There is a lot to learn to successfully grow a financially viable food business. It can be confusing to know where to start.
Our live immersion and on-demand deep-dive trainings provide the essential knowledge and individual business-level feedback you need to successfully grow your business and raise capital.
Attendees of our Immersion Trainings get exclusive access to everything in Edible-Alpha® Learning Center’s extensive resource library for one year through our Unlimited Learner Pass. Scholarship funds are available, learn more here.
MVP Series Workshop: Sales Forecasting, Trade Promotions & Execution (March 2024)
This workshop helps you develop your sales forecast / go to market costs / trade promotions plans and key execution and management tools to maximize customer profitability and relationship.
MVP Series Workshop: Brand & Marketing Management (April 2024)
This workshop helps you to define - align - activate your brand to stand out in the marketplace and maximize your business product line and net margin.
Scenario Planning (May 2024)
VirtualScenario Planning helps your business plan for multiple possible futures and identify what it will take to be successful in each of them.
MVP Series Workshop: Marketing Execution Management (May 2024)
This workshop helps you develop your marketing strategies and tactics that align and deliver against your business growth and net margin objectives.
MVP Series Workshop: eCommerce Management (June 2024)
This workshop will help you develop your eCommerce strategy and learn how Amazon (and/or other strategic partner sites) can maximize your business potential. Learn how to leverage best practices on Amazon to build your eCommerce business strategy.
Level 1 and Level 2 Consultant Training (June 2024)
VirtualLevel 1 Consultant Training provides an in-depth look at what food, beverage and value-added farm businesses need to do to optimize their business model and capital structure for profitability. Level 2 builds on Level 1 by helping participants navigate the process of raising appropriate debt, strategic investments, and equity investments in food, beverage and value-added farm businesses.
FFI MVP Series Workshop: Dedicated Facility vs. Co-Packer (July 2024)
In this workshop, you will learn how to develop your own dedicated production facility and/or work with a co-packer to produce the lowest cost possible, with the best quality, within food safety guidelines.
MVP Series Workshop: Operations Process & Supply Chain Optimization (August 2024)
This workshop will help you optimize your operations / production processes and supply chain to produce the lowest cost possible, with the best quality, within food safety guidelines.
FFI MVP Series Workshop: Quality, Food Safety, & ERP (September 2024)
In this workshop, you will learn how to manage your operations to deliver the best quality and maintaining FSMA regulatory compliance, while delivering business profitability.
FFI MVP Series Workshop: Risk & Legal Management (October 2024)
In this workshop, you will learn why risk (and risk management) is important to business growth. Businesses without risk are not businesses, they are non-profits. Or stated another way: to achieve above average returns requires taking on business risk (wisely).
Deep Dive Training
Deep Dive: Co-Packing: Mindset, Decisions, & Pitfalls
39 minutes of Paid course content by Edible-Alpha®
On-Demand Course about Operations for businesses that are Growing and Scaling
Deep Dive: Accounting & Finance 101
1 hour 12 minutes of Paid course content by Edible-Alpha®
On-Demand Course about Financial Management for businesses that are Growing and Scaling | Startups | Pre-Venture
Deep Dive: How and When to Use Debt to Finance a Farm Business
1 hour 20 minutes of Paid course content by Edible-Alpha®
Food Finance Institute Farm Outreach Specialist, Andy Larson walks you through how debt, when utilized properly, can be a fundamental tool to benefit your farm business.
Unlimited Learner Pass holders or purchasers of the course – navigate to the course here
On-Demand Course about Financial Management for businesses that are Startups | Growing and Scaling
Deep Dive: Walk Through of Farm Financial Statements – Balance Sheet
54 minutes of Paid course content by Edible-Alpha®
Food Finance Institute Farm Outreach Specialist, Andy Larson walks you through what a balance sheet is, how to use it, and how it is different for farms versus non-farm businesses.
Unlimited Learner Pass holders or purchasers of the course – navigate to the course here
On-Demand Course about Financial Management for businesses that are Growing and Scaling | Startups
Deep Dive: Walk Through of Farm Financial Statements – Income Statement
45 minutes of Paid course content by Edible-Alpha®
Food Finance Institute Farm Outreach Specialist, Andy Larson walks you through what an income statement is, how to use it, and how it is different for farms versus non-farm businesses.
Unlimited Learner Pass holders or purchasers of the course – navigate to the course here
On-Demand Course about Financial Management for businesses that are Growing and Scaling | Startups
Deep Dive: Financing Your Value-Added Farm Series – Getting Capital Ready
2 hours of Paid course content by Edible-Alpha®
Unlimited Learner Pass holders or purchasers of the course – navigate to the course here
On-Demand Course about Raising Capital for businesses that are Growing and Scaling | Startups
Deep Dive: Building a Valuable Food Brand
50 minutes of Paid training by Edible-Alpha®
On-Demand Course about Sales and Marketing for businesses that are Growing and Scaling | Startups
Deep Dive: Getting Your Food Products Online
1 hour of Paid course content by Edible-Alpha®
Unlimited Learner Pass holders or purchasers of the course – navigate to the course here
On-Demand Course about Sales and Marketing for businesses that are Startups | Growing and Scaling
Deep Dive: 13-Week Rolling Cash Flow – Forecasting & Debt
1 hour of Paid course content by Edible-Alpha®
Unlimited Learner Pass holders or purchasers of the course – navigate to the course here
On-Demand Course about Financial Management for businesses that are Startups | Growing and Scaling
Deep Dive: What Your Food Business Financial Statements Are Telling You
2 hours of Paid course content by Edible-Alpha®
Unlimited Learner Pass holders or purchasers of the course – navigate to the course here
On-Demand Course about Financial Management for businesses that are Startups | Growing and Scaling