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Becoming an Entrepreneur

Business Plan Workshop: Your road map to success!

The FastTrac® NewVenture™ 10-week comprehensive workshop is for anyone who wants to start or grow a business. Everyone tells you that you need a business plan, but you don’t know how to get started. Or you have an outline and find it to be too daunting and overwhelming. Then, this program is right for you:

  • Session 1: Exploring Entrepreneurship
  • Session 2: Identifying/Meeting Market Needs
  • Session 3: Setting Financial Goals
  • Session 4: Planning the Product/Service
  • Session 5: Researching/Analyzing the Market
  • Session 6: Reaching the Market
  • Session 7: Building the Organization & Team
  • Session 8: Planning for a Profitable Business
  • Session 9: Cash Flow & Seeking Funds
  • Session 10: Implementing Next Steps

What is FastTrac®?

The road to successful entrepreneurship begins with a passion for an idea, a business plan based on research and analysis, and the persistence to pursue the vision. Whether you have always dreamed of being an entrepreneur or recent circumstances triggered thoughts about starting a business, FastTrac® NewVenture™ is designed to introduce you to the key elements of successful entrepreneurship.

FastTrac® is sponsored by The Kauffman Foundation and was designed by entrepreneurs, for entrepreneurs. Hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs around the country have graduated from these programs and will tell you that it was invaluable to them.

FastTrac® is not your ordinary workshop! You are working on your business in non-traditional, hands-on coaching sessions.

There’s no talking heads. Opportunities to network and learn from your peers, as well as seasoned entrepreneurs and professionals, who work with start-up businesses, are a key part of the experience.

Go to the Calendar for the class schedule and registration.

Strategic Planning Workshop

The FastTrac® Listening to Your Business™ workshop is for entrepreneurs who get caught up in their own company’s daily operations and do not take time to plan for the future. In essence, the entrepreneur spends all their time working IN the business rather than ON the business.

FastTrac’s Listening to Your Business will provide you with the tools you need to spend time ON your business to plan for the future. Through this interactive and enlightening workshop, you will take time to listen to your business and develop a strategic direction for the future. Tools and resources will be available to help you take the necessary steps towards achieving your vision.

  • What is it?
    Listening to Your Business is a hands-on, facilitated workshop designed to provide business owners and managers with the critical evaluation tools and action steps they need to maximize the growth and profitability of their business.
  • What will I do at the workshop?
    This workshop will take you and a group of peer entrepreneurs through a four-step evaluation and action process designed to enhance your company’s performance now and into the future including
    • Step 1. Setting your three-year vision. A series of activities through which you will discover where your business is today and where you want it to be in three years.
    • Step 2. Taking a snapshot of your business. A process to determine what stage of development your business is in today (concept, start-up, growth, maturity, innovation or decline) and what stage you want to be three years from now.
    • Step 3. Evaluating where you are in the planning process. Assess what plans are or are not in place (feasibility plan, business plan, strategic plan, operational plan)
    • Step 4: Translating your goals into action steps. Nail down the actions and resources that your company needs to reach its three-year goals.
  • Who should attend the workshop?
    Busy business owners and managers who are ready to gain better control of their businesses and personal lives while positioning themselves to take maximum advantage of future opportunities. The Listening to Your Business workshop is a fast, inexpensive way to learn to see your own business as it really is now, while working to take it into a successful future.
  • Who created the workshop?
    Developed by FastTrac and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, the Listening to Your Business workshop is based upon the successful FastTrac business development programs that have been taught for over 10 years throughout the United States.

The FastTrac entrepreneurial development programs are distributed nationally by the Entrepreneurial Education Foundation, a not-for-profit organization based in Kansas City, MO. More than 90,000 entrepreneurs, aspiring entrepreneurs, small business owners and university students have completed FastTrac entrepreneur facilitator-led courses.

FastTrac is sponsored by the Kauffman Foundation and is the winner of the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Vision 2000 Models of Excellence Award for Entrepreneurial Education.

For more information on FastTrac, visit: www.fasttrac.org.

Go to the Calendar of Events page for the class schedule and registration.