Maker2Market August

The Canberra Institute of Technology is collaborating with the Maker2Market program to provide a real-world, build-and-test your creative business experience program that culminates in selling to real customers at a commercial pop up at the Old Bus Depot Markets or Capital Food Markets. View the full program here.

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You don’t need months, a business degree, a bank loan, or the “perfect” idea. What you do need before investing serious time or money is a business model that works and a process that helps you identify your ideal customer and the value for them alongside a real-world test to validate your product.

Take your idea or creative product through a short business sprint experience to see if it actually works in the real world. You’ll create something real, put it in front of real people, and learn what actually works—fast.

In this 3-day intensive, hands-on business experience, you’ll go from idea and value creation → customer identification → offer → customer validation with LIVE selling at either the Old Bus Depot Markets or Capital Food Markets.

You will build your creative start-up, test, and sell.

What you will learn

• Hands-on course content with real conversations, not just theory
• Support and guidance and learning by actually doing the work
• The excitement (and nerves) of selling to real customers
• Reflection and feedback to move forward based on your own real-world experience

What you will finish with

• A validated product or service idea launched in days
• A clear offer and pricing strategy
• Real selling experience to real customers at iconic Old Bus Depot markets (valued at $115) or bustling Capital Food Markets (valued at $220)
• Immediate, real-world feedback and potential revenue.
• Confidence built through action, not theory
• A repeatable framework for future ideas

Who is this for?

This experience is ideal if you are:

• A creative yet to create a business model and monetise
• An aspiring entrepreneur (pre-business stage) wanting a low- cost option of testing a product/business model in the real world with real customers
• Wanting the opportunity to work through how to turn a hobby into a business model and test your product
• Having trouble getting started but have an idea/product
• Wanting to test a side hustle quickly
• Tired of overthinking and want action
• Wanting a structured, supportive environment to start

No prior business experience needed, product concept must be past prototype stage.

• Cost: $400
• Duration: 21.5 hrs (includes 2-day workshop and a 1-day Commercial pop-up)
• Delivery mode: Face-to-face.

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To find out more visit the Maker2Market website.