From one hour to 10 weeks, the Small Business Center offers training to help you start and build your business.
Assess your ability as an entrepreneur and the feasibility of your business or idea. Learn how your military experience will help you as an entrepreneur. Learn how to develop a complete business plan for starting and running your new or existing business over the course of eight three hour classroom sessions. Be guided through a thorough thought process on every element of your business, from basic description and mission statement to financials and sales forecasting. Understand all resources available to help veterans develop and run successful businesses. Then complete the homework to finish the class with the first draft of a comprehensive business plan. Class exercises are performed online and all supporting material and resources are available for download.
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LinkedIn is one of the most powerful tools on the web for global business networking, connecting, and reputation enhancement. The course shows you how to use this powerful tool to build a global and local business network, enhance your reputation, create networking equity in others that can pay off in the future, and gain powerful information about others that they want to share. Customers want to pre-screen you before they trust you with their hard-earned money; LinkedIn gives them a way to do that. This course will give you practical strategies for using screening to gain an advantage over the competition.
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Assess your own entrepreneurial abilities and the feasibility of your business ideas. Over the course of eight three-hour sessions, you’ll develop a business plan for starting and running a new business (or operating an existing one). You’ll examine every element of a business operation, from mission statement to financials and sales forecasting. Your “homework” will be to complete the first draft of a business plan. Supporting material and other resources are available for download, and access to course content is available for a full six months after completion of the course.
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This course provides hands-on experience in the basic set up of a small business accounting system. It help students understand the financial management of a business, including standard financial statements important for most small businesses, how transactions affect financial statements, and how financial statements affect taxes and the ability to borrow money for future growth. Setting up financial management systems early and properly will contribute to the long-term health of a business.
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Assess your potential as an entrepreneur and the feasibility of your business or idea, and learn how your military experience can help. In eight three-hour sessions, you’ll learn how to develop a comprehensive business plan for your new or existing business and create a first draft. You will be guided through an examination of every element of your business, from basic description and mission statement to financials and sales forecasting. You’ll also learn about the resources available for veterans developing and operating successful businesses. Class exercises are performed online, and all course material and resources are available for download.
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Are you interested in starting a food truck business? This course will show you how to be a part of the hottest dining trend around! You’ll find out what’s required to operate a mobile food unit safely and legally – licenses and permits; zoning laws; federal, state, and local regulations; health and safety concerns; taxes; and more. The course also includes business essentials such as creating a business plan, securing a business loan, budgeting, and costing. At the end of the course you’ll take the ServSafe Manager Certification Exam, which is mandatory for food truck operators.
| Details | Section | Date(s) | Location | Price | Seats | 312155 | 08/12/25 - 09/16/25 | Public Safety Education Campus | 320.00 | 10 | Register |
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Kauffman FastTrac® teaches aspiring, early-stage entrepreneurs how to launch their businesses. Students will have access to content, templates, and tools as they progress through five modules that mirror the entrepreneurial journey. By the end of the course, you will have developed and refined your entrepreneurial vision into a thoroughly researched and tested business plan. In addition, there will be training and preparation for pitching in a pitch competition as well as 2 additional weeks of QuickBooks training. The class will be taught asynchronously over the course of 12 weeks and graded in a pass/fail manner.
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Program Description:
In this 10-week program, aspiring and early-stage entrepreneurs will develop and refine a business concept, taking it through each step of the business planning process. Through lectures, readings, research, and discussion, participants will plan and analyze their entrepreneurial vision by creating a thoroughly researched and tested Business Plan.
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Este curso está diseñado para pequeños y nuevos empresarios. Éste, lo guiará paso a paso en las etapas iniciales para desarrollar su idea de negocio. Aprenda como obtener licencias y permisos, a hacer investigaciones de mercado y la competencia, y a desarrollar un plan sólido para su negocio. Conozca los programas y recursos disponibles para pequeños empresarios y a auto-promoverse en los distintos medios de comunicación (redes sociales, comunidad, etc.) para atraer más clientes.
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Learn how to take your dream of starting a business and put it into action. In this class, you will learn everything you need to know about starting a business. You will begin by discovering the tricks to picking the right opportunity for you. Next, you will learn how to develop proven marketing techniques to easily build sales. Since every business needs money, this course discusses traditional and nontraditional financing options. Finally, you will learn easy-to-implement employee-management procedures and how to write business policies that help you build your business. You, as a business owner, need to manage all your limited resources. One resource that often gets overlooked is your time. Throughout the course, you will learn time management techniques especially for entrepreneurs. While taking this course, you will discover the secrets that separate the successful entrepreneurs from the struggling ones.
| Details | Section | Date(s) | Location | Price | Seats | 312524 | 05/14/25 - 07/04/25 | Online | 77.00 | 19 | Register |
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