Thinking about going into business? Spend one evening getting a clear picture of what it's really like to run a small business. Assess your own strengths and weaknesses as a business owner. Learn how to do a realistic feasibility study to understand the potential for your business. Discover what information you need and where to find it. This program is designed for people who have not yet started a business but are ready to take the First Step. You will learn how to answer these important questions:

• Do you have the right personality, skills and life situation to start and manage a business?
• Do you have a good business idea that will meet a customer need and make a profit?
• How much money will be needed to start your business?
• What funding sources are available for me to start my business?

The First Steps Workshop is held monthly on the 3rd Wednesday of the month from 6:30pm to 9:00pm. The workshop is held in the Bogue Business Enterprise Center on the campus of Colorado Mountain College, Steamboat Springs, Colorado. This seminar is FREE!

Up Coming First Steps Workshops
- January 16, 2008
- February 20, 2008
- March 19, 2008
- April 16, 2008

Address:
Bogue Hall Business Enterprise Center
1370 Bob Adams Drive
Steamboat Springs, CO 80487
Map and Driving Instructions to Bogue Business Enterprise Center
For more information email sford@colorado.edu or call (970) 870-4491

We understand the sense of urgency you have in wanting to start your business as soon as possible. This sense of urgency can be your best friend and/or your worse enemy and often both. It is easy to become swept away in what Michael Gerber author of The E-Myth describes as an entrepreneurial seizure. (This book is available though major book sellers or get a copy free by attending a scheduled First Steps Workshop.)

The Colorado Mountain College Small Business Resource Center and Yampa Valley SCORE are committed not only to fostering a culture of entrepreneurship but helping you start a small business that works. An important first step in this process is to spend the time necessary to assess the feasibility of your business idea. This is not a delay or an unnecessary step. It is a step critical if you plan to be successful. We can assure you that this will be time well spent.

If you feel you have a well-developed business concept ~ we suggest you begin completing the Business Feasibility Workbook. If you feel that the business concept you are considering could use some refinement and/or you want to learn more about what is involved in starting a business consider taking the free on-line course offered by My Own Business.