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Cash is king! Managing your cash flow – revenue and expenses – is a critical issue for all business owners. Poorly managed cash flow is a primary reason for business failure. You worked hard to get the sale. Don’t let the profits slip away. Join your fellow entrepreneurs to discuss how to make your cash work for you.

Tom Drouin, Certified Small Business Mentor with SCORE Fox Valley facilitates

Meeting Room H, 2nd Floor.

Registration required.

Please note: The original topic for this Roundtable was changed to the above.

“Entrepreneur” is such a buzzword, but there is a deeper meaning. Beginning with its definition, Peter James, Entrepreneur and Asst. Professor, Business/Management/Marketing at College of DuPage, will tap into why every business owner needs to embrace this term. You will walk away from this workshop with a template on how to face each day, individual, and business opportunity.

Meeting Room H, 2nd Floor.

Registration required.

Business and Career coach Vickie Austin highlights new and classic business books for busy executives, employees, and entrepreneurs. Don’t worry if you haven’t read the book!

This month's title: Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t by Simon Sinek

Starting a business can be a daunting and challenging endeavor. Entrepreneur and SCORE mentor Mike Ronchetti will share tips on how to gather information, ask the right questions, make good decisions, and stay the course; while identifying problems, avoiding money traps and emotional tragedies that start-ups often experience.

Meeting Room A, Lower Level.

Registration required.

Come and discuss with your fellow business entrepreneurs the ways in which you define and create value that your customers care about and that helps beat your competition! Engage in a lively conversation about creating value and earning great customers.

Facilitated by Tom Drouin, a Certified Small Business Mentor from SCORE

Meeting Room H, 2nd Floor

Registration required

This workshop is for those who are thinking about starting a new business, in the process, or already in business. With over 40 years of accounting and financial experience, CPA John Galati will discuss all of the financial matters associated with starting, operating, and maintaining a business.

Meeting Room A, Lower Level.

Registration required.

The Business Resource Center and Wheaton Chamber of Commerce host an informal forum (every 3rd Tuesday of the month) where business owners, nonprofits, and entrepreneurs can meet to network, ask questions, share experience, triumphs, tragedies, tips, and tricks of the trade.

Meeting Room H, 2nd Floor. Hot coffee and light refreshments.

Limited to 25 participants. Registration required.