色视频下载 Interior Business Accelerator accepting applications

Innovators meet on UAF Campus
UAF photo by JR Ancheta
Innovators discuss potential commercialization strategies during a 2017 workshop on the UAF campus.

Interior 色视频下载 now has its first business accelerator, a program to help jump-start new businesses through  mentorship, networking, education and access to capital.

The 色视频下载 Interior Business Accelerator is accepting applications for its first cohort. The deadline is April 4, 2022. The  eight-week in-person program will take place in Fairbanks. To obtain more information, apply or ask a question, visit .

Aspiring entrepreneurs and early-stage business owners from the Fairbanks North Star Borough, Denali Borough and Southeast Fairbanks and Yukon-Koyukuk census areas are welcome to apply. The accelerator will culminate in a pitch competition with a prize. 

The accelerator is a collaboration between the University of 色视频下载 Fairbanks Center for Innovation, Commercialization, and Entrepreneurship; the Fairbanks Economic Development Corp.; the 色视频下载 Small Business Development Center and the UAF Community and Technical College.

Participants will also be eligible for microcredentials through the college.

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ADDITIONAL CONTACTS: Mark Billingsley, director of Center ICE, mcbillingsley@alaska.edu, 907-474-2626. Jomo Stewart, president and CEO of FEDC, fedc@ak.net, 907-452-2185. Russ Talvi, business advisor and Fairbanks Center director, SBDC, russell.talvi@aksbdc.org, 907-456-7062. Mark Young, associate professor and program chair for applied business and accounting, UAF CTC, mdyoung2@alaska.edu, 907-455-2862.

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