Where
Towers of Kenwood (Chase-UBS Building)
8044 Montgomery Road
Adjacent to Hampton Inn, Between I-71 and Hosbrook
West Tower, Conference Room, next to Skip's Deli
Kenwood, OH 45236
Free Parking
Driving Directions
Small Business Start-Up Essentials Two-Part Series
July 14 & 21, 2018
Part 1: Feasibility & Funding - July 14, 2018
Learn the elements and tools to determine the viability of your business idea and learn the basics for funding your new start-up.
Part 1 - Feasibility & Funding - July 14, 2018
- 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
Part 2- Create The Plan - July 21, 2018
A guide for the committed small business startup explaining the fundamentals of developing a business plan with emphasis on marketing, sales and finance.
SEATING LIMITED - PRE-PAID REGISTRATION REQUIRED
SCORE - Non-Profit resource partner to the Small Business Administration - U.S. Department of Commerce. Nutruring Small Business in the tri-state area with low cost education & free, certified mentoring, since 1964.
YOUR PRESENTERS:
Ms. Amber David, LISC Cincinnati
LISC Cincinnati is one of 31 local offices of LISC, a national community development financial institution that works with residents and partners to forge resilient and inclusive communities of opportunity across America – great places to live, work, visit, do business and raise families. For the last 18 years, LISC’s efforts in Greater Cincinnati have been delivered through a two- pronged approach: capacity building and capital deployment. LISCs’ small business loan program offers financing to small, for- profit businesses for everything from acquisition to equipment to working capital.
LISC has developed a partnership with Kiva – an online loan crowdfunding platform that enables entrepreneurs and small businesses access to 0% interest loans. Through this partnership, LISC provides dollar for dollar matching funds for borrowers in the Greater Cincinnati region who are working with one of the initiative's partners, also known as Kiva Trustees.
Mr.Bill Digrezio
Bill has been with SCORE since 2007 and is currently on the Board of Directors for Ohio Presbyterian Retirement Serives. He has forty-one years in the Retail Industry. Store management at Sears for fifteen years, thirteen years in field management at The Gap, Group Vice President at LensCrafters and Senior Vice President Shared Store Services at Luxottica Retail-North America. Bill is a graduate of Northeastern University.