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Business Builder Workshop: Using ChatGPT in Business

Users have found that ChatGPT's uses go beyond simple back-and-forth conversations. It can generate a variety of different text-based material and provide easy-to-understand, conversational answers to potentially difficult or complex questions. Chat GPT has applicability to problems facing small businesses. This session will cover how ChatGPT can be implemented in a variety of ways.
• Understanding ChatGPT
• Applications for Small Businesses
• Options for Implementing ChatGPT
• Q&A & Additional Resources

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Grow with Google: Design Thinking for Entrepreneurs

Design Thinking is a methodology used by designers to solve
complex problems. It can be applied by entrepreneurs and small
business owners to help with things like creating a company,
inventing a product, redesigning a website, and more.

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Discover how to create a collaborative environment where everyone is responsible for design. You will go through design challenges and sprints that can be incorporated into any workplace or startup, to unlock creativity and innovative thinking.
In this session we’ll introduce:

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EcoBeachie

Designed the first ever Beach Sled (and other fun, innovative, and affordable) products that all contain upcycled ocean plastic, thus helping to clean up our planet/oceans of plastic waste.

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SCORE Helps Film Producer Bring Business into Focus

SCORE gave me the confidence to make the jump to being a business owner from employee. Since I am a big believer in preparation, I wanted to make sure I was ready and had my questions answered before leaving my job to go out on my own. And my business is going well. I had set a goal of recruiting five clients -- outside of my contract work with my former employer -- by year's end and I met that goal.

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InfraLytiks

Akash Vidyadharan co-founded InfraLytiks in Des Moines, Iowa, in 2017 with fellow Iowa State University engineering graduate Tyler Carter. InfraLytiks uses machine learning to describe and analyze what’s in images, including drone video, satellite photos, and 3-D laser scans. For instance, the software took less than an hour to analyze more than 100,000 acres for a wind farm developer who needed to place turbines away from trees, buildings, and roads. Early customers were insurance and engineering firms, but the founders believed their technology had national security uses too. InfraLytiks

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Sort & Sell

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How to Hire Employees in Michigan

Are you looking to hire your first employee in SE Michigan?

The Michigan SBDC has provided a wonderful article for guidance and understanding on how to hire and manage employees. If you are looking for further information contact SCORE SE Michigan for a Mentor!

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Business Model Canvas

If you are still at the idea stage for your future business, you might consider using the Business Model Canvas as an easier way to get started before you write a Business Plan.

The Business Model Canvas is a one-page graphical way to get necessary elements of a successful business down on paper that you might find very useful.

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Business Builders Workshop: A Quick-Start Guide to Marketing your Business

Running a business can be overwhelming, but knowing where to focus your marketing efforts is the key! This session will answer your pressing questions like: What's the right way to kickstart my marketing? How much should I invest in getting it off the ground? And most importantly - how do I keep the momentum going long-term in a sustainable way?

Presenter: Jade Scherr, owner of HexaHive

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Guide to SBA Resources

This SBA Guide is a tool that will help you learn about the SE Michigan Small Business Association (SBA) and how it can help provide financing capital for your business

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