Quick-Start Shoreline fall season starts Tuesday

Join the business community at Quick-Start “Working Session” on Tuesday, October 6, 2015 from 12:00 to 1:30pm at Shoreline City Hall, 17500 Midvale Ave N for the kickoff of Fall 2015.

Quick-Start Shoreline is presented by Shoreline Community College Small Business Accelerator and the City of Shoreline. These workshops are designed to be helpful for start-up, existing or potential business owners. Sessions are free and open to the public. Feel free to bring a brown bag lunch.

Quick-Start Shoreline Working Session: Lean Canvas

Learn how to fast track your next BIG idea using the versatile  Business Model Canvas™ in this hands-on QuickStart Working Session.  The Business Model Canvas™ is a tool that helps you put your key business relationships on paper in a visual, meaningful, and compelling way. Lean Canvas is both an ideation tool useful for team brainstorming and a planning tool for both entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs. 

Learn to incorporate the components of the Canvas into planning and designing your next event, initiative, program, product launch, even new business idea. The Lean Canvas working session will help you:

1. Present new company initiatives to leadership with confidence. 

2. Gain team consensus faster using a visual tool where everyone’s contributions are considered.

3. Expand your reach and grow your business by uncovering new opportunities: new partnerships, new customers, and strategic distribution channels.

4. Launch new programs, product lines, and expansion plans knowing its potential return on investment and costs -- before making the leap.

Each participant will take home a Business Model Canvas template and a 5 step tool to test the feasibility of your model.

Goal of the Quick-Start Working Sessions

To provide our SCC Business Accelerator Community with access to leading experts and cutting edge business tools that can close the GAP in idea-to-expansion knowledge. These workshops will give start-ups, teams and students a chance to learn practical knowledge, as well as provide hands-on training, and networking opportunities with professionals in various branches of business.

Format of the Quick-Start Working Sessions

Each working session will focus on a single topic. Quick-Start staff and area experts providing key insights and knowledge regarding the topic in a 20 minute lecture format. After the lecture, the attendees will break into working sessions to engage with the topic as it relates to them. We will invite Quick-Start mentors and local entrepreneurs as a resource to the attendees to help answer any questions and think through any problems they may be facing. 

Networking will begin at noon.

Lecture will begin at 12:15pm.

The working sessions will be open from 12:35pm to 1:30pm.