Avoid common mistakes founders make when starting a company and building a product by putting your customers first! We’ll cover in a super actionable way everything you need to know about identifying target customer segments, developing hypotheses about your customer’s problems and needs, testing them through customer discovery interviews, surveys, and market research, and how to iterate on your product to save time and money and increase the chance of success.

About Idea to Impact

The Venture Café Providence “Idea to Impact” Series aims to overcome barriers that inhibit access to business resources, capital, and networks for historically underrepresented entrepreneurs. The Series will primarily address the needs of early-stage Black, Indigenous, People of Color, veterans, and female-identifying entrepreneurs in Rhode Island who continue to be underserved. The Series is planned to include ten modules and office hours opportunities from September 2023 to May 2024. The Series will provide workshops, office hours and innovation ecosystem networking opportunities to early-stage companies and founders that are building businesses in Rhode Island.