# Founders

_Programme · The Kurdish Cooperation Organization · https://kurds.global/development/programmes/founders/_

Support for people starting small businesses, including food entrepreneurs.

## Record

- **Platform**: Development
- **State**: in-preparation
- **Lede**: Founders brings learning and peer support to people who want to start or grow a small business. It is in preparation.
- **Learning**: Courses on starting a small firm and on running a food business.
- **Peer groups**: Small groups of founders who meet to share problems and progress.
- **Referrals**: Directions to the public business advice offered where you live.
- **Food and craft**: Attention to Kurdish food, textiles and crafts as businesses.
- **Audience**: First-time founders, Food entrepreneurs, Craft makers, Owners of small family businesses
- **Step 1**: Learn: founders take the relevant courses.
- **Step 2**: Join: a founder joins a peer group in their region or language.
- **Step 3**: Refer: the group points founders to public support where they live.
- **Step 4**: Share: founders share what worked, with their consent.

## Provenance

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## See also

- [Development](https://kurds.global/development/)