Boot Camp: Steps to Owning Your Business

Taking the first step to starting your business can be difficult! This class will be a realistic starting point for all budding entrepreneurs. The workshop is PACKED with information and FAST PACED. At the end, you will have a good feel for the level of effort and commitment it will take to make your business successful. If you’re serious about starting a business, you don’t want to miss this course.

In this course we will look at:

• Why you should become an entrepreneur

• What elements you need to have in place be successful

• Several options to becoming a business owner

• How starting a business is different today from a decade ago

• How to zero in on your unique business idea

• Ways to determine your financial requirements

• Ways to fund your new business

• How to conduct market research for free

• Legal requirements to setting up a new business

• How taxes work (UPDATED With New Sales Tax Rules)

• Why too much insurance can be a bad thing

• How to hire employees and subcontractors