Event Details
Event Details
Starting Your Own Business
Date: 11/16/2012
Time: 9:00 AM-4:00 PM
Location:
SPARK East
215 W. Michigan Avenue
Ypsilanti MI 48197
Cost: $25.00
At this forum you will learn about personality traits that impact entrepreneurialism, creating a marketing plan for your business, legal, accounting, and risk considerations, product development, business plans and financing options. You will have an opportunity to get advice from a variety of business experts and organizations that are available to support new ventures.
Agenda
9:00a Continental Breakfast & Registration
9:15a Welcome, Overview & Participant introductions
9:30a How to go from Start-Up to Small Business Success Story
10:15a Break
10:30a Product Development and Intellectual Property
11:15a Financing Your Business
12:15p Lunch
12:15-1:15p Ask the Expert and Individual Coaching
1:15p Setting Up Your Business & Mitigating Risk – Legal, Accounting and Insurance Considerations
2:00p Your Marketing Plan on a Napkin
3:00p Business Plans
3:30p Getting Connected to the Resources around you
Participating Companies:
Ann Arbor SPARK
Ann Arbor State Bank
Barton Consulting
DesignHub
Excellerate Associates
Hylant Group
Kapnick Insurance Group
Kleinschmidt Insurance
Michigan Small Business & Technology Development Center (MI-SBTDC)
SCORE
Trossen HR
UHY Advisors MU, Inc.
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