Startup:
Building Your First Business

The Business Model Canvas is a helpful tool startups use to better understand their business. In this seminar, you’ll learn how to sketch out your business idea using this one page document. This will help you ask and answer important questions about your business model and what you will need to get it off the ground. We will use the Business Model Canvas to ideate, describe, discuss and evaluate a business model.

This seminar will be taught by Hope Ross Gibaldi, Executive Director of Valley Venture Mentors (VVM) - a non-profit organization based in Springfield, MA that helps entrepreneurs start and scale successful ventures through entrepreneurial education, mentoring and networking opportunities. She also serves as the co-founder and CEO of LEARN IN MOTION, a youth recreational program that offers movement-, sports- and play-based enrichment programs for preschoolers and elementary school students. Hope is also the founder of Entrepreneurial Spirit -a firm that works with entrepreneurs to develop and improve programs that support small business owners.