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The First Step: Starting a Small Business

The First Step provides you with the tools to evaluate the challenges and feasibility of your business idea through research and planning. This two-part course moves at a quick pace and focuses on solutions to specific issues confronting people considering starting their own business including:

  • Personal issues of being an entrepreneur
  • Financing a business
  • The business planning process
  • Marketing mechanics of starting a business
  • Regulations governing a business
  • Environmental, health, and safety considerations when starting a business

Included with your registration fee is a one-year subscription (12 issues) to Inc. magazine, valued at $10.

Title Date Time Instructor
Part 1 & 2 Mon, Nov 30 and Dec 14, 2009 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm Harry Tankin

Location: Jon M. Huntsman Hall: Exact location will be given upon confirmation

Fee: $50.00

All SBDC courses are offered free to veterans.
To register as a veteran, please call 215-898-4861

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Refund and Cancellation Policy

  • Credit towards future courses will be provided if a registrant provides written cancellation eight business days before the course.
  • The WSBDC reserves the right to cancel classes due to low enrollment. Registrants will be notified in advance of the course.
  • No refunds or credits are given to registrant “no-shows” or to cancellations made after eight business days before the course.

Funded in part through a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Small Business Administration. All opinions, conclusions or recommendations expressed are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the SBA. All services extended to the public on a non-discriminatory basis. © 2009 University of Pennsylvania. All Rights Reserved.

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