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Foundations Business Planning Program
Foundations is a learner-centered, activity-based curriculum designed to enable you, in the context of a group of peers, to discover for yourself what makes good business planning. By completing the learning tasks, you use your creativity, think for yourself, and practice group and individual problem-solving. The curriculum is also designed to create a safe atmosphere for learning, in which you and every group member is not “put on the spot,” “quizzed,” or otherwise made to repeat negative experiences that they may have had in earlier educational situations.
The curriculum covers eight sessions, devoted to the following areas of business planning, loan application, and group membership:
Session 1: Welcome, Introduction, Licensing and Legal Structures, Personal Budgeting
Session 2: Personal Credit, Start-up Costs, Overhead Costs
Session 3: Sales Unit, Break Even Point
Session 4: Sales and Profit Goals, Cash Flow, Review
Session 5: Target Markets, Market Research, Mission Statement, Marketing Message
Session 6: Competition, Pricing, Marketing Goals and Methods, Time line
Session 7: Financing Sources, Mountain BizWorks’ Loan Process, Review
Session 8: Presentation of Business Plans, Certification, and Where to go from here...
Pre-registration is required for Foundations. To set up an appointment for an information session, contact your nearest Mountain BizWorks office Resource Specialist.
