The ABCs of Starting a Business

**ProMontreal Entrepreneurs** and **PME MTL **present _ The ABCs of
Starting a Business_ workshop. This workshop will provide participants with a
baseline information on things to consider and know when starting a business.
This workshop will cover the business plan, financials and business law.

**This workshop will cover:**

* The Business Plan: How to write a business plan.
* Financing: Baseline information on things to consider and know about financing a business.
* Business Law: The various legalities of starting a business.

**Biography of presenters:**

**Kurt Houghton**

Kurt Houghton holds a Bachelor of Arts with distinction in environmental
studies from McGill University and an executive MBA from Université du Québec
à Montréal with a specialization in collectively owned enterprises. He has
over fifteen years of cooperative and non-profit management and administration
experience and more than five years of entrepreneurial consulting and
coaching.

**Katherine Korakakis**

Katherine Korakakis has spent most of her life working alongside start-ups in
various verticals. For 10 years, she was the National Coordinator of
Entrepreneurship for the Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge for the Government
of Quebec. She has authored guidebooks on entrepreneurship education.
Katherine has served on the boards of numerous corporations and currently is
the Vice-President of PMEMTL Centre-Ouest and President of EPCA. Katherine is
the Manager of Entrepreneurship at ProMontreal Entrepreneurs, an early-stage
VC fund and entrepreneurship program powered by Federation CJA that invests in
multiple verticals. The fund has a social business model and has been around
for over 22 years.

_* Workshops will be held in English, with questions & answers in English and
French._

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