{"id":16278,"date":"2025-10-04T23:52:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T05:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-workshop-geared-to-help-residents-start-a-business\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T21:56:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T03:56:14","slug":"cortez-workshop-geared-to-help-residents-start-a-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-workshop-geared-to-help-residents-start-a-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Cortez workshop geared to help  residents start a business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=e6738dd0-0af9-59ac-a2e2-ed365c0ae026&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1279\" alt=\"Cortez will have an election June 8 to ask voters to opt out of state telecommunication law SB 152. (Journal file photo)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Cortez will have an election June 8 to ask voters to opt out of state telecommunication law SB 152. (Journal file photo)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Journal file photo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Starting Your Business workshop, aimed at guiding aspiring entrepreneurs through the process of starting a small business, will be held Oct. 14 at Cortez City Hall, 123 E. Roger Smith Ave.<\/p>\n<p>The event, organized in partnership with the Southwest Colorado Small Business Development Center and the Cortez Retail Enhancement Association, will run from 9 a.m. to noon.<\/p>\n<p>The workshop will cover key steps for launching a business. Topics include business planning, the Business Model Canvas, financing options, legal structure, local resources, taxes and scheduling, and insurance for small businesses. Attendees can schedule a free, confidential one-on-one consulting session with the SBDC following the workshop.<\/p>\n<p>Registration is available at http:\/\/www.sbdcfortlewis.org and costs $10 per person. The program is supported by First Southwest Bank and the Colorado Small Business Development Center Network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consulting sessions available after workshop<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[431,21,28,60,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-16278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-business-general","tag-cortez","tag-headlines","tag-montezuma-county","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16278"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77184,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16278\/revisions\/77184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16278"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=16278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}