Spring Fast Track to Completing Your Business Plan – Can You Handle It?

Are you a Tortoise or a Hare? You choose!

HARE to the MAX! – Want to enter the BPC and you gaven’t taken the required class? Missed the Winter Boot Camp? Here’s one more possibility. Sign up for the Spring class. When you fill out the on-line BPC application, be sure to provide an HCC Student Number for the team member who will be taking the class.  In the application, apply for an exception to the rule that the class be taken prior to the BPC. Tell us your experience (prior accounting, marketing, finance or business classes, prior experience working in a small business).  The BPC staff will assess each application for approval to enter the competition.

Small Business Management – An Entrepreneurial Approach*

* Enroll in BUSG 2309 to earn college credit and in BUSG 2009 to earn continuing education units.

If you prefer a less stressful pace, Take the Tortoise Approach… Read on….

TORTOISE – Traditional and Steady Wins the Race too! This track builds a strong foundation for the BPC. Take three-courses in sequence: Intro to Entrepreneurship and Economic Development in Spring 2011, an accounting or marketing course in the Summer or Fall and the Small Business Management-An Entrepreneurial Approach course next Fall 2011. Completing these courses earns you a Business Plan Certificate and prepares you for the 2012 Business Plan Competition. This option is solid and steady, ideal if you’re working full time, raising a family and/or taking other courses. It doesn’t feel slow and you’ll make good progress.

For more about the 3-course Business Plan Certificate, the 8-course One-Year Certificate of Entrepreneurship and more on each course, click on the links below.

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