Turn Your Ideas into Action

Built on the proven CO.STARTERS Entrepreneurship model, this interactive three-hour workshop is designed to help participants move from ideas to action. Through guided collaboration, participants will explore their ideas using the CO.STARTERS Canvas, gain valuable customer insights, and define clear, actionable next steps.

Whether someone is just getting started, feeling stuck, or simply needs a refresher, this workshop provides the momentum needed to move forward with confidence.

What will you experience:

The workshop is focused on three essential areas:

Part 1: Explore Your Idea
Participants are introduced to the CO.STARTERS Canvas and learn how to move ideas out of their heads and into a clear, structured format. This section also focuses on understanding the customer—who they are, what they need, and why it matters.

Part 2: Refine Your Model
With ideas mapped out, participants learn how to gather and apply meaningful customer feedback. They are encouraged to think small, test early, and begin engaging with customers as soon as possible.

Part 3: Define Next Steps
Participants leave with clarity and direction by identifying actionable steps they can take in the next hour, day, week, and month to keep their momentum going.

What You’ll Gain:

• Clarity around your idea
• A better understanding of your customer
• Tools to test and refine your concept
• A clear action plan to move forward

The Bridgeport Indian Colony’s Introduction to Entrepreneurship will take place on Monday, June 15th from 9 am to 12:00 pm.  Registration is open to all community members and the workshop is free to attend.  To register please click on the “Going” button above and fill in your information.

The Workshop will be held at the Bridgeport Indian Colony’s which is located at 50 N. Tu-Su Lane in Bishop, California.

For more information, please contact our community host Kaitlin Crawford at 760-932-7083 ext. 226 or at chair@bridgeportindiancolony.com.

You can also reach out to Camille Koster from the IDRS Acorn Project at camille@idrsinc.org.

About Your Presenter:

Camille Koster (Cherokee) serves as the Youth Program Manager for the IDRS Acorn Project. Through the program, she teaches youth how to explore entrepreneurship and create side hustles which provides them the opportunity to make money while continuing to focus on their education . She has worked in youth development and in nonprofit for the last 18 years, both writing and facilitating camps across the nation. She has co-facilitated camps with the Drug-Free Communities National Initiative, Students Working Against Tobacco, Cherokee Nation Behavioral Health, ONABEN, the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, and more. Camille dedicated five years of her youth development career as the Chief Operating Officer of Girl Scouts of Eastern Oklahoma. She successfully assisted in one the largest youth entrepreneur programs as she helped build strategy and infrastructure for a cookie sale campaign that led to her local Council selling over 1 million boxes of Girl Scout Cookies in Eastern Oklahoma.
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Camille is a United States Navy Veteran and is proud to have represented the Cherokee Tribe in the military. During the time she served, only 15.4% of the military was comprised of Native American members, likewise, only 4% were female members. She has a Masters Degree in Organizational Management. Camille lives in Jenks, Oklahoma, is married to a Firefighter and has three children.

Introduction to Entrepreneurship is funded in part by the Bishop Paiute Tribe’s TERO Program, the USDA Rural Business Development, and the CA Governor’s Office of Business & Economic Development.