Business Resources

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Design Your Logo & Business Cards

Design Your Logo & Business Cards

Need help creating and designing your perfect logo? This hands-on workshop is perfect for learning some Canva graphic design basics to make your beautiful logo and turn it into a tangible business card to hand out!

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Zoom Meetup: Finding Your Customers

Zoom Meetup: Finding Your Customers

Now that you know WHO your customer is, it is time to discover WHERE to find them!

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Zoom Meetup: Know + Evaluate Your Competition

Zoom Meetup: Know + Evaluate Your Competition

Think your product or service is so amazing that you won't have to worry about competitors? Think again. Everyone in every market has to deal with competition, and that's okay! It is what drives lower prices and better quality.

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Zoom Meetup: Your Business Idea!

Zoom Meetup: Your Business Idea!

Join your community of entrepreneurs and an experienced business advisor to vet and discuss your business idea! This meeting will follow Learning Module 1 of the Roadmap: Decide on a Business Idea to make sure your idea will succeed in the market.

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StartItUp Is On a Mission to Save Small Businesses with On-Demand Business Resources

StartItUp Is On a Mission to Save Small Businesses with On-Demand Business Resources

Business owners who use the StartItUp app are connected to an advisor via an algorithm that takes industry, personality, skills, location, project need, and other specifics into account. They are led through an intuitive series of questions that helps them create a business plan and addresses potential problems or gaps in knowledge. A paper trail is created. An AI-driven chat bot will be available to immediately answer questions. 

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Jumpstart Your E-Commerce Business

Jumpstart Your E-Commerce Business

It can be an overwhelming decision to finally dip your toe into the sea of online entrepreneurship. Fortunately, the immediate gratification of the internet and social media marketing has made it an even playing field for everyone to succeed in their own corner of the market. If you are consistent, you will win.

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What is StartitUp?

What is StartitUp?

The team at StartItUp has put in thousands of hours of research (with the best and brightest minds at Stanford among others) and developed a simple roadmap to help you start your business. Whether you are starting an online clothing store, a restaurant, food truck, candle shop, or are still in the process of planning your business idea, you have come to the right place.

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Starting An Online Business

Starting An Online Business

So you have decided that you want to start an online business. Maybe it’s selling your handmade candles, starting an etsy shop with greeting cards, launching an online clothing boutique, or maybe you want to become a virtual self help coach. According to the US Census, online retailing is one of the fastest growing industries in the world.

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Top Five Take-aways From 30 Years of Experience Building Start-ups!

Top Five Take-aways From 30 Years of Experience Building Start-ups!

Nobody can really train you or educate you fully to prepare you for what is involved in starting a business. Most of what I have learned over the years comes from the experience I’ve had starting over 7-8 separate companies and helping launch twenty plus other businesses. To be very honest, I’m still learning! That said, I want to share some of the most important truths that I’ve come to learn. 

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