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New Iowa Entrepreneurial Experience

The New Iowa Entrepreneurial Leadership Experience is designed to provide individuals exposure to essential business skills, including the ability to develop an entrepreneurial mindset, create a sound business plan, launch their own small businesses, and improve their local communities.

During the ten sessions of the Entrepreneurial Leadership training experience, participants are provided the nuts-and-bolts lessons that are essential for taking a business at any stage to the next level.

At the conclusion of this foundation experience, the participants will be better able to access support and referral networks that direct entrepreneurs to the right local resource (public or private) at the right time.

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Each of the first eight sessions is designed as a stand alone unit. At the same time, the experience as a whole is designed and structured around the National Content Standards for Entrepreneurship Education which includes detail instructional objectives with individual performance indicators for the participants. There are 403 performance indicators in the National Content Standards which allow the New Iowa Entrepreneurial Leadership Experience facilitators and instructors to connect with the broad scope of essentials that practicing entrepreneurs must know and be able to do in order to have success in their business.

Session 1 - What Is Entrepreneurship?
Introducing participants to the course and foundational indicators of entrepreneurial behavior
Session 2 - What It Takes To Be an Entrepreneur
Introducing participants to the personal and work skill characteristics of entrepreneurs
Session 3 - The ABCs of Business Organization
Introducing participants to the advantages and disadvantages of the various legal structures for business organization and operations
Session 4 - Life’s a Pitch—Ideas and Opportunities
Introducing participants to the process of generating ideas, evaluating the opportunities stemming from those ideas and translating that knowledge into a business proposition/business case
Session 5 - Challenges For New Business Owners
Introducing participants to business organization based on the E-Myth Seven Centers of Business Excellence? model for business organization and analysis
Session 6 - Planning Your Business Venture
The participants utilize the knowledge and concepts from Sessions 1-5 to organize all the necessary research surrounding their business concept and begin building the Business Case for their proposal
Session 7 - Building a Business Plan — Answering the Key Questions
Introducing the participants to the structure and essential elements of the business plan and begin the intensive tutoring and mentoring needed to fully develop the business proposition into a comprehensive business plan
Session 8 - Building a Business Plan - Getting Money to Start Your Business
Introducing participants to the variety of business financing mechanisms and financial services (private and public) available to entrepreneurs and small business owners
Session 9 - Guided Work Session  - Fine Tuning Your Business Plan
Intensive session with participant mentors and advisors completing the detailed business plan
Session 10 - Presentation of Business Plan and Award of Certificate
Each participant or team will present their business plan to a panel of judges and awards are presented

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