Business Plan Workshop

If you're an emerging creative entrepreneur with a young business or a great idea, but no clue how to make it happen, this is the course for you. Business Plan Workshop is a six-week, hands-on course that will take you through the nuts and bolts of the complete business planning process. Ultimately, you will leave the last class with a cogent business plan in hand and a plan of action for launching (or growing) your business.

This workshop will guide you through the process of analyzing your market, evaluating the risks and opportunities associated with your business idea, developing financial projections and creating an operating plan. This course will focus both on the process of creating a plan and putting that plan into action, with an emphasis on the use of concrete tools and resources. Wonder if you even need to write a business plan? You do. A business plan can help you to secure funding, save money and, most importantly, develop a road map for navigating your creative industry.

To get the most out of the experience, you should come prepared with an idea for a business or a desire to apply planning to an existing business. A typical class session will include lectures interspersed with hands-on workshops and individual assistance. At the close of the course, there will be an opportunity to present your business idea to the class. Please bring your own laptop or a notepad.

Instructors

Robert K. Gardner has been an incubator of technology enterprises and a leader in “strategic” technology development since 1970. He also helped in the formation and governance of several New York based arts enterprises, including The Brick Theater and In The Pocket NYC, LLC. As founder of New World Technology Partners, he managed & participated in the launch of several development stage companies formed around certain government sponsored “strategic technologies”, including August Systems, Verdix, Meiko Scientific, Cryptek, Phoenix Numeric and Probity Labs. He led Computer Sciences Corporation’s development of the iRISK™ cyber-financial risk management methodology. He also led turnarounds of public companies, including General Kinetics and Verdix Corp. As a mid-cap DoD service provider, he created an intellectual property incubator which introduced Trusted TeamWorks™ and other innovations. Gardner was also responsible for financing and spinout for startup and turnaround clients, having coordinated several private placements for that purpose. Prior to forming NWTP, he held senior engineering and technical marketing positions for ILLIAC IV, PEPE, LDSP and NASF supercomputer projects at Burroughs Corporation. He has a BSEE from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and studied graduate system engineering and business administration at Penn State and the University of Santa Clara respectively.

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