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 legal.

**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.
* Legal: 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 and co-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 Federation CJA, an early-stage
VC fund and entrepreneurship program 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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