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UPCOMING EVENTS
START YOUR BUSINESS IN 4 WEEKS
When: Tuesdays* @ 6-8pm: 6/4 – 6/25
*4-Week Commitment Required
Where: Hygge Coworking @ Camp North End (pronounced ‘Hoo-ga’)
Cost: FREE to Qualified Participants
In this FREE four-week long cohort, participants will learn about the core aspects of starting a business, including identifying potential markets, writing a business plan, running the finances of a business and marketing a business. You’ll work with mentors and peers in fun breakout activities designed to help strengthen your business ideas and prepare you for success! Get a $1800 value for FREE!
Brought to you by the SBTDC @ UNC Charlotte
Deadline: Friday, May 31st**
**Registration open to the first 30 qualified applicants
Description
Food trucks are the single fastest growing sector of the restaurant industry. Discover how to develop your business, build your brand and gain a loyal following. You will learn how to comply with regulatory requirements, to overcome common obstacles and to measure your success. Bonus: course includes a panel discussion with mobile food truck operators.
Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will:
- Understand unique laws and regulations for food trucks
- Investigate the feasibly of launching a mobile food business
- Become familiar with best practices in operating, marketing and branding a mobile food business
- * Last Class on June 25 – will end at 7:30pm
Description
Already know the basics? This second level course will help you expand your QuickBooks knowledge. Delve into advanced features such as forms creation, report and graph generation, job costing, inventory, payroll and trouble shooting.
Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, the participants will be able to:
- Create and edit reports and graphs
- Understand tracking and paying taxes with QuickBooks
- Understand estimating and job costing
- Understand the payroll function
Identifying hiring needs, designing positions, matching the right people to the position(s) and making sure they fit with your existing team and culture.
Speaker(s): Deanna Baumgarner
Pre-registration is required
Identifying hiring needs, designing positions, matching the right people to the position(s) and making sure they fit with your existing team and culture.
Speaker(s): Deanna Baumgarner
Pre-registration is required. Online Web Ex registrants will be emailed the access information 24 hours before the training session. Please call 704-330-6736 for technical issues. Meeting number (access code): 642 944 607 Meeting password: sbcn2019
Description
Already know the basics? This second level course will help you expand your QuickBooks knowledge. Delve into advanced features such as forms creation, report and graph generation, job costing, inventory, payroll and trouble shooting.
Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, the participants will be able to:
- Create and edit reports and graphs
- Understand tracking and paying taxes with QuickBooks
- Understand estimating and job costing
- Understand the payroll function
En este seminario gratis y en español usted recibirá información sobre cómo comenzar un negocio basado desde su casa. Se cubrirá información como licencias, requisitos del estado de Carolina del Norte, financiamiento y ayudas locales y oficiales que puede recibir.
Do you want to operate efficiently? Are your government or business partners going agile without you? Get your business certified! Build the skills needed to become a high-performing team member of an Agile Release Train (ART)—and learn how to collaborate effectively with other teams—by becoming a SAFe® 4 Practitioner (SP). During this two-day course, attendees will gain an in-depth understanding of lean operations, how it delivers value, and what they can do to effectively perform their role using Scrum, Kanban, and XP.
This seminar reviews the various forms of equity and debt financing, including conventional bank loans, SBA guaranteed loans, private loans, venture capital, factored receivables, credit cards and supplier trade credit.
Speaker(s): E. Bedford of Carolina Small Business Development Fund
Pre-registration required.
“Friends in Diversity” Multi-Cultural Networking Event
Event Supporting Sponsors
OUR PARTNERS
OUR PARTNERS
BEFCOR is a non-profit corporation providing business owners with long-term, fixed-rate financing for owner-occupied real estate and other fixed assets.
Carolina Business Capital (formerly Centralina Development Corporation) partners with banks to finance real estate and heavy equipment for small businesses across North Carolina.
CMSDCs mission is to expand business opportunities for Minority Business Enterprises.
Charlotte Business INClusion is a City of Charlotte program that seeks to increase utilization of Minority, Women and Small Business Enterprises in local contracting opportunities.
The Charlotte Regional Business Alliance is a membership, volunteer-led organization that creates competitive advantage by growing the economy, advocating pro-business public policies and delivering innovative programs and services.
We are a non-profit organization serving black-owned businesses in the Charlotte Mecklenburg region.
The Charlotte Mecklenburg Library offers a wide variety of resources for businesses and non-profit organizations.
The workforce development board offers services and programs to support your business’s growth potential: customized recruiting assistance, training grants for new and incumbent workers, labor market information and more.
The City of Charlotte provides business development support through a variety of services and programs.
City Startup Labs (CSL) has a mission of reimaging of African American millennials (Black Adults 18-34 yrs.) as a new class of entrepreneurs and innovators.
The Central Piedmont Corporate Learning Center provides training and development opportunities for businesses and organizations. They offer hundreds of courses and hands-on programs, all of which can be customized to meet each entrepreneur’s needs.
The Small Business Center at CPCC provides expert assistance and valuable resources to prospective and existing small business owners and non-profit organizations.
The purpose of the Latin American Chamber of Commerce of Charlotte (LACCC) is to offer a sustainable bilingual platform of programs, events and services that engages, empowers and supports both Latino and non-Latino businesses, entrepreneurs and professionals.
Mecklenburg County oversees many business license and permit processes and seeks to increase participation of MWSBE firms in the business community.
The National Black MBA Association (NBMBAA), Charlotte Chapter, a non-profit organization established in 1985, is a professional development organization serving the Charlotte community at large.
NAWBO Charlotte is a professional organization specifically designed to fuel the success of the 42,000 women-owned businesses in the greater Charlotte area.
About our Partner Prospera is an economic development, non-profit organization specialized in providing bilingual assistance… Read More
SCORE counselors and mentors are dedicated to helping entrepreneurs and small business owners start and grow successful businesses.
The nonprofit Center for Community Self-Help and its financing affiliates provide business loans and technical support to businesses throughout the Charlotte region.
The SBTDC is here to help small business owners meet the challenges of today’s business environment – manage their ever-changing world, and plan for the future of their business…
The SBA provides a variety of assistance to small businesses including loans and loan guarantees as well as counseling and training workshops – bond guarantees and business advocacy.
About our Partner The Center for Private Business at Wake Forest University is a membership… Read More
The Employers Association is Charlotte’s premier partner for human resource solutions, helping employers build successful workplaces.
Ventureprise is a broad-based hands-on strategic effort to help high growth startups and early stage companies grow.
The Women’s Business Center provides tools and support to help women-owned businesses start and grow.
