Entrepreneurship and Small Business Ownership Webinar

The Entrepreneurship and Small Business Ownership Webinar is designed to assist Career and One Stop Counselors in presenting entrepreneurship and small business ownership to clients who express an interest in, have the potential to become, or have the skills necessary to own a business. This Webinar will take you through the steps to help individuals assess their skills, provide resources for them to obtain information, and talk specifically about what New Jersey has to offer a small business owner.

To view the Webinar, please follow these steps:

1. Go to http://itunes.njit.edu
2. Click on Guests (right-hand side of the page). This will load iTunes onto your computer. If you currently don't have iTunes on your computer, please download it at http://www.apple.com/itunes.
3. Find the North Jersey Partners Webinar under Heard on Campus.

A potential entrepreneur will also find this Webinar very useful because it provides information to get him or her started on the road to opening and operating small business. Below please find the Webinar transcription as a Powerpoint Presentation to review at your own pace.

Entrepreneurship & Small Business Ownership Transcription

The facilitators for this program were Judith Sheft, associate vice president of technology development for the New Jersey Institute of Technology, and Jeffery Dunn, executive director of the B.O.S.S. - the Business One Stop Service center in Plainfield, New Jersey.

Entrepreneurship - Seize the Opportunity - Resource Guides in English and Spanish

Thinking about starting your own business? Getting started can be the most difficult part. Where do you begin? What do you need to know? Who can provide some guidance? What resources are available?

North Jersey Partners would like to help you get started by providing you with the necessary information and list of available resources from the State of New Jersey, the U.S. Government, and other business organizations. This three-piece series of Resource Guides entitled, Entrepreneurship Seize the Opportunity, was designed to answer some of the basic questions about starting a small business as well as lead you to the appropriate resources to assist you in the process. These Resource Guides are available in English and Spanish.

Resource Guide #1 Is Entrepreneurship Right for You?, helps you to determine if being a small business owner is a good career path for you. It explains what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur.

Entrepreneurship - Is It Right For You?

Entrepreneurship - Is It Right For You? - Spanish

Resource Guide #2, Federal and State Resources, provides the list of New Jersey and U.S. government resources available to you to answer all your questions about small business ownership.

Entrepreneurship - State and Federal Resources

Entrepreneurship - Federal and State Resources - Spanish

Resource Guide #3, Why New Jersey?, gives you the facts about the benefits of opening and operating a small business in the Garden State.

Entrepreneurship - Why New Jersey? (pdf)

Entrepreneurship - Why New Jersey? - Spanish

North Jersey Partners encourages you to follow your dream to open the business of your choice and anticipate you will find this series helpful in your decision-making process. In addition to the Resource Guide series, below please find a fact sheet of New Jersey and Federal Resource web sites to make your information gathering process easier.

NJ/Federal Resources Fact Sheet

We wish you success in all of your future business endeavors.

Perfecting Your Pitch - A Compelling Case for Investment

Perfecting Your Pitch is a presentation that helps those starting new business ventures to know what and how to present information in ways that pique investors' interest. The presentation, developed by North Jersey Partners in conjunction with NJEntrepreneur.com, provides an outline for the investor presentation, reviews confidentiality tactics, illustrates ways to appeal to the investor's needs, and provides a checklist of types of information to cover.

For further information on entrepreneurship or small business ownership, contact Judith Sheft at (973) 596-5825 or sheft@njit.edu, or Jeanne Gray at (908) 917-9900 or jgray@njentrepreneur.com.

Perfecting the Pitch

Build Your Financial Model and Valuation of Early Stage Companies

The New Jersey Center for Innovation Acceleration, funded by North Jersey Partners, is presenting the Build Your Financial Model and Valuation of Early Stage Companies program, consisting of two hands-on and intensive workshops to assist small businesses and entrepreneurs in raising capital.

Financial Modeling Essentials for Raising Capital, a two-day workshop, will cover all the key aspects of developing a financial model including profit and loss, balance sheets, cash flow statements, and applying valuation techniques for your business. The course is scheduled as follows:

Thursday & Friday, September 10-11, 2009 - New Jersey City University Business Development Incubator - Jersey City, NJ
Thursday & Friday, October 1-2, 2009 - New Jersey City University - BDI
Thursday & Friday, October 8-9, 2009 - Sussex Community College - Newton, NJ
Monday & Tuesday, November 16-17, 2009 - New Jersey Institute of Technology - Newark, NJ
Wednesday & Thursday, December 2-3, 2009 - New Jersey Institute of Technology - Newark, NJ
Thursday & Friday, January 14-15, 2010 - New Jersey Institute of Technology - Newark, NJ

Valuation of Early-Stage Companies, a one-day workshop, will strengthen the key elements of your business financial model and enhance the focal points that venture capitalists evaluate for funding. The course is scheduled as follows:

Friday, October 30, 2009 - New Jersey Institute of Technology - Newark, NJ
Thursday, December 17, 2009 - Fairleigh Dickinson University - Madison, NJ
Thursday, January 28, 2010 - New Jersey Institute of Technology - Newark, NJ

Both workshops are presented by The Globecon Group, a leading provider of professional development for corporate and investment banking institutions. The registration fee is $50 for each workshop. To qualify for the programs, you must live, work or operate a business in Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Morris, Passaic, Sussex, Union or Warren counties. Class size is limited to 25 participants. For further information as well as dates and locations, please contact Judith Sheft at (973) 596-5825 or sheft@njit.edu.

Click here to download the brochure

To register, please click here.

Evening Entrepreneurial Training to Improve Skills in the TLD Market

Are you an entrepreneur in the Transportation, Logistics, and Distribution Industry but find it hard to make training classes during the day? You can improve your skills with an evening course offered by North Jersey Partners in conjunction with Fast Trac and The B.O.S.S. (The Business One Stop Service). The eight-week training program will include creating business and marketing plans as well as explaining loan packaging and the government procurement process.