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School is starting again, and maybe you’ve been thinking about starting something yourself. You’re never too old to learn something new, and these events can be the catalyst for your next step.

Explore the most comprehensive list of business-building events on the KCSourceLink Calendar. There are a lot more great opportunities to check out there.
 
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Host at Global Entrepreneurship Week - KC!
Proposals due Aug. 28.

Upcoming Virtual and In-Person Business Events


Keystone Sessions Featuring KCSourceLink: How to Prep Your Session for GEWKC

4 - 8 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 24
800 E. 18th St., Kansas City, Missouri
 
Meet the KCSourceLink team at this weekly Wednesday event hosted by the Keystone Innovation District to learn how to make your Global Entrepreneurship Week – Kansas City session one that entrepreneurs will love to attend. Event submissions are due 11:59 p.m. Aug. 28.
 

Inflation Strategies for Businesses in the Short and Long Term

1 - 2 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 25
Online Event
 
The Kansas City Business Journal is hosting a discussion focusing on how executives can address the challenges of rising wages and prices in their operations and ways businesses can improve productivity, cut costs and continue retaining and attracting talent.
 

LaunchU Orientation

6 - 7 p.m. Monday, Aug. 29
Online Event
 
Develop a startup plan with the Women’s Business Center through an eight-week educational series designed to help entrepreneurs start and grow businesses, even with little or no business background.
 

Su Plan de Acción: Pasos Esenciales para Iniciar un Negocio

Mid-Continent Public Library - Woodneath Library Center at 8900 NE Flintlock Road, Kansas City, Missouri
 
El Centro, The Toolbox KC y Mid-Continent Public Library estarán presentado un seminario de 5 partes guía para empezar con éxito tu negocio.
  1. Semana 1: Visualice sus oportunidades: 5:30 - 8 p.m. Martes, Aug. 30 
  2. Semana 2: Conozca a sus clientes: 5:30 - 8 p.m. Martes, Sept. 6
  3. Semana 3: Analice el mercado y la competencia: 5:30 - 8 p.m. Martes, Sept. 13
  4. Semana 4: Desarrollo de un plan de marketing básico: 5:30 - 8 p.m. Martes, Sept. 20
  5. Semana 5: Analice el área financiera y vea el flujo de dinero: 5:30 - 8 p.m. Martes, Sept. 27

The Startup Workshop: The Essential Steps to Launching Your Business in KCK

3 - 4 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 6 
The Toolbox: Small Business Resource Center, 303 Central Ave., Kansas City, Missouri
 
The Toolbox KC will explain step by step how to get from concept to launch in Kansas City, Kansas, legal structures for forming a business, how to register your business entity, tax responsibilities of small businesses as well as common pitfalls small businesses encounter and how to avoid them.
 

ELEVATIONLAB

UMKC Innovation Center, 4747 Troost Ave., Kansas City, Missouri

Missouri Small Business Development Center has two opportunities to hop into the ELEVATIONLAB programming, which will help you develop a realistic perspective on what it takes to start your new business or technology.

1. ELEVATIONLAB™ New Venture
9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 6

Ready to own your own business? Will people buy what you want to sell? Explore the feasibility of your new venture and learn how to develop a viable business in this five-session course. Applications due Aug. 30.

2. ELEVATIONLAB™ Tech Venture
3 - 6 pm. Thursday, Sept. 22

Designed specifically by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs, this program is an intensive nine-session course designed to give technology- and science-based founders a proven framework and network of connections to help grow a great idea into the next viable innovation. Applications due Sept. 15.
 

Simple Steps for Starting your Business - Basics

9:30 a.m. - noon Saturday, Sept. 17
UMKC Innovation Center, 4747 Troost Ave., Kansas City, Missouri
 
This in-person workshop from SCORE-Kansas City provides skills and tools you need when starting a business.
 

Business Basics in a Day: How to Start a Business

8 a.m. - 4 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 12
12345 College Blvd., Overland Park, Kansas

Learn the fundamentals of what it takes to get your business started and apply for a business loan, including determining the feasibility of your business, creating a lean canvas plan, choosing a legal entity, forming financial projections, developing a marketing plan, tackling bookkeeping and much more! Lunch is provided.



Yours in entrepreneurship,

Chanté Keller
Network Convener, KCSourceLink
 
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