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Friday, February 01, 2008
Entrepreneurship: Trials and Tribulations

Being an entrepreneur and running a small business in not easy.  The largest complaint voiced by entrepreneurs is how challenging it is to find support and the difficulty in being able to share frustrations with family and friends who are not entrepreneurs and are not able to relate. 

While organizations such as the WBCC develop programs and services to help overcome existing obstacles, programs can only go so far, the rest is left up to the ingenuity and creativity of the entrepreneur.  

In this roundtable discussion, participants will discuss challenges and obstacles and share strategies with one another in overcoming those challenges and obstacles.  This is a supportive, non-competitive environment in which participants can openly share problems as well as solutions and peer mentor one another.  Learn from both the failures and successes of others, and share your failures and successes as well. 

During this two hour discussion, participants will:

• Share experiences

• Share strategies for overcoming obstacles

• Learn from one another

• Develop a support network

Methods:

• Participants can submit topic items in advance

• Moderator will introduce topic items and timed discussion will take place

• Participants will all have an opportunity to speak

• No presentations -- all interactive collaboration

Schedule/Format:

11:30    Registration - Informal Networking - Lunch Served (sandwiches and snacks)
11:45    Introduction by Moderator, Michelle Butler, WBCC
11:50    Individual Participant Introductions
12:10    Discussion items proposed by participants introduced and topics discussed
  1:15    Comments, Questions, Discussion, Wrap-Up

Location:        Offices of Jobing.com:  2878 Camino Del Rio South, Suite 410, San Diego, CA 92108

Registration:   Must pre-register and pre-pay by Thursday, January 31, 2008, by 12 noon   
                               * Registrations are non-refundable for those who cannot attend
                               * Cancellations prior to 12 noon on Thursday are non-refundable but are transferrable to another person or for
                                  another WBCC event
                               * After 12 noon on Thursday payments are non-refundable and non-transferrable
 

$25 Includes Lunch + Seminar

$20 Discount Rate for 2007 Expo Participants Only

* Payments via PayPal links above are available to those with or without a PayPal Account and is the preferred payment & registration method of the WBCC

* Call 619-921-6881 or email mbutler@wbcc-sd.org for alternative payment arrangements if necessary