Invited to participate in entrepreneurship training courses in Daugavpils

Swedish Embassy in Latvia, Riga Economics School – Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, TeliaSonera and CONNECT Latvia are invited to participate in the business training course that will take place in Daugavpils, spring 2015.
The purpose of the course of business training is to provide participants with the necessary information, tools and encouragement to start their business. The long-term objective is to strengthen the entrepreneurial culture in Daugavpils and Latgale, involving participants in informal business networks, developing Daugavpils business centres, as well as promoting the development and operation of business incubators.
The course is planned more practical than theoretical, although the theory is also important. The purpose of the course is to provide participants with the necessary information, inspiration, non-formal knowledge and networking (contact) opportunities to start their business.
New-baked the entrepreneur's first business will be defeated, although some will be lucky for the first time, but the main thing to start business is to start doing so.
Various business topics will be given by professionals in these areas. Entrepreneurs who will participate in their experience will be invited to individual activities.
The target audience
• Students from various universities and specialities with interest and willingness to start entrepreneurship in the near future;
• anyone who plans to start their business – young people, but not only – also seniori – unless there is motivation and a great desire to change their usual order and start their business;
• Schools of secondary schools, thinking about their future activities, also consider the possibility of creating their business;
• newly emerging entrepreneurs who want to strengthen, gain new knowledge and inspiration;
• and similar people who have already started or want to start their own business, gain practical knowledge and get new encouragement to realize their goals;
Many successful companies have been created in recent years by young people who had the idea and who were willing to change the world by realising their idea. Today's dynamic business environment, where information technologies and social networks have become accessible to everyone, no longer needs to achieve a certain level of qualification to become an entrepreneur. To get started, there is enough idea, courage, and initiative that is a start to do something important.
Lesson Plan: The course consists of 10 activities that will be held in 5 consecutive weeks between 18 March and 16 April, two days a week, in the afternoon from pl. 16.00-19.00.
Number of participants: around 40.
Language: Latvian, some lessons can be in English.
Venue: Daugavpils University, parādes Street 1, Life Sciences and Technology Corps.
Registration: here until March 12. Free of charge.
Organized: Swedish Embassy in Latvia, Riga Economics School – Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, TeliaSonera and CONNECT Latvia
Support: Daugavpils University
The program (Actions each marked day occurs from pl. 16.00 to 19.00)
Insights into topics

① you want to become a businessman?
Relatively little people become entrepreneurs. Why? What does it mean to be a businessman? Decision, surrender, discipline, responsibility, advantages, satisfaction – how does it all relate to business? What is the motivation to start your business? Every person has individual skills and qualities to work effectively in this world. Our task is to help identify and find the use of these skills, perhaps in our business.
② When and how to start, market research, necessary resources
If i've decided to start my business, what are the first steps to get started? What preparations should be made? When, with what idea, how to get together and where to do?
2. WEEK: 24 and 25 March, with EGON LIEPIŅŠ, guest ON ROBEŽNIECE
③ Establishment, legal aspects and documentation, intellectual property
Often new businesses face legal challenges. How do they fight or manage better? Main types of business, company statutes, shares and shareholders, investors, taxes, employees, customers, suppliers, partners and government. Main types of contracts. Correct and organized document management will allow you to spend more time on basic business issues and protect yourself from potent troubleshooting.
④ Business financing and financial management
One of the most important issues is where to get money for business start-ups? How to maintain a company in its first year of operation or until the sales revenue exceeds all expenses? If there is an active businessman near us and farther in the world, that means that they have somehow solved this question! Let's look at typical new business financing models. But in addition to the importance of obtaining funding, it is not less important that you manage it.
3. WEEK: 30 and 31 March, ALAN BARREL, guest JAN STORGÅRDS
⑤ how to convert ideas into business opportunities, work on business model
You can have wonderful ideas how to make this world better, but how to identify real business opportunities for your ideas and prepare a plan to realize it in life? A businessman has said “the idea is not everything, its realization is all”.
⑥ team creation, team work, and the role of contacts
Business is a form of contact sport. When you start a company, quickly realize the importance of building and maintenance skills, contact networks, a healthy communication environment in a team. What competences, social and technical resources will be required in your team? How do i develop my relationship and communication skills?
4. WEEK: 7 and 8 April, with MATĪSS NEIMANI, ALEXANDER EFREMOV
⑦ product, technology, innovation
When you start offering your product or service market to customers, you will definitely want to offer as good a product as possible and if possible with some kind of innovation. What are the innovations where they arise and can they become part of my business model?
⑧ sales, marketing, brand and reputation
A non-written law is known: most of the technology companies that fail, not because the product is bad, but because they do not begin to sell it in time. When to start selling your product and how to do it?
5. WEEK: 15 and 16 April, with LONG-DISTANCE LEBANON
⑨ Presentation and Types, Presentation Training
Can you tell me about your business in 30 seconds? If you're the manager of a new company, you'll need to learn it, like several other useful forms of business presentation. There are a number of suggestions for how to create and improve your presentation, but the best practice is how to practice it.
⑩ social entrepreneurship, contact networks, future opportunities
[FINAL] – ANDERS PAALZOW
Entrepreneurship and society, socially responsible business. Start, start start, start start,..., growth. “Contact is what makes us a society” said Bill Oterson, the first Director OF CONNECT Sandingo. You may have heard the following: “You don't need to know everything, you just need to know people who know what you need to know.”
Lecturers
(Weeks 1 and 5) TEL LAIZAN
(week 2) EGON LIEPINS
(Week 3) ALAN BARRELL, entrepreneur in Residence, University of Cambridge (U.K.)
(week 4) MATĪSS NEIMANIS
Special guest
(Week 1) FIONN DOBBIN - inspiration and social entrepreneurship
(Week 2) - LIMIT - Document Management
(week 3) JAN STORGÅRDS, IT businessman (Cambridge, United_Kingdom & Finland)
(week 4) ALEXANDER EFREMOV, local businessman, SIA Redius (Rezekne) – management
(week 5) ANDERS PAALZOW, SSE Riga
The registration questionnaire is found here.