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Starting Your Own Business? What you should do before writing your Business Plan

This workshop will focus on the key steps you need to consider in organizing your business concept to creating a Business Plan. Your business concept is the fundamental idea behind your plan. Before investing your time to writing a Business Plan you need to validate the viability of your business concept. Your business model, plan, vision, and your mission are developed based on your concept. In this workshop we will discuss the following: -Defining your business concept -Ways to validation idea to testing your concept -Leverage competitive tools to gaining deeper insights -Purpose and structure of a Business Plan -Role and purpose of your mentors -Next steps...

July 21By Comments OffRead more...

QuickBooks for Intermediate/Advanced (Day 2)

This class is for those who are already using QuickBooks. Now that you have gotten your feet wet with QuickBooks, this course will really help you get the most out of your QuickBooks investment. Our instructor makes it fun (even if you don't think accounting and finance can be fun)! SCORE Dallas along with an accredited QuickBooks Instructor, Everett Burton will... - Help you use QuickBooks for payroll and tracking time - Walk you through using QuickBooks to make your operations more efficient - Show you how you can make it easier for customers to remit payment ...

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Simple Steps to Starting Your Business

Do you dream about starting a business? You're not alone - millions of Americans share that dream. And yet, not everyone has the courage to get started. If you're ready to branch out on your own, this workshop is for you. Proper planning is key. One myth is that the majority of small businesses fail. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, after two years in business, the majority of startups succeed; after five years, about half fail and half succeed. Proper planning and hard work is the only way to guard against failure. You are on the right track with...

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TEN Capital Quick Pitch

Join TEN Capital Network LIVE for our next Quick Pitch session featuring a select group of TEN clients and an experienced panel of investors. During this event, a handful of TEN Clients will have a chance to pitch and connect to our featured panel of tech investors. Come get a rare view of the pitch process and hear feedback in real-time. This month's guest panelist is Vadim Balashov, Managing Partner at Viaduct Ventures.

February 23By Comments OffRead more...

5 Things to Know About the New Techstars Accelerator in Fort Worth

As you may have seen in the news recently, Fort Worth is now the home of a Techstars accelerator program that will bring startup companies to Fort Worth to help them grow and bring innovations in physical healthcare. This is big news for Fort Worth as our city was the largest city in the country that did not have an accelerator program like this, which invests directly in the companies and recruits the best of the best companies from around the world. But, accelerator programs are not well-known in our area. And, Techstars has not had much of a presence in...

April 8By Comments OffRead more...

3 Lessons from a PeopleFund Borrower

PeopleFund is a CDFI = Community Development Financial Institution and is a non-profit lender. A CDFIs’ goal is to broaden economic opportunity by providing access to financial services. CDFIs provide a range of financial products, like mortgages for low-income and first-time home buyers and commercial loans for small businesses (PeopleFund). About 1,000 CDFIs are in operation across the country. One of the amazing things about CDFIs is that they offer technical assistance and training programs to small businesses to help them get started and grow sustainably. Some offer mentoring and advisory services (That’s ME!).  We know that learning and growth requires support. To apply for financing, small-business owners...

February 18By Comments OffRead more...

Growth of 40,000+%? (Yeah, you read that right)

Each year, Inc. Magazine puts out its list of the 5,000 fastest growing companies in America. Think of it like the Forbes 500 (largest US companies) for startups. To be on this list is prestigious and it means your company is doing something right and growing at warp speed. In 2020, the #1 company on the list -- the fastest growing company in America (OneTrust) -- grew at an astonishing 48,377 percent over the last three years. Yeah, that’s hyper growth. But how did local companies do? Where did Fort Worth-based companies come out on this list? How did we do...