Entrepreneur Growth Lab
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Get help starting or expanding your small business
Do you have a business idea and don’t know where to start? Have you started a business and need help with what to do next? Our Entrepreneur Growth Lab is for you!
Entrepreneur Growth Lab Description
WEDC’s professional trainers will assist you with navigating all aspects of starting, running, and growing your business; helping you to create a roadmap for success.
Topics include:
- Business Model Canvas and how to conduct customer discovery to ensure your product fits with the needs of the marketplace.
- Create a customer profile and conduct a competitive analysis.
- Utilize the latest digital marketing techniques, social media, branding, and media strategies.
- Create an executive summary and pitch presentation to communicate your value proposition
- Perfect your sales strategies.
- Determine forms of business ownership.
- Create an operating budget for your business.
- Develop financial management skills including record keeping and financial statements.
The program culminates in a pitch contest with up to three cash prizes!!! Thank you Hudson Valley Credit Union for being WEDC's exclusive 2023 EGL pitch contest sponsor.
Registration fee is $200.
Locations & Schedules
WEDC has two locations in Westchester County and the Mid-Hudson Valley. Choose from the locations below to see the course schedules and which works best for you. Courses also offered in Espanol.
Classes Start March 7, 2023
Entrepreneur Growth Lab
Sessions are held primarily on Tuesday evenings from 6 to 9pm
There is a Saturday session on March 11th: 10:30am - 4:00pm & some Saturday morning Open Office Hours will be scheduled
The registration fee is $200
This is a Hybrid program with approximately half of the sessions in-person at WEDC’s North White Plains office, and half remote over Zoom. Please keep in mind that this may be subject to change.
Clases empiezan en marzo del 2023
Laboratorio para el Crecimiento Emprendedor
Sesiones se llevan a cabo los jueves por la noche de 6 a 9 pm.
Actualmente las clases son un híbrido con sesiones remotas por la plataforma Zoom y algunas sesiones presenciales. Esto está sujeto a cambios.
Classes start February 14, 2023
Entrepreneur Growth Lab
Sessions are held Tuesday evenings from 6 to 9 PM. The registration fee is $200.
Currently classes are a hybrid with primarily in-person sessions and a few remote on Zoom. This schedule is subject to change.
Clases comienzan el 14 de septiembre del 2022
Programa de Entrenamiento Empresarial
Sesiones se llevan a cabo primordialmente los miércoles por la noche de 6 a 9 pm.
Actualmente las clases son un híbrido con sesiones remotas por la plataforma Zoom y algunas sesiones presenciales. Esto está sujeto a cambios.
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The Women’s Enterprise Development Center (WEDC), a 501(c)(3) corporation, has been empowering women entrepreneurs to build successful small businesses since 1997 in Westchester County and the Hudson Valley. This is accomplished by providing comprehensive, high quality business training programs, one-on-one business and loan counseling, networking opportunities, assistance with loan applications for microloans and crowd funding through Kiva Zip, and MWBE certification assistance in English and Spanish. WEDC’s overarching goal is to build a vibrant community of women business owners, comprised of start-up and established companies.
The Women’s Enterprise Development Center (WEDC), a 501(c)(3) corporation, has been empowering women entrepreneurs to build successful small businesses since 1997 in Westchester County and the Hudson Valley. Our overarching goal is to build a vibrant community of women business owners, comprised of start-up and established companies.