This Fashion Business Accelerator program is not merely a training program; it is a transformational program that equips creators and clothing brand owners with the strategy and actionable resources to build a successful fashion business without costly mistakes arising from guesswork, and it is accomplished in just three days. Founders leave knowing how to effectively validate demand, produce professionally, protect their margins when pricing, and efficiently move to launch. 

This program lets one leverage the same tools used in genuine fashion supply chains and is the key to building value and scaling efficiently when you are ready to start.

Overview of bootcamp structure (Day 1–3)

Fashion Business Accelerator is an early-stage business training bootcamp covering a solopreneur’s journey in detail over three days and is structured to minimize confusion and maximize clarity one step at a time. To avoid overwhelming participants with uncoordinated content and tasks, this bootcamp spreads its journey over three frameworks that focus on a valid business model, scalable, and finishable on time.

Day#1: Foundation

The focus of the first day is to provide an understanding of the importance of developing and validating an idea relative to the market, helping owners understand and assess the market’s demand for an idea, and avoiding wasting time and resources on production later in the process. Founders will walk through how to avoid spending time acquiring a niche, analysis of the competitive landscape, understanding of the buyer personas, and validating the willingness and ability to pay in the target market. This step saves participants the effort and risk of launching a brand that is already in the market.

Day#2: Supply chain

The second day focuses on the preparation of a product, starting from sampling and development to quality control measures required during the production phase.

Founders will walk through production-grade tech-packs, textiles, sourcing, pricing, production calendars, and how to avoid common overshooting mistakes. During this phase, we also deep dive into the GTM strategy, funnels, and learn how to create a pricing breakdown for apparel products.

Day#3: Growth

The final day is the operational launch. Often, founders launch for the sake of launching without putting much thought into scaling and try to wing it on the go.

Under growth, we cover modules in UGC, funding, budgeting, and alternate paths to sustainable scaling using surplus flips and distribution partnerships.

The goal of day 3 is to empower fashion founders like you with a profitable execution plan from day 1 and to create a roadmap for sustainable growth within a targeted time for launching the product or service, and expanding the business to market another product or service.

How are the courses structured?

There are 9 modules split across 3 days, with each module covering a deep dive into an important aspect of starting and scaling a fashion brand. Each module follows up with a workbox exercise focused specifically on your brand, and the live discussion happens the next day.

The details for each module are as follows:

What’s included besides the courses? (like templates, live sessions)

Besides being an online class, The Accelerator is an entire execution system that helps founders make the first move, assisted by seasoned experts using tools available in the tank. Founders gain entry to live sessions where questions are answered, challenges are critiqued, and solutions are rendered in real-time. This industry experience drives founders to learn the application of best practices to their products and brand instead of spending time figuring out the entire process on their own.

Perhaps the most impactful offering is the extensive collection of downloadable templates and documents that are used in real apparel manufacturing environments. These include niche validation worksheets, costing templates, tech pack templates, production planning spreadsheets, and launch planning worksheets. Founders can bypass guesswork; industry-calculated templates instead go straight to use in a workbook.

Additional resources offered include season videos, market case studies, arch frameworks, tagged to tasks, and tiered resources for builders. The Accelerator provides founders with resources so they are never in the position of having the vision of what they would like to do, but avoiding the “how” of doing it. Every resource is designed to minimize trial-and-error and maximize progress.

Real participant transformation stories

Feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or disheartened deeply baffles and perplexes founders, especially after running into obstacles like factory rejections, unclear costing, samples received that don’t match what meets the expected criteria, and confusion about demand. Bootcamp helps these individuals, even industry novices, make measurable progress in just weeks by applying proven processes from manufacturing operations.

One individual joined after spending months trying to figure out what their niche is and who their ideal customer is. With the program’s validation tools, they conducted organized surveys to receive structured market feedback, and they validated demand for a particular customer demographic. Instead of blindly manufacturing, they pre-sold their first batch, lowering their financial risk.

Another founder was worried about the understanding of pricing, the margins, and whether they would make a profit. They were easily able to determine why their costs were going to be a downfall, especially with the Accelerator’s margin calculators and costing templates, and then revised their pricing to make sure they would be profitable.

Realizing they were planning too large and too quickly for their wants, some participants were able to be taught about realistic launch strategies. This taught them to start small, test demand, and scale, resulting in much more efficiency.

How does this differ from generic courses?

To be honest, the 3-day bootcamp is not structured as a course. The course is the by-product. The main USP of the bootcamp is the community and the year-round mentorship. The courses are provided in order to ensure that all participants have a certain minimum level of knowledge when it comes to the fashion business.

And if we talk about the courses offered by us in the community and compare it with other fashion courses, you will see that most of the other courses offer abstract design inspiration and branding theory, but they do not address the most concrete problem that new founders are faced with, how to start and manufacture a range profitably. 

The Fashion Business Accelerator is different because it was designed by actual industry experts who have first-hand experience in sourcing, production, and apparel manufacturing with major global labels. Instead of motivational padding, the program is designed to pass practical business knowledge that first-time founders rarely have access to. 

The Accelerator explains the factory’s mentality, explains how sourcing impacts cost and margin, how to appropriately structure MOQ negotiation’s stovepipes, and how to validate demand before production. Participants are taught industry processes, such as fabric planning, product costing, tech pack workflow, quality control, sampling, and reasonable manufacturing timelines, which most generic programs do not cover.

Then there is the course’s live interactivity. Instead of going through a workshop alone with a pre-recorded video, participants can ask questions and get clarification, as well as guidance that is specific to the product, budget, and launch season they are in. Founders do not have to guess, as every step is accompanied by feedback from real professionals.

Lastly, the Accelerator not only offers industry tools and templates designed to minimize the trial and error process.

Join the Accelerator

For anyone who intends to start a fashion business, this Accelerator is likely one of the most impactful steps you can take before investing in production costs. Rather than spending thousands of dollars on tech packs, sampling, and marketing, which can be a waste of time and money if you have no means of validating your idea, this program can provide you with the guidance you need to develop a structured roadmap, backed by experts with a history of successful manufacturing, all the way from idea to production.  

The Accelerator will teach you how to validate your idea, identify a specific market niche, establish the best product strategy, create a plan for pricing and margins, and learn how to efficiently and effectively source from manufacturers even with low minimum order quantities. You will have complete access to industry experts in the garment business and live instructional sessions to ensure you have the necessary tools to avoid guesswork and execute your plan with complete certainty.  

Some of the additional benefits you will gain insight into include how factories assess brands, what documents are required, the financial aspects of sampling (often seen as a “sample fail”), and how to get from a prototype to production in small quantities without running out of money.  

If you seek to be proactive and avoid the pitfalls that claim 90% of new fashion ventures, now is the time to get started. The Fashion Business Accelerator of Hula Global is designed for founders to systematically learn how to develop and manage a successful boutique fashion brand with industry expertise, supportive guidance, and a functioning framework.

Programs

• If you are exploring the idea of starting a fashion brand – Join the Masterclass
• If you are 100% sure of launching a clothing brand or are in the process of launching a clothing brand – Join the Bootcamp
• If you are looking for low MOQ supplier, inquire about the Co-pilot program.
• If you have a private label brand and you are looking to scale up – Join our Private Label Program.
• If you are looking for surplus & Liquidation deals – join our liquidation program.
• If you are not sure about joining the bootcamp, – Join the Masterclass to get a feel of what Bootcamp has to offer and if you still have questions, you can email us at hello@hulaglobal.com

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