Tasks and resources for class May 12

Hello, everyone! These links will help you see how much you can learn by using the Internet and the library. Please follow up by contacting at least two of these organizations and send me a note about what you learned. We will discuss it in class next Monday night as we practice English.

I have contacted the Latino Chamber of Commerce, the Boulder Chamber of Commerce, and the Boulder/Longmont Small Business Association seeking assistance, including mentors.

At 8:00 pm, Dan Benavidez, a Longmont leader, will join us to talk about his experience in the community as a businessperson and environmental activist. He founded an export-import business and is on the boards of EcoCycle and the Longmont Symphony. His sister is active in Longmont Sister Cities, a nonprofit that brings teens from a Japanese city and a Mexican city to Longmont and takes Longmont teens there to foster intercultural communication. Dan and Lee generously obtained the tickets to the mariachi event this Saturday night that were awarded in class.

Mary

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Boulder business license:
I Googled "Boulder business license" and found this site: www.ci.boulder.co.us/index.php?option=com_content&task=
view&id=3214&Itemid=1494

Colorado state regulations:
You will also find information at www.revenue.state.co.us/main/home.asp.

Have you been to the Boulder Chamber of Commerce office yet on Folsom? It would probably be a good idea for you to look into their business training program (contact Sharon King at sharon@boulderchamber.com), and also stop by and pick up any information they have for those interested in opening a business in Boulder.
www.boulderchamber.com.

You can also find business data at:

www.longmontchamber.org
www.longmontsba.org
www.infolongmont.com/business/bresources.html

You will find contact information for city, state and federal business-related offices at:
www.infolongmont.com/business/bresources.html#Important

Longmont Economic Gardening Initiative: Any business in Longmont is eligible to participate through a combination of peer counseling, access to research data, data analysis, market analysis, plus competitive and industry intelligence. The initial interview, counseling, research data, and data analysis are free. (Keep trying if you don't get a call back.)
www.ci.longmont.co.us/legi/

Here is a list of businesses that are members of the Latino Chamber of Commerce. Call someone who has the kind of business you are interested in and ask them about it. You might find a mentor!
www.latinochamberbc.org/adm/adming/
listamiembros.php

Here are some more sites found by Googling "export import business":

www.importexporthelp.com/
(see links at bottom of page)

www.entrepreneur.com/startingabusiness/businessideas/
startupkits/article41846.html

Export-Import Bank of the U.S.
www.exim.gov/

The Boulder Public Library has books on the subject:
http://nell.boulder.lib.co.us/search/X?SEARCH=export+import+
business&SORT=D&searchscope=11

Find books on starting a business at the Longmont Public Library. You can Google "Longmont Public Library" and search the catalog for "start a business":
http://library.ci.longmont.co.us

The Boulder County Business Report is an excellent source of information, at the library or online:
www.bcbr.com/

Also see the Boulder Economic Council site at www.boulderbusiness.org/

I Googled "popcorn business" and found several sites, including one about a business plan at www.smallbusinesspoint.com/sbppopcorn.aspx

I found an interview about Doc Popcorn at www.newwest.net/topic/article/an_interview_with_a_colorado_
popcorn_maven/C65/L36/

www.docpopcorn.com/ (franchise opportunities available)

I hope this gives you more to move forward. You really contribute a lot to the class.

Thanks!

Mary