Your Small Business Dream to Reality
Two-Part Series: Part 1: Feasibility & Funding - April 22, 2017

Learn the elements and tools to determine the viability of your business idea and learn the basics for funding your new start-up.

Sponsored by SCORE - Serving tri-state small businesses with free mentoring and low cost education since 1964.

COURSE OUTLINE, Part 1 

• Feasibility Plan Draft 
• Refine Your Business Idea
• Customer Data
• Competitive Data
• Resources for Collecting Data
• Why Bookkeeping, Accounting and Financial Statements
• Sources of capital (traditional and non-traditional)
• The “six C’s of credit”
• Banking relations
• Next steps and Series Part 2 next week

Part 2- Create The Plan - April 29, 2017

A guide for the committed small business startup explaining the fundamentals of developing a business plan with emphasis on marketing, sales and finance.