building an entrepreneur friendly community existing and future entrepreneurs panel discussion
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- Building An Entrepreneur Friendly Community Existing and Future Entrepreneurs Panel Discussion
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- Session Goals To learn from the success of existing local entrepreneurs To discover action steps our community can take to support existing and emerging entrepreneurs
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- Question One What educational background (formal or informal) prepared you to be an entrepreneur?
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- Question Two What is the biggest obstacle you had to overcome to start or grow your business? In your response please include comments regarding: How you overcame the obstacle? Does the obstacle still exist in the community for new entrepreneurs?
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- Question Three This question is for new & emerging entrepreneurs As you think about starting your business, what is your greatest concern?
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- Question Four How did you initially finance your business? Please note if your business was a new start-up or did you purchase an existing business or perhaps inherit a business?
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- Question Five How did you market your business at start-up?
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- Question Six How did you use a social network to gain information and assistance? Is there a need in the community for additional networks?
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- Question Seven If you could choose, what would be the one thing that community leaders could do to help entrepreneurs be successful?
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- Thank You For Participating Information from this session will be used: By the class participants in creating a strategic plan to support entrepreneurs By each of us as we either start our business, grow our business or seek to provide support to entrepreneurs