The Demystifying Entrepreneurship: Rural Colorado Workshop Series (RCWS) takes a pragmatic approach to entrepreneurship using a highly interactive setting and flexible, scalable sessions. The result: Small businesses, start-ups and local governments in rural Colorado gain the tools they need to solve business and organizational challenges through an entrepreneurial mindset.
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Upcoming Workshops
LAUNCH YOUR IDEA - WEST CENTRAL COLORADO
LOCATION - Business Cultivator, 300 Hap Court, Olathe, Colorado 81425
DATES - Friday, April 28, and Saturday, April 29, 2023
Develop the framework to turn your idea into a business. Learn to create value, avoid common pitfalls and get funding to turn your ideas into reality. In collaboration with Region 10 and the West Central Small Business Development Center, you will learn core elements critical to every successful business venture, regardless of stage, in this certificate course.
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SHORE UP FINALE - NORTHEAST COLORADO
LOCATION - Sterling, Colorado 80751
DATES - Friday, June 2, and Saturday, June 3, 2023
Learn how to amp up creativity, enhance digital tactics, squeeze the most efficiency out of your financial story, stay ahead of the curve in leveraging tech solutions, and much more during our fifth and final Shore Up workshop. In collaboration with the Logan County Economic Development Corporation, you will learn core elements critical to every successful business venture, regardless of stage, in this certificate course.
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NATIVE ENTREPRENEURSHIP - SOUTHWEST COLORADO
LOCATION - Ignacio, Colorado
DATES - Friday, August 11, and Saturday, August 12, 2023
Taught by entrepreneurs and award-winning professors Erick Mueller and Eric Bruno in partnership with the Southern Ute Tribe. This year will be the third year of Native Entrepreneurship with a focus on start up to scale up, a two-day short course designed for second-stage small businesses and organizations, specifically, those looking or needing to shift out of their startup phase and into “what’s next.”
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STARTUP TO SCALEUP - SOUTHEAST COLORADO
LOCATION - Trinidad, Colorado
DATES - Friday, September 22, and Saturday, September 23, 2023
Taught by Erick Mueller & Visda Carson, entrepreneurs and award-winning professors at the Leeds School of Business, the two-day short course is designed for second-stage small businesses and organizations, specifically, those looking or needing to shift out of their startup phase and into “what’s next.”
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SHORE UP FINALE - SOUTHWEST COLORADO
LOCATION - Telluride, Colorado
DATES - Friday, October 6, and Saturday, October 7, 2023
Learn how to amp up creativity, enhance digital tactics, squeeze the most efficiency out of your financial story, stay ahead of the curve in leveraging tech solutions, and much more during our fifth and final Shore Up workshop. In collaboration with the Telluride Venture Network, you will learn core elements critical to every successful business venture, regardless of stage, in this certificate course.
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STARTUP TO SCALEUP - NORTHWEST COLORADO
LOCATION - Yampa Valley, Colorado
DATES - Friday, October 20, and Saturday, October 21, 2023
Taught by entrepreneurs and award-winning professors in collaboration with Northwest Small Business Development Center, this two-day short course is designed for second-stage small businesses and organizations, specifically, those looking or needing to shift out of their startup phase and into “what’s next.”
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Learn About Our Community and Events
Transforming Dreams into Reality: The RCWS Journey in Sterling Colorado
Demystify Entrepreneurship In The First-Ever Rural Colorado Workshop In Montrose
Community Spotlight: Sherri Picciano - Picciano Designs
Alumni Spotlight: Tammie Bowes Delaney - Wild Goose Coffee & The Hayden Granary
Small Business Startup Series Returns to Hayden on October 14 & 15
