**E-Seed Express: Entrepreneurship Training**
- Determining if you have a feasible idea
- Identifying and analyzing your industry, competition and market
- The legalities, risks and regulatory issues facing business owners
- Developing strategies to secure talent, professional services and capital
- Available financing including SBA Loan Guarantees, working with banks and credit unions, angel inventors, venture capitalist and more
**Explore Starting A Business**
- Complimentary session provides a look at what it takes to launch a start-up or small business
- The entrepreneur/business owner mindset
- Critical questions to consider when launching or growing a business
- Entrepreneurship Trainings: The experience and the results
- 12 essentials for ramping up your business
**Get the Right Financing for Your Business**
- The lender concept, use of a risk rating and what makes a good rating vs. a poor one
- How daily business decisions create the cash flow of business
- Ways to create better short-term and long-term cash flow
- Successful techniques to negotiate with lenders and how to choose the right lender for you and your business
- The value and benefits of projections supported with written assumptions
- Developing an action plan to get funding
- Submitting your financial request by presenting to a panel of lenders for feedback and insight
**Introduction to the Amazon.com Selling Platform**
- Amazon product sourcing vs. launching a new product
- Amazon MFN and FBA Programs
- Upsides and downsides to selling on Amazon
- Critical concepts to selling on Amazon
- Third party tools to simplify selling on Amazon
- Strategies to move your business off the Amazon.com platform
**Marketing Made Lean**
- Defining your business purpose
- Connecting with your vision
- Positioning and developing marketing channels
- Customer relationship strategies
- Marketing ROI, strategic planning and implementation
**Work for Yourself at 50+**
- What it means to work for yourself
- The advantages and challenges of starting a business
- Moving your idea forward
- Avoiding common self-employment mistakes
- Find your focus and put your options to work
- Discover sources of support and additional services available to entrepreneurs and/or business owners