Before starting a new venture, what a business really needs are a few customers who love the product and want to pay for it. A free workshop offered Monday by the Entrepreneurship Practice and Innovation Centre (EPICentre) will help budding founders get started.

Using the “Test your Business Idea” guide, attendees will learn the mindset and tools for new business success with this proven method that really works.

It runs 3 to 4 p.m. January 23 in the EPICentre offices on the second floor of the Joyce Entrepreneurship Centre. Find more information, and register online, on the event webpage.