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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...

2023 Texas Pinners Conference and Expo

Get ready to be inspired and immersed in the world of creativity at the highly anticipated Texas Pinners Conference. This two-day event, hosted at the renowned Will Rogers Memorial Center, is a dream come true for Pinterest enthusiasts. The Pinners Conference is a top-rated Pinterest-inspired event that brings together individuals passionate about creativity and DIY projects. It is a conference and expo where attendees can explore various areas such as home décor, crafts, cooking, beauty, fashion, and more. The conference offers various classes, workshops, and demonstrations led by industry experts, influencers, and professionals in their respective fields. Participants can learn new...

2023 Texas Pinners Conference and Expo

Get ready to be inspired and immersed in the world of creativity at the highly anticipated Texas Pinners Conference. This two-day event, hosted at the renowned Will Rogers Memorial Center, is a dream come true for Pinterest enthusiasts. The Pinners Conference is a top-rated Pinterest-inspired event that brings together individuals passionate about creativity and DIY projects. It is a conference and expo where attendees can explore various areas such as home décor, crafts, cooking, beauty, fashion, and more. The conference offers various classes, workshops, and demonstrations led by industry experts, influencers, and professionals in their respective fields. Participants can learn new...

Taxes for Small Businesses

This webinar is designed to give an overview of a variety of Tax Topics relevant to small business owners. The focus of this webinar is going to be Income and Payroll taxes. Topics to be covered include: 1. Entity choice including tax fillings 2. Retirement planning – type of plans and how they work 3. The importance of accounting and bookkeeping 4. Payroll tax, including ERC 5. Sales tax 6. Independent contractors vs. employees 7. Cryptocurrency 8. ...

The Profit Playbook

Who Should Attend: anyone with a business or those planning to start a business. What You Will Learn: What you should be doing right now to get a stampede of new customers that pay, stay, and refer. The most expensive mistakes business owners are making and how to avoid them completely. How to structure your business in a way where you attract your best customers and repel the folks you don’t want to work with. How to design your business to make over 7-figures ($1,000,000+) in revenue....

Building Strong Business Credit

The Credit Reporting for a Small Business workshop provides an overview of credit reporting and is designed to help participants to understand how reporting their credit can benefit their business. This workshop will help entrepreneurs: -Understand the full scope of credit reporting and the impact of credit reports on the operation or growth of a small business -Discover strategies for building or improving business credit -Appreciate how personal credit scores impact the ability of a business to get credit Bio: Jennifer Jones is the SBA Relationship Manager, SVP for Independent Financial. With over 27 years of banking experience, 16 of those in Commercial and...

Innovate Fort Worth LIVE Recording

Hear an update about Cam Sadler's company, NewCraft HQ, and what he is doing now and plans to do next! Cam Sadler was a teacher at Dunbar High School with big ideas. One summer break, he cashed in his retirement savings and started a company that helps job seekers get offers from tech businesses. Soon he was in Silicon Valley, the first Fort Worth entrepreneur accepted into Y Combinator, the startup funder of AirBnb and DropBox. Listen to our first interview with Cam Sadler here: https://www.unthsc.edu/innovate-fort-worth/from-fort-worth-to-silicon-valley/ Innovation is changing Fort Worth. Start-ups and a spirit of entrepreneurship are transforming the city known for...

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...