Helping you grow is our success! In this session we will introduce you to everything you need to consider when starting a business.

Wendy Foster, one of the City Business Library's Business Advisers, will look at some of the key elements of starting a business and give you tools to start researching your business idea and how you can start to create your business plan.

Who is this for: anyone thinking of starting a business.

The session will cover information set out in the agenda below

11:30 Introduction to the City Business Library and Membership.

11:35

• Legal status
• Raising finance
• Who you need to tell
• Your business premises
• Intellectual Property

11:50

• SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats)
• Financial forecasting and pricing
• Business plans and Business Model Canvas

12:20 Q&A

We hope to have enough time to go through some of your questions, if we don't please feel free to email us after the session we would be more than happy to help you.

Business 121 advice sessions

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