Small Business Start-Up Essentials 2-Part Series

October 13 & 20, 2018

Part 1: Feasibility & Funding - October 13, 2018

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

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 - October 20, 2018

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

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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:

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.

Mr. Frank Sullivan

Frank joined SCORE in 2018 with 40+ years experience in financial underwriting and insurance bonds, he also spent 12 years as an Account Executive with Liberty Mutual. His extensive knowledge of these areas provides a through understanding of the funding needs and sources for small business start-up and operation. He is a graduate of Belmont Abbey College (NC) and a member of the KY and OH Surety Associations.

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