A new way for people with business ideas to get started is setting up in Dauphin.
Anyone needing a little help getting going can be part of the new business incubator program.
Those interested are required to attend an information session at Dauphin City Hall either today at noon or tomorrow at 7 in the evening.
Stephen Chychota, the Executive Director for the Dauphin & District Chamber of Commerce, shares some information about the program.
“So if anybody has any interest at all to start their own business or has that idea or is currently within their first couple years of doing business and maybe wants to get into that next step of ‘do I need a storefront’ or ‘do I not have quite the complete business plan in place at the moment.’ This is totally for them. It can be from someone with that ambition or somebody already running the business.”
Participants will go through a 12-week program that will include bi-weekly evening training sessions in Dauphin. When they complete the program, graduates will be eligible to participate in joint marketing and product testing events and potentially move into shared commercial space to launch their business.
“What’s going to happen here is that it’s a business incubator. The idea is that we’re going to have the programming and key people in place to help small businesses and start-ups to become more viable and more prosperous. So make their start a little easier then try and do it out on their own.”
“And also a one-stop shop as opposed to coming to the chamber or to economic development or community futures or what have you. Whatever department a new business has to see. We’re all coming together so that they can come to one spot and get all the access to all the information all at once.”
Dauphin Economic Development, Dauphin & District Chamber of Commerce and Community Futures Parkland are creating a pilot Business Incubator program with financial assistance from the Province of Manitoba’s Partner 4 Growth program.
