- Building Your Entrepreneurial Venture from the Ground Up is a self‐directed course designed for individuals interested in developing a new business.
Lessons provide an overview of business ideas identification, of start up business models development, of value proposition and competitive advantage identification, and of other start up issues. Participants will investigate the entrepreneur development process, focusing on elements of business planning as they progress through lessons. This course provides the basic topics that entrepreneurs with emerging companies should be able to translate directly to their specific business ideas. It is a good review for entrepreneurs with existing businesses prior to tackling the course for companies with growth potential.
For more information contact Greg Clary with Texas AgriLife Extension. - Developing Diversified and Value-Added (DVA) Agribusiness provides two courses designed for individuals interested in developing new or growing existing DVA agribusinesses.
The first course provides resources for entrepreneurs with startup and early stage businesses. You will find an overview of generating and evaluating business ideas, of business model development, of value proposition and competitive advantage identification, and of other start up issues. Participants will investigate the entrepreneur development process, focusing on elements of business planning. This course includes basic topics that entrepreneurs with emerging companies should be able to translate directly to their efforts to transform their specific ideas into businesses. It is a good review for entrepreneurs with existing businesses prior to tackling the course for companies with growth potential.
The second course aimed at existing businesses is designed for entrepreneurs facing the challenges of business growth, business planning for growth, capitalizing growth, cash flow management, dealing with contingencies and developing harvest strategies.
You are welcome to go through these courses at your own speed or pick selected topics that are of most use to you at the present time and come back to others later on. There is no time limit to complete the course...it is posted for your use. All you have to do is register and establish an eXtension account so you can login as a student.
This curriculum was made possible by a grant from the Agricultural Marketing Resource Center. For more information contact Greg Clary with Texas AgriLife Extension. - Entrepreneurship has gained renewed respect as an economic development strategy. If communities are going to successfully develop their local economies by supporting start up and growing businesses in their region, they must work together as a community to develop systems providing the support that local entrepreneurs need. Leadership teams must work together to insure their communities possess characteristics found in entrepreneurial supportive communities. TCRE has developed criteria for an Entrepreneur Ready Community Certification Programto guide communities' efforts to build the capacity to support entrepreneurs.
Lessons provide some of the skills and knowledge needed to formulate local strategies for entrepreneur support. There are examples of best practices, of a variety of programs and of rural communities that have successfully developed entrepreneur support systems. Specialists with TCRE and Texas AgriLife Extension Service stand ready to assist with educational programs and technical assistance that will help your community become Entrepreneur Ready.
For more information contact Greg Clary with Texas AgriLife Extension. - The goal of this course is to address the most important questions and issues to consider when evaluating a potential nature tourism enterprise or expanding operations. The step by step course utilizes, text, videos, worksheets and quizzes to help landowners & other entrepreneurs learn how to get started, select an enterprise and develop a product, create a financial plan, & develop a marketing plan. By completing this course you will have a written business plan, including basic financial statements.
To register and get the enrollment key for this course go to: http://agrilifevents.tamu.edu/events/onlineCourse.cfm . Look for the "Online Courses" titled Nature Tourism: Business Plan Development.
Subject Matter Specialist: Miles PhillipsCourse Designer & Developer: Susanna Coppernoll
- Taking Your Entrepreneurial Venture to the Next Level is designed for entrepreneurs facing the challenges of business growth, business planning for growth, capitalizing growth, cash flow management, dealing with contingencies and developing harvest strategies. You are welcome to go through the course at your own speed or pick selected topics that are of most use to you at the present time and come back to others later on. There is no time limit to complete the course...it is posted for your use.
For more information contact Greg Clary with Texas AgriLife Extension. - Tarrant County Life Coach Training is a self directed course that incldes four modules that provide an overview and introduction to Tarrant County Life Coaching along with background knowledge and considerations on a variety of topics associated with the responsibilities and functions of a life coach.
For more information contact: Angel Ilarraza with Texas AgriLife Extension Tarrant County at adilarraza@tarrantcounty.com
