Simple Steps for Starting Your Business

January 19, 2011

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A SCORE Workshop Series

Our fundamental goal at SCORE is to help entrepreneurs launch and manage successful businesses. Getting the proper start is half the battle for any budding business owner, and SCORE has a way to enhance the probability of success of that beginning. Typically, anyone contemplating a new business has a kernel of an idea, but more than likely, also has many questions. From assessing the idea’s likelihood of success to setting up the legal entity for the new firm, there are many areas of uncertainty.

To address all of these fundamental questions, SCORE Minneapolis periodically offers a comprehensive workshop called “Simple Steps for Starting Your Business” that covers the usual areas an entrepreneur has concerns with. Virtually every aspect of starting a business is presented with tools or resources shared that arm the new business owner with ways to succeed.

The many topics are addressed in four weekly three-hour sessions. There is a modest $125 fee for the entire workshop.

However, to preview some areas of the whole workshop, a free three-hour introductory session is offered to address some early questions a start-up owner may have.

Here are the areas covered in the free introductory session:

Define and evaluate your business idea
Develop a marketing strategy
Understand business financials
Identify the best ways to fund your start-up
Get useful and helpful mentoring
Connect with other entrepreneurs

Free session scheduled twice in February

The free introductory session is held twice: Monday, February 7 and Wednesday, February 9. Both sessions are from 6 – 9 p.m. at Bethany University in Bloomington.

If you’re thinking about starting a business, the introductory session to “Simple Steps for Starting Your Business” is a wonderful way to begin the journey. If your business idea still seems feasible after this session, the full Simple Steps program will solve the rest of the puzzle.

To register for the free three-hour introductory session, visitwww.scorempls.org or call (952) 938-4570 for more information.

Jim Phelps, Minneapolis SCORE
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