Entrepreneurship

Start Your Own Business is a 60- hour virtual training program to help young entrepreneurs develop and implement their business plans. Each 45-hour "Start Your Own Business" program provides the confidence that comes from thinking through key factors to ensure business growth and long-term success. Participants also receive 15 hours of individualized support and dedicated one-on-one coaching. The program connects participants to a network of entrepreneurs, business leaders, and experts motivated to help them succeed.

"Start Your Own Business" is a 60- hour virtual training program to help young entrepreneurs develop and implement their business plans. Each 45-hour "Start Your Own Business" program provides the confidence that comes from thinking through key factors to ensure business growth and long-term success. Participants also receive 15 hours of individualized support and dedicated one-on-one coaching. The program connects participants to a network of entrepreneurs, business leaders, and experts motivated to help them succeed.

By the end of the course, participants will understand and be able to apply the core concepts of Entrepreneurship. The trainees will understand entrepreneurship as a potential career option, highlighting the local context and introducing international examples. Identifying and formulating the most essential skills entrepreneurs need to start and develop their own business.

The training includes:

The program provides specialized training programs to include workshops focusing on the entrepreneurship environment, feasibility studies, persuasion skills, presenting ideas, and others. At the end of the program, each participant presents a plan to be evaluated by the project’s panel and up to five women will be selected to receive funds for their plans.

Project Outcomes

Who should attend?

Entrepreneurs with a business idea that they would like to present in a competition, to investors, or in a certain program.

Workshop Learning Outcomes

At the end of this workshop, trainees will learn:

Who should attend?

Anyone interested in becoming an entrepreneur, anyone who wants to become better at creating business ideas or veteran entrepreneurs who want to master the skill of idea generation.

Amideast has partnered with the Inventionland Institute (ILI) to support innovation and economic growth opportunities for youth and young innovators across the MENA region.

Many of us flinch when we hear terms like depreciation, cash flow, balance sheet, assets, liabilities, and Income Statement. However, these are all important concepts to understand if you’re going to succeed in today’s business world, particularly as an entrepreneur. Even better, financial terms are not as scary as they seem!

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

Entrepreneurs, Directors, Managers, Supervisors, or anyone who uses financial information in the course of their work. Prior knowledge of accounting/finance is not required.

This round of YEP is part of Citi Foundation's Pathways to Progress global approach to prepare urban youth to thrive in today's economy by developing economic opportunities for youth through activities such as entrepreneurship, education, engagement in the formal economy through first jobs, and the acquisition of leadership, financial, and workplace skills.

This workshop is customized to empower people who want to launch a new business or who are already operating one in the MENA region. Successful business ownership needs more than a great idea, product or service. Business success also needs an entrepreneurial mindset, understanding strategic and business planning, finance and accounting, legal requirements, management, sales and marketing, as well as key success factors and avoidable mistakes.