The First Step: Starting a Small Business

The First Step provides you with the tools to evaluate the challenges and feasibility of your business idea through research and planning.

This two-part course moves at a quick pace and focuses on solutions to specific issues confronting people considering starting their own business including:

  • Personal issues of being an entrepreneur
  • Financing a business
  • The business planning process
  • Marketing mechanics of starting a business
  • Regulations governing a business
  • Environmental, health, and safety considerations when starting a business

Registration Fee: $50.00

Included with your registration fee is a one-year subscription (12 issues) to Inc. magazine, valued at $10.

This workshop series is offered once per month.

All Wharton SBDC courses are offered free to veterans.

To register as a veteran, please call 215-898-4861

For registration information and additional information Click Here

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