07/ 16/ 2007
SBA and Trump University launch innovative online training course for entrepreneurs
When you think of the name "Trump," you probably think of bad hair, a personal helicopter or playing cards in Vegas. But you might also think of apprenticeship, entrepreneurship and hiring the best.
That's why the U.S. Small Business Administration and Trump University have teamed together to create a free online training course titled "How to Start a Business on a Shoestring Budget." It was designed to help entrepreneurs understand how to turn their small-business ideas into reality, despite limited outside resources.
"How to Start a Business on a Shoestring Budget" is a self-paced course available through the SBA's Small Business Training Network. It is a creative training experience and interactive assessment tool that features fictional entrepreneurs who are engaged in raising money for their small businesses. Student entrepreneurs who participate in the course provide advice to fictional entrepreneurs on how to evaluate readiness for starting a business. An added highlight is the availability of "Ask the experts" video clips strategically featured throughout the course.
"We are pleased to work with an experienced leader in online education," says SBA Administrator Steven Preston. "The cosponsorship with Trump University is an inventive partnership that provides the best in small-business resources to students of entrepreneurship, while offering a unique opportunity to learn about one of the most challenging areas of starting a small business—business financing."
The course helps to evaluate eight key areas of business start-up on a shoestring, including what it takes to make something out of nothing, market research for the budget-minded, budget branding and what to do when you outgrow your bootstraps.
About the SBA
The U.S. Small Business Administration is the nation's largest financial backer of small businesses. The SBA's programs and services help business owners start, run and grow their businesses and provide a range of financial, technical, and management assistance. The SBA also plays a major role in the government's disaster relief efforts by making low-interest recovery loans to both homeowners and businesses. America's 25 million small businesses employ more than 50 percent of the private workforce, generate more than half the nation's gross domestic product and are the principal source of new jobs in the U.S. economy.
About Trump University
Trump University, an online educational institution, has been teaching its thriving community of members everything from real estate investing, marketing, entrepreneurship skills and business planning to management, wealth creation and many other subject matters that appeal to aspiring entrepreneurs and business professionals.
SBA's participation in this cosponsorship does not constitute an express or implied endorsement of the views, opinions, products or services of any cosponsor or other person or entity. All SBA programs, services and cosponsored activities are extended to the public on a nondiscriminatory basis. Cosponsorship Authorization #07-7630-02.
