Free Entrepreneurship Workshop
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The International Economic Development Council (IEDC) is holding a free workshop on entrepreneurship in Beaumont, TX. Divided into two sessions, this workshop will focus on implementation strategies for technical assistance report recommendations delivered to Beaumont in early 2013. IEDC is also planning to offer an entrepreneurship workshop later this summer in Lake Charles, LA. The Beaumont and Lake Charles workshops will be tailored to the specific needs of each community, but will also feature strategies applicable to economic developers elsewhere who are working to enhance their community’s entrepreneurship ecosystem and diversify the local economy.
Connecting to Capital
Date: Thursday, April 11, 2013 Time: 2:45 - 3:45pm CST Location: Holiday Inn Beaumont Plaza, 3950 Walden Rd., Beaumont, TX 77705 Designed for entrepreneurs and small business support organizations, this one-hour session is part of the Southeast Texas Economic Development Foundation’s Business Development Week. Connecting to Capital is a preview of Friday’s half-day workshop, Organizational Management and Finance for Business Incubators. Connecting to Capital will provide strategies for building organizational capacity to connect entrepreneurs to capital. Attendees will learn how to improve entrepreneurs’ access to both private and public sources of capital.Organizational Management and Finance for Business Incubators
Date: Friday, April 12, 2013 Time: 8:30am - 12:00pm CST Location: Holiday Inn Beaumont Plaza, 3950 Walden Rd., Beaumont, TX 77705 The purpose of this workshop is to provide practical strategies and best-practice case information for building sustainability in the operations and financial structure of a university-based business incubator. During this workshop attendees will:- Become familiar with best practices in business incubator organizational management, including key elements for writing an effective business plan, developing a marketing and communications strategy, and establishing performance metrics for measuring success;
- Discover how to closely partner with regional stakeholders to leverage community and university resources;
- Better understand how to develop a self-sustaining organizational budget, including identifying and implementing diverse revenue streams; and
- Learn how other communities have successfully used their business incubator to implement an economic diversification initiative through entrepreneurship.
