What's Next Workshop

1. You want to move forward. Now what? Attend the "What's Next" Workshop to learn more about what your next steps should be as an innovator and entrepreneur. You'll also learn how the Idea Center can help you advance your idea!
   
   

2. How the IDEA Center at MCC can support you:  

• Share and support you in your next steps in your entrepreneurial journey 

• Academic Goal Mapping - we can help you figure out what entrepreneurship and/or business classes will help you advance your idea, sign up for a meeting with Professor Hargis HERE 

• Offer a small seed grant for validating idea and doing MVP (minimum viable product) work 

  • • Learn more HERE

• Share business resources that could benefit you. 

  • • Business Resources on the IDEA Center webpage 

    • More Business Resources (some may be duplicates) 

• Connect you to relevant Community Resources such as: 

• Community Teamwork’s Entrepreneurship Center for local workshops and one-on-one counseling and coaching

• Mentoring with a local SCORE chapter

• Mentoring with Entrepreneurs in Residence at MCC
  
  

3.  If you won at the Launch at MCC Pitch Contest 

• At the workshop, you'll learn more about the following processes to gain your seed money: 

  • • • • Use of Funds 

        • Seed Funding Agreement 

        • Upload Receipts for Use of Funds 
          
          

4. Additional Resources from Workshop 

• Copy of Slide Show

• SMART Goals - develop your own SMART based goals (specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and time-bound) to help guide you through your process; this will help make very specific goals that are more likely to be reached 

• Gantt Chart - stay organized with the never-ending list of things that need to be done. There is something about capturing what needs to be and then knowing a time frame for when it has to be done that helps clear up, destress, and make yourself more available to focus on what you love 

  • • • Make a copy for yourself, then edit as needed 

• Healthy Business Checklist - use this to help you make sure you take all the necessary legal, state, local, and basic steps to launch a business 

  • • • The default city is Lowell, you should contact your town/city for specifics 

• Core Values Exercise (Sample) - Review the sample to get a better idea of what core values look like

  • • • Core Values Exercise (Blank) - Use this template to write your own core values.

• Business Model Canvas