Business Building Program Workshops

Supports entrepreneurs from idea stage through execution

• 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.

• 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.

• Strategic Business Planning
  

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

• The First Step: Starting a Small Business
  

  The First Step is a discussion-oriented course that draws on real world examples, including your own, to provide an introduction to the key issues related to starting a business.

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 toll-free conference call to learn about how our consulting and education programs can help you to start, grow, and prosper.

Finance & Funding Series Workshops

• 9 Steps to Maximize the Value of Your Business
  

  Participants will learn how to increase the value of their business in preparation for finding investors, lenders, or buyers.

• Introduction to Financial Planning
  

  This course is designed to support small business owners in developing their own financial plans and financial statements for their business. The course will address sources of funding, estimating funding needs, and strategies for acquiring funding.

• Meet the Lenders
  

• Understanding Your Financial Statements
  

  Learn how to make good business decisions, how to monitor your business, and how to plan your future growth with some basic accounting tools.

Special Workshops

• Become An Effective Schmoozer...and Take Your Network to the Next Level!
  

  Learn to network to increase your sales!

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.