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• Grow your small business through partnerships
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• How to protect your business against risk

 

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Customer development

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• Discover who your customers are
• Testing out what you think you know
• Take your business online

 

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• Where are your customers and how will you reach them?

 

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• Dealing with uncertainty

 

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• What does it take to be profitable?
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