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Monthly Start Up Lab

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Are you getting ready to launch a new business venture? Are you feeling overwhelmed or confused about your next step?

Join us for our Monthly Start Up Lab where you can receive mentorship and support from our small business experts. Get answers to your business questions and receive accountability support to help you continue making progress towards your start-up goals. Our consultants will assist you in creating a plan for your next steps and creating a path forward to guide you to success.

Topics Covered Include:

Business plan
Business model
Financial projections
Funding options
Startup capital
Startup costs
Legal entity
Licensing and permitting

When: 2nd Monday of each month at 11:30 am

Where: Zoom

Cost: FREE

Meet Your Business Experts:

Nina Natina, Business Development Consultant & Loan Specialist

With over 15 years of experience in business planning and development, and a business owner herself, Nina shares her extensive knowledge to guide entrepreneurs and business owners through the process of planning, starting, and expanding their business visions. Based in Redding, Nina provides our clients with access to a wide network of funding resources and assists clients in producing formal business plans and financial projections for loan and grant applications. Nina obtained her Master’s Degree from the School of Global Policy & Strategy at UC San Diego.

Tola Levinson
Business Development-Startup and Asset Building Specialist
Tola Levison has developed and managed welfare to work programs utilizing self-employment as a welfare to work strategy. Her innovative approaches to outreach and retention of the poorest of the poor have received the recognition of the FIELD /Aspen Institute. The MS Foundation, and CFESS (Californians for Economic Self-Sufficiency) Ms. Levison has served as a resource person for CAMEO (California Association for Microenterprise Opportunity)

Ms. Levison utilizes her own personal experience of having escaped poverty and years of welfare dependency to develop and manage programs for very low income, welfare to work and persons with disabilities.

Tola has recently moved to Shasta County and is looking forward to working with our north state startup businesses to grow and prosper.