Events/Workshops

This seminar will help businesses be proactive when addressing the following areas: solve cash crisis, get control of your finances & look at your costs, address personal and personnel issues, improve efficiency, and refocus on the market and initiate low cost programs. These strategies will be most important, when trying to survive in an economic downturn.

Speaker: Carla Withers, Small Business Development Center

This workshop will give one an opportunity to learn from an experienced CFO and to ask pressing questions about ways to cut cost and improve profitability. When sales are low, business owners need to search for internal ways to reduce cost, improve efficiency, and track their cash flow. David will give practical ways to improve cash flow in a challenging economy. Small business owners should not miss this workshop.

Speaker: David W. Whitwell, CPA, MBA ~ B2B CFO®

Far too often, people are so eager to start a new business or product that they end up skipping some very important considerations. This is very likely one of the major reasons that so many new businesses fail within the first five years. This workshop will help you to ensure that you're really ready to start your new venture. This 3 hour workshop will help future entrepreneurs to plan for success. Business plans, market research, funding options, and resources available to assist individuals in starting a business will be discussed. You will also complete an assessment that will determine your stage of development and based on the assessment you will be aligned with the appropriate business resource partner that will provide assistance.

This three hour presentation by DSBDC staff provides an overview of the fundamentals of starting a business in Delaware. The seminar addresses issues one should consider before starting a business including the business plan, forms of business, and resources available to you.