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1. Self-Assessment
2. Business Idea
3. Market Analysis
4. Management Skills
5. Business Planning
6. Forecasting
7. Financing
8. Support Help
9. Venture Launch
10. Monitor Progress
Graduation!

Building A Resource Network – Often it is the relationships and networks that help a business to succeed. This Session is an opportunity to identify important resources that you can start networking with to build awareness of other resources and your own support networks. As with the other Sessions, you will get as much out of these exercises as you put in. Our advice is to find these resources and then proactively build your networks. Here we provide you with listings of public sector agencies that can help with a variety of business development issues. There are private sector partners that you will need to incorporate in your resource network as well. You can ask the public sector counselors for referrals or check with your local business organization such as your local chamber of commerce.

The activities in this Session are fieldwork. Start to identify your Resource Network partners – our BUZGate network will show you who they are and where they are located, then go and have a meeting with them. Your time invested in this way will pay huge dividends.

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