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The UCF Technology Incubator and UCF College of Business Administration
announce the next offering of the

"Excellence in Entrepreneurship Certificate Course"

This dynamic, intense short course explores the realities of planning and starting a company and helps you learn how to successfully develop and launch a business.

Taught by experienced entrepreneurs, professional service providers and entrepreneurship faculty from the University of Central Florida, the course will help you clarify your business concept and walk you through the steps of planning and starting a business. The course will introduce you to resources and advisors that provide invaluable support in laying the foundation for a successful company. Below are comments from some of the participants in our last class:

"This course has brought an enormous amount of pertinent information to my attention."

"It has helped me make my business plan more presentable and improved my presentation skills."

"I'm much more focused now in my business idea and more confident."

The course fee is $395 for the first participant from a company and $195 for each additional participant from the same company. A registration form for the class is attached.  Please complete and return it to the UCF Technology Incubator no later than February 17.  We strongly suggest that all individuals involved in management of the company participate together in the course. 

ENROLLMENT IS LIMITED TO THE FIRST 20 REGISTRATIONS. 

If you have applied to or expressed interest in being considered for acceptance to the Incubator, this course is a required element of the application process.

Registration Form (PDF)

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Class Schedule*

February 21, 2005
Session 1 - Developing Successful Business Ideas
Is your business concept an idea or truly an opportunity? Learn how to tell the difference. Learn how to analyze the opportunity to develop an effective business model.

February 23, 2005
Session 2 - Building a Strong Business Team
The product or service you will offer is important. Even more important is the team you build - management, employees, Board, investors, service providers. Learn how to build the best team possible to drive the success of your new venture.

February 28, 2005
Session 3 - Proper Legal and Ethical Foundations
Many decisions are involved in establishing a new venture. Learn what the legal options are. Explore how to establish high standards of business ethics.

March 2, 2005
Session 4 - Marketing Strategies and Effective Sales
No matter how beneficial your product or service is, if you don't know who the customer is and tell the message in an effective way to get their attention, you won't have sales.

March 7, 2005
Session 5 - Funding and Finances
You've analyzed the opportunity and begun to build a team to drive success. You've written a great business plan. How do you secure the financial resources to make it all happen?

March 14, 2005
Session 6 - Entrepreneurial Insights
A panel of experienced entrepreneurs will share their insights "from the trenches". What have they learned? What would they do differently? What is their advice to you?

March 16, 2005
Session 7 - Business Presentations
You will have the opportunity to make a presentation to a group of experienced entrepreneurs and get feedback about your business, market and financial opportunities.

*The actual order of the sessions may vary depending on availability of our guest instructors.