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The Small Business Development Center helps businesses become more successful and meet the challenges of tomorrow. Whether you are starting a business, buying a business, growing a business, selling a business or looking for financing, we can help you!

Steps to Starting a Business

Selecting the Idea

  • Consider work experience, hobbies, consumer experiences
  • Fill an existing need in the marketplace

Testing the Market

  • Learn everything about the business, industry, marketplace
  • Know your competition and customers

Acquiring Capital

  • 70% of all start-ups funded with equity financing
  • 6 C's of Capital: Cash, Credit, Collateral, Capacity to repay, Condition of the industry, Character

WRiting a Business Plan

  • 3 reasons to write a business plan: communication tool, road map, objective look

Turning for Help

  • Accountant, attorney, banker, insurance agent, management consultant, government service providers, mentor

Understanding Legal Requirements

  • Legal forms of organization
  • Licenses, permits and taxes

Putting it All Together

  • Attend workshops in the STARTUP series
  • Use the SBDC Help Desk for basic questions
  • Make an appointment with an SBDC Certified Business Analyst

The 7 Steps to Starting a Business form the basis of the curriculum taught in the three-hour "How to STARTUP Your Own Business" workshop.  A schedule of workshops includes this workshop, as well as a number of other STARTUP training programs including Marketing 101, Where's the Money?, Coming Out of the Shoebox, Taking the AX out of Taxes, and Business Plan for Startups.

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The SBDC at UNF is a member of the Florida SBDC Network, a statewide network funded in part through a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Small Business Administration.

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