Investment Readiness - First Deals 1 to 1000 Customers - 2027

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Expression of Interest - Investment Readiness - First Deals 1 to 1000 Customers

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PROGRAM OVERVIEW

A 12-week comprehensive customer acquisition capability program to enable female founders to build traction, convert real customers and scale their businesses. 

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Sprint 1: Your First Paying Customers

Weekly 1-hour virtual workshops, a 30-minute 1:1 coaching session per founder, self-paced modules and templates, and access to Tech Ready Women mentors.

Week 1: Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) Founders identify and validate the customers most likely to buy, get value from and stay with their product. They leave with a clearly documented ICP based on real customer evidence rather than assumptions.

Week 2: Commercial Messaging Founders turn product features into value propositions that speak directly to their ICP's pain points and buying triggers. The focus is on messaging that converts in sales conversations, not just marketing copy.

Week 3: Sales Process Founders map a structured sales process from first contact to close, including qualification criteria and pipeline stages. This helps them forecast revenue with confidence and see where deals stall.

Week 4: Repeatable Channels to Market Founders assess which acquisition channels suit their ICP and business model and prioritise those with the strongest potential. The aim is to move from ad hoc, founder-led selling to channels that can scale sustainably.

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Sprint 2: Your First Corporate Pilot

Weekly 1-hour virtual workshops, a 30-minute 1:1 coaching session per founder, self-paced modules and templates, and access to Tech Ready Women mentors.

Week 1: Identifying the Highest-Value Corporates to Pursue Founders learn how to assess and prioritise corporate prospects by strategic fit, budget and likelihood of converting to a commercial contract. They build a corporate ICP and a targeted pipeline instead of chasing big logos.

Week 2: Designing a Win-Win Pilot Founders learn best practice for structuring pilots, including scope, success criteria, timelines and stakeholder alignment. The focus is on pilots that deliver clear value to the corporate while protecting the startup's time and resources.

Week 3: Taking Control of the Pilot Founders learn how to manage pilot delivery proactively, from securing internal champions to setting governance and progress reporting. This keeps pilots from stalling and keeps the path to a commercial decision front of mind.

Week 4: Turning Pilots into Recurring Revenue Founders learn how to negotiate the move from pilot to paid contract and how to capture results as case studies and references. The aim is to convert pilots into ongoing revenue and use them to win future sales.

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Sprint 3: Your Customer Journey

Weekly 1-hour virtual workshops, a 30-minute 1:1 coaching session per founder, self-paced modules and templates, and access to Tech Ready Women mentors.

Week 1: Defining Key Customers and Account Management Processes Founders identify their most valuable customer segments and design account management processes to retain and grow them. This covers onboarding, regular touchpoints and early warning signs of churn.

Week 2: Identifying Upsell Opportunities and New Revenue Streams Founders analyse their existing customer base to find opportunities for upselling, cross-selling and pricing changes. Growing revenue from current customers is usually faster and cheaper than acquiring new ones.

Week 3: Understanding Adjacent Opportunities Founders explore adjacent markets, segments and use cases where their product could deliver value with minimal adaptation. They leave with a clearer view of their broader addressable market and where to expand next.

Week 4: Reporting on Metrics That Matter Founders learn which metrics best show customer health and business growth, such as retention, net revenue retention and customer lifetime value. They set up simple reporting to track progress and support conversations with investors and partners.

KEY DATES

  • EOIs Open: 10th November 2026 at 9am
  • EOIs Close: 16th January 2027 at 2pm

PROCESS / ASSESSMENT

1️⃣ Submit Your EOI

2️⃣ Assessment

  • Applications will be assessed by Tech Ready Women representatives, assessing business fundamentals and growth potential.

3️⃣ Selection 

  • Applicants will be notified approx. 3 weeks after program closure.

ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS

To be eligible to participate in the program, organisations must meet the following requirements:

Is the applicant organisation headquartered in Queensland (operating and having its head office located in Queensland)? * Required
For the purposes of this program "Located in Queensland" is any organisation that has a physical office in Queensland and has an ABN which states its "Main business location" is in Queensland.
Does the applicant organisation have an ABN? * Required
Is the applicant organisation ABN registered in Queensland as the main business location? * Required
Is your business majority Female Owned? Must be at least 50% of shares held by a woman/woman (at least six months before application) * Required
If the female founder’s shares are held within a trust, the applicant organisation will be required to demonstrate how it meets the eligibility criteria above
Does the applicant organisation and/or related parties have 50 or less full time equivalent employees? * Required
Are you a subsidiary of a group of companies that has more than 50 full-time-equivalent employees in total * Required
What stage of development is your product/service at? * Required
Response required.
Choose the statement that most closely describes the current status of the product / technology / solution
Can you commit to weekly virtual 60 mins and workshops? * Required
Are you willing to complete a post course survey and share your startup's progress with Tech Ready Women, peers and the Queensland Government for purpose of collaborative learning? * Required