"Starting a Business" workshop Feb. 18 begins series of monthly business presentations
The City of Fort Wayne in cooperation with Women’s Enterprise, the Greater Fort Wayne Chamber of Commerce, Small Business Administration, SCORE, Community Development Corp. and the Indiana Small Business Development Center will offer the free Keys for Business Start-up workshop about starting a business and self-employment Thursday, Feb. 18.
The workshop, which will be 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the Omni Room on the second floor of the City-County Building, will cover the following topics:
• Business legal structure
• Programs available through the City
• Business planning
• Financial tools and cash flow
• Banking and credit
• Funding sources and strategies
The topics are designed for people who are thinking about starting a business or have recently launched a new venture and have questions.
The workshop’s presenters include attorney Joshua Burkhardt of Beers Mallers Backs & Salin, LLP; Bill Causey, Les Baggett and George Schenkel with SCORE; and Ken McCory of the Indiana Small Business Development Center.
The other workshops planned for 2010 are:
• Procurement, March 18
• Franchising, April 15
• Business Expo, May 20
• Commercial Kitchen, June 17
• Taxes and Record Keeping, Aug. 19
• Keys for Business Start-Up, Sept. 16
• Importing & Exporting, Oct. 21
• Patents, Trademarks, Copyright, Nov. 18
• Keys for Business Start-Up, Dec. 16
All workshops except October’s importing and exporting session will be 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the Omni Room of the City-County Building.