Winston Starts

About Winston Starts

Winston Starts is an accelerator that helps startup founders scale up their businesses. Our mission is to drive the future economic impact of Winston-Salem/Forsyth County, the Triad, and North Carolina through job creation and the retention and stimulation of intellectual capital. This is accomplished by:
– Providing intensive, inspiring, and duration appropriate support for startup businesses
– Collaborating and partnering with other startup enterprises across the Triad and state
– Promoting a culture of entrepreneurship, innovation and inclusion

We provide founders with state-of-the-art workspace, mentoring, educational programming and networking opportunities.

What differentiates you from the competition?

Winston Starts is not a typical 12-14 week cohort based program. Founders can be in Winston Starts for up to 42 months. This gives them time to launch, get customer feedback, pivot (if necessary) and optimize their value proposition & business model.

What are your top selling services or products that your company offers?

State of the art workspace, Mentorship, Educational Programming and Networking Events

If you had one message to get across to future customers, what would it be?

I would borrow from Steve Jobs and tell them to start with the customer and work backwards to your solution.

What is the biggest marketing challenge that you will face in the upcoming year?

Helping founders achieve product/market fit and raise capital to grow their business.