PreFlight · Nashville Entrepreneur Center

Get evidence before you go all in.

PreFlight is a four-week virtual readiness sprint for early-stage founders. Through guided live sessions and real customer conversations, you'll leave with evidence-based confidence about what to do next — launch, iterate, or prepare for an accelerator.

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What you leave with

Four weeks. Three answers.

Validated customer insight

Real conversations with real potential customers — not guesses about what they'd want.

A clear MVP or service direction

What to build first, for whom, and why — grounded in what you heard.

A confident next-step decision

Launch, iterate, or apply to an accelerator — decided on evidence, not optimism.

Who it's for

Ideal for founders who want evidence before execution.

First-time or early-stage founders
Pre-revenue or early-revenue businesses
Solo founders or small teams
Founders seeking customer and problem clarity
Entrepreneurs deciding if acceleration is the right next step

Format: PreFlight runs virtually on Zoom. Sessions are live and interactive — you'll work directly with facilitators and a small cohort of fellow founders.

After PreFlight

When the evidence says go, the runway is already here.

PreFlight graduates move into TakeOff when they're ready to build a go-to-market engine — and EC members get access to the 200+ advisor network from day one, no cohort required.

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