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Start-Up Tracks 1-3

WHO: Entrepreneurs with a solid business idea or less than one year in business
   Entrepreneurs who started a business but need to get new clients and make money

START-UP TRACK 1: Launching Essentials
Understanding Your Business Model
The Business Model Canvas is a visual tool to help you define your business idea in a simple and concrete way. It will jump-start your road map to success.
   Objectives:
   * Understand the Business Model Canvas
   * Determine how to run a successful business
   * Understand the next steps to launch your business

Start-Up Track 2: Marketing Essentials
Planning Your Marketing Tactics
You will understand the basics of marketing based on the Business Model Canvas and develop the foundational tactics for a workable marketing plan for your business.
   Objectives:
   * Understand why a marketing plan is important to your company's success
   * Help you focus and create a marketing road map
   * Start to implement your marketing plan

Start-Up Track 3: Financing Essentials
Understanding Your Numbers
Understanding your numbers is the #1 way to establish a successful, growing business. You will work with the Business Model Canvas to understanding how cash flows through your business. It is one thing to have a dream, it is another to have a financial plan that will support that dream. Your business success depends on making sure the cash is there to support the business.
   Objectives:
   * Understand and Create a Cash Flow Projection
   * Understand Pricing
   * Identify Start-Up Costs

Requirements:
   * Take ALL three workshops within the Start-Up Track
   * Attend two one-on-one consulting sessions during the Start-Up Track
   * Complete and bring workshop assignments to consulting sessions

Three-part series dates and times at Aurora Municipal Center:
     Track 1 - Launching Essentials: Tuesday, April 21st, 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
   Track 2 - Marketing Essentials: Tuesday April 28th, 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
   Track 3 - Financing Essentials: Tuesday, May 5th, 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

NEXT Three-Part Start-Up Series at Aurora Municipal Center:
   Track 1 - Launching Essentials: Thursday, August 13th, 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
   Track 2 - Marketing Essentials: Thursday August 20th, 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
   Track 3 - Financing Essentials: Thursday, August 27th, 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Cost for Tracks 1-3: $120 non-refundable fee

Thank you to our sponsors!

Funded in part through a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Small Business Administration.

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