2025 Venture School Applications Open

12 Dec 2024


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Applications Now Open for Spring 2025 Cohort 

North Iowa entrepreneurs are achieving success with the assistance of the NIACC Pappajohn Center cohort of the University of Iowa Venture School. Venture School is the premiere business training program in Iowa, emphasizing real-world entrepreneurship and innovation based on a leading-edge curriculum. Participants learn to overcome the chaos and uncertainty of creating new ventures by conducting customer discovery, market research and developing their foundational business model in real-time.

The NIACC Pappajohn Center is now accepting applications for the Spring 2025 cohort of the University of Iowa Venture School program. The Spring 2025 program will begin with an in-person orientation session on Thursday, February 6, 2025. Classes will be held online via Zoom on Thursdays February 13 through March 20, 5:30-9:00pm. The Venture School program will culminate with the Venture School Launch Day pitch competition, held in-person at NIACC on March 27, 2025, where entrepreneurs will have the opportunity to compete for cash prizes. The cost for the program is $299. 

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