Session 1 - Starting with a Good Idea

• Exploring Business Opportunities
• Forty Concepts for a Small Business
• Evaluating Your Ideas
• Protecting Your Idea

Session 2 - Marketing Basics

• Marketing Primer
• Researching Your Market
• Sales Forecasting
• Business Promotion Idea List

Session 3 - Financing Your Business

• Equity Financing
• Long Term Debt Financing
• Short Term Debt Financing
• Alternative Sources of Financing

Session 4 - Planning Fundamentals

• Preparing a Cash Flow Forecast
• Preparing a Business Plan
• Sample Business Plan

Session 5 - Basic Regulations for Getting Started

• Proprietorship, Partnership or Incorporation?
• Taxes
• Becoming an Employer
• Start Up Checklist

Session 6 - Setting up an E-business: The Basics

• Marketing
• Technologies
• Regulations