City, small-business advocates offer free workshop on how to start a business
The City of Fort Wayne in cooperation with the Greater Fort Wayne Chamber of Commerce, Women's Enterprise ' A Program of the Fort Wayne Women's Bureau, Small Business Administration, SCORE, Community Development Corp. and the Indiana Small Business Development Center will offer a free forum on how to start a business and self-employment Thursday.
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:
'¢ City of Fort Wayne's resources for small businesses
'¢ Legal business structure
'¢ Business planning
'¢ Financial tools and cash flow
'¢ Banking
'¢ 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 are Denise Porter-Ross of the City of Fort Wayne; attorney Joshua Burkhardt of Beer Mallers Backs & Salin, LLP; Shirley Busack of Women's Enterprise ' A Program of the Fort Wayne Women's Bureau; Les Baggett with SCORE; Ken McCory of the Indiana Small Business Development Center; and representatives from National City Bank.
The other workshops planned for 2009 are:
'¢ Pricing, June 18
'¢ Taxes and record-keeping, Aug. 20
'¢ New business start-up in a recession, Sept. 17
'¢ Procurement, Oct. 15
'¢ Patents, trademarks and copyright, Nov. 19
All workshops will be 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the Omni Room of the City-County Building.