Join us for 2 valuable hours focusing on making your business a viable dream come true: Dive in with Kimberly Collett, Olive, an urban dive: Creating your business and financial plan. This class is for folks that have done their homework, flushed out their ideas, and are ready to put it on paper. It’s time to get serious about your business idea! Real regional insight, valuable tools and templates, a chance to ask questions and an opportunity for follow-up on your progress 6-8 weeks later. Ready to take the plunge into your first venture? Find out what it really takes. Get started on a solid foundation with the help of Kimberly Collett, entrepreneur and restaurateur, who will show you how to create a business plan and a detailed three year financial plan. Bring your laptop (if possible) and current plan if you have one, or any figures you’ve pulled together so far. Kimberly will provide a 3-year financial plan excel template and show you how to tweak it for your own business -a priceless tool that will bring your business plans to a boil! Attendees will be invited to a follow-up class to check progress and get feedback.
Class takeaways:
Realize the truth about planning and what it means in the real world.
Understand why you need a business plan AND a detailed financial plan.
Discuss possible funding for your idea.
Legal name searches and how to claim your domain name.
Customize a catch-all business plan template to your style and your idea.
Create a 3 year financial plan. A deep-dive exercise that shows what you’re in for, including:
Facts about legal licensing and fees.
Laws and taxes you are expected to know (without being told) and will be held accountable for.
The true cost of payroll.
Class includes 30 minutes of question and answer time. Limited Enrollment: 20
About Kimberly Collett:
“All the things I picked up in life came together in one little restaurant.”
Kimberly has a passion for building businesses. In 2011 she opened Olive, an urban dive, then her own construction company, Dayton Tradesource, and most recently broke ground on a collaboration project, The Barrel House. Olive is a locally sourced, Mediterranean/American restaurant offering foods inspired by Kimberly’s back-packing travels around Europe after high school (20 some years ago). Collett currently mentors for the Entrepreneurial Capstone Class at The University of Dayton, is a voting member on the Downtown Priority Board, and an Aileron Course for Presidents Alum. Synergy Incubators gives Kimberly an avenue to reach a classroom of budding entrepreneurs interested in learning how to turn ideas into brick-and-mortar businesses.
