Develop Skills. Build Business. Create Momentum.
One step at a time, with those who know how.
Hands-on working sessions where innovators, entrepreneurs, and business builders make real progress in practical steps—with mentor support, at your pace, at any stage.
Do you need help making progress and taking practical steps forward with your idea or business?
Building or improving your product?
Marketing and growing your business?
Creating financial models that work?
Validating your market and customers?
Understanding legal and operations?
Managing stress and wellbeing?
You're not alone.
And you don't have to figure it out by yourself.
Innovators, entrepreneurs, and business builders who want to make real progress through hands-on work
Experienced practitioners who want to share their knowledge and make measurable impact
Builders: Practical progress, tangible deliverables, real skills you can use
Mentors: Visible impact, meaningful connections, stronger ecosystem
Early-stage innovators and entrepreneurs face unique challenges that make it hard to gain momentum and make progress.
Can't afford big investments, agencies, or consultants yet—need affordable ways to make real progress.
Wearing all the hats—need skills across domains like product, marketing, finance, and operations.
Balancing your idea with day job, family, or other commitments—need flexible, efficient ways to build.
Know what you want to build, but unsure where to start or what steps to take next.
Want to test and learn before making big commitments—reduce risk through smart, incremental progress.
Too many frameworks, tools, and advice—unsure what to prioritize or which path to take first.
A working space where innovators, entrepreneurs, and business builders take the next steps of their ideas through hands-on sessions—with mentor support, at your pace, at any stage.
Across Australia, Men's Sheds bring people together in community workshops where they build, share skills, and support each other. Innovation Shed adapts this proven model for startup builders—providing tools, mentorship, and community to help you build your business one practical step at a time.
Working sessions where you build the next steps of your idea in practical, bite-size pieces.
Facilitate hands-on sessions where founders build actual deliverables.
A stronger, more capable Perth startup community.
Our practical approach to building skills and progress
Learn practical capabilities across key domains—product, marketing, finance, operations—through hands-on working sessions.
Create real deliverables every session—not just plans and theory, but actual progress on your product, strategy, or business.
Develop self-sufficiency and resourcefulness—build momentum and traction that makes you more attractive to investors and accelerators.
Innovation Shed brings together builders and mentors in structured working sessions. Here's what a typical session day looks like:
3 sessions available each day
The following outlines some of the skills stations that may be available. Available skills stations will vary between sessions and days.
Pick an upcoming session day that works for your schedule
Select a mentor and station topic that aligns with your current needs
Tell the mentor and group what you're working towards
Work alongside your mentor and fellow innovators to make real progress
Innovation Shed strengthens Perth's innovation ecosystem—supporting founders, mentors, and the broader community of builders.
Develop skills and make progress without investment—grow sustainably on your own terms
Tangible deliverables every session—action over talk, momentum over planning
Network of builders and mentors—grow your team and find collaborators
Low-cost approach to building capabilities—make progress without big investments
Whether you're an innovator ready to build or an experienced practitioner ready to give back, Innovation Shed welcomes you to Perth's community of builders.
Together, we're creating a stronger, more capable, more supportive ecosystem for ideas and businesses in Western Australia.