Business Building Program Workshops

Supports entrepreneurs from idea stage through execution

• First Step: Starting a Small Business
  

  This workshop assists entrepreneurs in starting successful businesses.

• Second Step: Researching and Evaluating Your Business Idea
  

  Second Step provides you with the tools to evaluate the challenges and feasibility of your business idea through research and planning.

• Third Step: Strategic Business Planning
  

  Strategic Business Planning is a workshop to develop skills, methods, and strategies as you draft your business plans.

Introduction to Consulting Meetings

• What Can the Wharton SBDC Do for Your Business?
  

  The Wharton SBDC Program for Entrepreneurs begins with Introductory Meetings, where you will meet our professional staff, learn about the program, and begin your consulting engagement.

• What Can the Wharton SBDC Do for Your Business? Meetings Via Conference Call
  

  Join us via conference call to learn about how our consulting and education programs can help you to start, grow, and prosper.

Finance & Funding Series Workshops

• Meet the Lenders
  

  Join us for a special panel of banks and other lending organizations. You will get information on how they evaluate your loan applications and the kind of funding they can provide. You will have the opportunity to meet and discuss your own business issues with representatives from the panelists.

Special Workshops

• Business Opportunities for Pennsylvania Businesses in Colombia and Panama: Free Trade Agreements and Trade Mission
  

  This workshop will provide details to prepare for developing business opportunities in Panama and Columbia by a participating in a trade mission to Panama and Columbia, June 23-29, 2013.

• Employee to Entrepreneur
  

  The workshop will help you assess your own aptitude to be an entrepreneur and assess different business ideas

• Execution Support Program
  

  Execution Support is a series of once-monthly evening sessions of small group consulting and facilitated peer sharing for entrepreneurs and small business owners who have going businesses.

• Exploring your Business Start-up Options
  

  Exploring Your Business Start-up Options is for those who are considering whether to start their own business.

• First Step -- Life Sciences Workshop
  

  The First Step -- Life Sciences provides you with the tools to evaluate the challenges and feasibility of your business idea through research and planning.

• The Very First Step: Starting Up after Getting Out
  

  The Very First Step is for those who are considering whether to start their own business. This workshop is especially targeted to Life Sciences industry professionals who are finding that starting their own business is an important option to consider.

The Wharton SBDC is partially funded under Cooperative Agreement No. 5-603001-Z-0040-25 by the U. S. Small Business Administration. The support given by the U. S. Small Business Administration through such funding does not constitute an express or implied endorsement of any of the co-sponsor(s)’ or participants’ opinions, findings, conclusion, recommendations, products or services.

All SBDC programs are non-discriminatory and open to the public. Reasonable arrangements for persons with disabilities will be made, if requested at least two weeks in advance. Please contact Therese Flaherty, Wharton SBDC, 3733 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA, 215-898-4861.

This project was financed in part by a grant from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Community and Economic Development.