'Starting Your Own Business' workshop offered by women's business center Saturday

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SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. - The Inland Empire Women's Business Center at Cal State San Bernardino will hold a workshop on Saturday, Oct. 3, to help people who are considering launching a new business or who already operate their own businesses.

"Successful Start-Ups: The ABCs of Starting Your Own Business" will be an interactive discussion on the role of an entrepreneur and will present the steps to take when starting a business. The workshop will be from 9 a.m. to noon at the center's office, 202 East Airport Drive, Suite 155, in San Bernardino. The workshop is free.

Participants will receive contact information for the myriad of government and business entities that are part of the start-up process. The workshop will also have information about available funding sources for local existing and aspiring small business owners.

The Inland Empire Women's Business Center is a program of the Inland Empire Center for Entrepreneurship at Cal State San Bernardino in partnership with the U.S. Small Business Administration. The IEWBC provides business counseling, training and mentoring designed for women business owners.

The program provides targeted services to Latina business owners - currently the fastest growing group of women-owned businesses in the country - by providing services in English and Spanish.

The Inland Empire Women's Business Center's hours are Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday by appointment only. The center also has a part-time outreach office in Corona, where it meets clients by appointment only on Wednesdays and Thursdays.

For more information, or to register for the workshop, contact Carla Ulloa at (909) 890-1242 or to register online visit iewbc.org.

For more information on Cal State San Bernardino, contact the university's Office of Public Affairs at (909) 537-5007 and visit news.csusb.edu.

The Inland Empire Women's Business Center at Cal State San Bernardino will hold a workshop on Saturday, to help people who are considering launching a new business or who already operate their own businesses.