When

Thursday, August 30, 2018 from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM PDT
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Where

Vancouver Housing Authority Community Room 
2500 Main Street
Vancouver, WA 98660
 

 
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Course Leaders: Ron Barkley

& Bill Ruttledge, Vancouver SCORE

Ron Barkley has over fifty years in the banking industry working on loan requests for start-up and established businesses.  Ron currently serves as Vancouver SCORE's Treasurer.

Bill Ruttledge is a retied Commercial Insurance broker and past Chairman of SCORE Vancouver.  He currently serves as the chapter's Seminar Chair.

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Contact

Vancouver SCORE 
SCORE Chapter 0566 
360-545-3210 
vancouver@scorevolunteer.org 

This SCORE seminar is designed to cover some of the very first topics you need to research and answer before you consider jumping into business ownership.  We'll start with an exercise that will perfect your "Elevator Pitch" about your concept and move quickly to a discussion of entrepreneurial myths and realities.  We'll look at statistics on why businesses fail and, more importantly, ways of avoiding becoming one of those statistics.

And before we conclude, we'll look at the "Nuts & Bolts" of getting started and review some important basics on business planning.

Takeaways from this Seminar/Workshop:

  • What’s a Good Business idea, what’s a bad one?
  • Consider the critical factors of business success?
  • Where do I find information on licenses, taxes, forms and types of entities?
  • Gain valuable business planning tools and learn where you can get help.

This seminar is offered free to the public the volunteers of the Vancouver Chapter of SCORE.

Please use the button below to register for the seminar - doing so will assure seating in your name. 

SCORE "Counselors to America's Small Business" is a nonprofit association dedicated to educating entrepreneurs and helping small business start, grow and succeed nationwide.  SCORE is a resource partner of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA).

SCORE is headquartered in Herndon, VA and Washington, DC and has over 300 chapters throughout the United States and its territories with 11,000 + volunteers nationwide.  Both working and retired executives and business owners donate time and expertise as business counselors. SCORE was founded in 1964.