FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
January 31, 2005
For more information contact:

Bob Bolton, 307.721.2388

Business plan workshop to be held on Feb. 17

LARAMIE – Learn how to develop a business plan that will attract investors at a Venture West workshop in Laramie on Feb. 17.

The workshop, “Killer Business Plans – It’s Your First Impression, Knock’em Dead”, will be held in the Medicine Bow Conference Room at the Beta House in Laramie from 2 PM – 5 PM on Feb. 17. The cost is $10 for Venture West members and students and $20 for non-members.

“A strong business plan can attract investment necessary to grow a business, but a weak one will turn off investors,” said Brian Knit, one of the workshop speakers and a partner at the Cheyenne Capital Fund.

Mark Soane will also speak at the workshop. He is the managing director of the Appian Venture Partners and chairman of the Colorado Venture Capital Association.

Venture West supports a diversified Wyoming economy through entrepreneurship, by providing networking and educational opportunities that create and foster a climate that enables entrepreneurship to thrive. Small business proponents created the group in 2000. For more information, visit www.venturewest.org.

The mission of the Wyoming Business Council is to facilitate the economic growth of Wyoming. For more information, please visit the Web site at www.wyomingbusiness.org.

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