Entrepreneurship Education Center
Entrepreneurship Education Center Classes
Current Classes Offered In Entrepreneurship & Business
EPS150 - Introduction to Entrepreneurship
Overview of entrepreneurship. Includes the entrepreneurial process and the skills required to be successful, including starting, planning, financing, marketing, and managing a business. Prerequisites: None.
EPS195- Business Start-Up and Planning
Development of a feasibility approach to strategic decision making concerning new venture start-up. Includes development of a business feasibility study and a preliminary business plan. Prerequisites: None.
MGT253 - Owning and Operating a Small Business
Starting, organizing, and operating a small business, including location, finance management processes, advertisement and promotion, credit, inventory control and ethics. Prerequisites: None.
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Want to Start Your Own Business?
Are you wanting to start your own business and don't know where to begin or what factors to consider? The sections marked #1-5 will provide extensive information to help you with this process and provide you with many resources that you would not be able to acquire by strictly looking it up on the internet.
Below are some resources and social media communities that help startups get their feet off the ground!
Startup Help
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Startup Grind is a global startup community designed to educate, inspire, and connect entrepreneurs. Each monthly event, hosted in over 185 cities and 70 countries, features a successful local founder, innovator, educator, or investor who shares their story and the lessons they learned on the road to building a great company. These events provide networking opportunities with amazing startups and local entrepreneurs, and give entrepreneurs inspiration for the startup journey ahead. Google for Entrepreneurs is powering Startup Grind as they grow their reach internationally and using Google tools to connect local chapters. |
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Founded in Phoenix, AZ in 2012, SEED SPOT is a nonprofit organization with a mission to educate, accelerate, and invest in entrepreneurs who are creating solutions to social problems. At SEED SPOT, we fundamentally believe that everyone has a seed of an idea inside of them, but very few have the courage to pursue it. SEED SPOT was named for that reason, as the spot where courage could be found and seeds of ideas could grow into organizations and companies that change the world. |
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The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) was created in 1953 as an independent agency of the federal government to aid, counsel, assist and protect the interests of small business concerns, to preserve free competitive enterprise and to maintain and strengthen the overall economy of our nation. |
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The Arizona Commerce Authority (ACA) is the leading economic development organization with a streamlined mission to grow and strengthen Arizona’s economy. The ACA uses a three-pronged approach to advance the overall economy: recruit, grow, create – recruit out-of-state companies to expand their operations in Arizona; work with existing companies to grow their business in Arizona and beyond; and partner with entrepreneurs and companies large and small to create new jobs and businesses in targeted industries. |
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The City of Phoenix is emerging as a renowned entrepreneur hub with the escalating growth of local Incubators, Accelerators, Coworking and Maker spaces. National attention is focusing on the Phoenix region as a result of several successful startups causing various funding sources to explore the local entrepreneurial ecosystem. |
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#yesphx is not another accelerator, agency, angel group, app, authority, bank, blog, co-working space commercializer, contest, council, firm, fund, incubator, infrastructure, institution, movement, nonprofit platform, program , song, or university. There are already enough of those in town (arguably). We are a growing community committed to improving Arizona’s startup ecosystem by helping each other. |
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Twitter's #startup provides related startup content websites and info! |
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Google helps small business owners succeed on the web by connecting them to experts and each other. |
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Our own Entrepreneurship Education Center (EEC) hosts events all through the fall and spring semesters that help students & community members grow and learn. Follow the EEC on social media to stay up to date! Instagram: @the_eec_at_pvcc Facebook: @eecatpvcc LinkedIn: The Entrepreneurship Education Center @ Paradise Valley Community College Twitter: @eecatpvcc |
