Startup Academy
Startup Academy
Need some hands-on support and guidance to get started?
Startup Academy is a step-by-step program to help amusement entrepreneurs research, develop and build their entertainment center project.
NO NEED FOR TRAVEL - Startup Academy is delivered direct to you, at your convenience via the web, email and our on-going telephone consultations.
Step Number One:
Get your initial project and industry questions answered:
* Is this the right business for me?* Will the idea in my head make money?
* How much will it cost to start and complete the project?
* Will my community support a family entertainment center?
* How long will it take to build, open and earn a return on a new fun center?
Step Number Two:
Find your local data (demographics, real-estate, construction costs and other resources) along with industry specific market data, amusement trends and a potential activity mix and start building your fun center business plan. Login every day and use the Academy resources to find the data and pull it all together; read new business articles, speak with your coach, listen to industry specific podcasts and hear how others did it and what they do to keep it fresh and successful. Keep motivated in our developers community and keep working on your plan. (project information is kept strictly confidential during the academy program).
Step Number Three:
With a completed business plan in hand, start speaking with potential business partners, funders and amusement suppliers. It is only at this point that industry suppliers, bankers and other professionals will take you and your project serious, and look to be a part of it.
Startup Academy offers these business tools to help you along the way:
* FEC Coaching and project support.
* Mentoring and Alternate Sources of Funding (Fun Center Equity Fund)
* Comprehensive, industry specific business plan (with real-time industry financial statements).
* Industry guidebooks and how-to manuals.
* Employee handbooks, manuals and operational forms.
* Amusement business article library
* FEC Podcasts and video webcasts (listen in on conversations with successful owners and developers).
* Purchase any product or service individually, or get it all with a monthly subscription.
Combining our 14 plus years in the amusement industry, both as an operator and a manufacturer, along with our extensive rolodex of industry professionals, successful owners and creative artisans - Startup Academy is the one place that can help you make it happen.
If you find yourself asking these questions:
- Where do I start?
- What do I need?
- Where do I find it?
- What do I do with it?
Then Startup Academy is for you.
Take a look around and give us a call if you have other questions - or get going and enroll in Startup Academy tonight!
Feel free to call on us at any time.
In the Spirit of Entrepreneurship.
-Derek
(604)755-7942