Marketing + Funding for Creative Founders

Creative founders of Portland - join us for our Marketing + Funding workshop on February 21st at 1pm at Kinship. Our goal is to provide emerging creative founders a grounded, actionable framework for building visibility and early traction.

In the marketing portion, we’ll cover how to define your customer, sharpen your brand narrative, and choose the right marketing channels for your stage of growth. Participants will learn how to approach marketing in a visual, intuitive way - the way creative entrepreneurs naturally think - while also building the foundations investors and stakeholders look for in a young brand: clarity of audience, consistency of message, and a path to sustainable demand.

The funding segment introduces early-stage founders to the full funding landscape, from community-based capital and grants to microloans, crowdfunding, and introductory investor pathways. We’ll discuss what makes creative businesses fundable, how to prepare the essentials (pricing, unit economics, budgets, pitch…