Group Photo of EPI Graduates

Rutgers’ Entrepreneurship Pioneers Initiative (EPI) is now accepting applications for their multi-month entrepreneur training program that has been successfully run for over ten years.  The EPI team has pulled together experts who provide half day training on topics scheduled for one tutorial per month that includes:

  • Customer management
  • Branding and marketing strategies
  • Finance and accounting
  • Strategic management
  • Business valuation
  • Sales Strategy, and more

The applicant must meet the following eligibility:

  • A first-generation entrepreneur (your parents or grandparents did not have a formally registered business),
  • Formally registered business,
  • In business/operational for at least two years. and
  • Located and conducting business in New Jersey.

In addition to instructor training, participating entrepreneurs have access to timely expert advice as they progress through the multiple month program.  They gain peer networking, have one-on-one counseling and have opportunities over the course of program to benefit from a range of resources that leads to an actionable growth plan for each entrepreneur’s business.

Apply here online by March 31st.

February 8, 2022