Need
To complete your online application, make sure you have all of these materials gathered:
- Business Overview/Pitch Deck
- Basic Financials
- Business Plan or Basic SWOT
- Go To Market Strategy
- Development Timeline
Evaluation Criteria
We want to make sure that you are ready for our program. This is the criteria we’ll use during the interview process to ensure that you’re a good fit.
- Coachable: Team is willing to lean into Winston Starts resources and be positive in interactions with community members.
- Commercial: For profit with a navigable, timely and sustainable commercialization path
- National: Potential to be a sizable regional, national, or global business. Have competitive and relevant differentiation with sufficient marketplace space to grow into a meaningful player.
- Scalable: Potential to grow at reasonable pace. Can grow profits as it grows revenue.
- Local: Demonstrates a commitment to Winston-Salem as its headquarters and/or site of a significant portion of its employment.
- Mature. The business has been formed and has demonstrated early market validation through customer discovery, a convincing level of secondary research, and /or actual revenue.
Being part of Winston Starts has allowed us to learn from mentors who have achieved some of the same goals we’ve identified for our business.
Nate AtkinsonFounder, Village Juice and Kitchen
Winston-Starts has provided immense energy for our startup effort. Access to community leaders for testing ideas, experienced vendors who provide essential services, flexible space and peers wrestling with similar problems has dramatically improved our success and probability of long-term viability,
John QuinnFounder and CEO, Wellnecity
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