The Beginner’s Guide to Starting a Small Business
Learn the 9 Fundamentals to Starting and Growing a Small Business
What if it gave you freedom of many kinds, including financially? What if it also gave you time in the mornings with your kids, security from the AI (artificial intelligence) takeover, or the mental freedom of micromanagement from your boss?
Working for a company, corporation, or someone other than yourself and YOUR dream can feel as if the system is meant to make you fail. So build your own path.
This $15 Business Basics course is for you IF:
✅ You can just feel that you’re meant for more.
✅ You’re burned out, feeling undervalued in your job.
✅ You aren’t making the kind of money you want to be making yet.
✅ You’re worried AI might be after your job.
✅ You’ve always wanted to start that idea, but just didn’t know how.
The key is to learn and execute the basics, really well. Learn the fundamentals of starting and growing a small business, and the world you want, really is yours.
What if starting a small business changed your life for the better?
Don’t put your business idea on hold for even a minute longer.
Just Like You.
Join people just like you who are fast-tracking their businesses with this beginner’s guide to starting a small business
P&L
Begin with the End in Mind
Businesses are made and broken by the P&L
This course will help you learn what a P&L is and how to use it in your business.
It’s Time for a Change. Your business idea is worth it.
Hi. I’m Maigen.
I’m a small business owner, just like you. I started my business with no plan, no access to capital, and no understanding of how to run a business. It took me years to learn what felt so effortless for others, and I spent hundreds of thousands more than I would have had to, had I just known.
I’ve curated a beginner’s guide to get you started on the things you should absolutely be thinking about as you start your new business.
I started the Business Courtyard to help you become more strategic, and to open doors no one opened for me. It’s a place to come in and soak up the learnings, then set back off into the world to do what you want to accomplish in small business.
Why Would You Want to Listen to Me?
✅ I started my own small business and turned it into a high-earning, 6-Figure company.
✅ I’ve done it the worse way possible and succeeded so you get to learn from me without the cost or time it took - not because I wanted to, because I didn’t know any other way.
✅ As former Managing Director of one of the largest startup hubs in Houston (The Cannon), I met with hundreds of new small businesses, and hundreds of investors to learn what makes a business attractive, profitable, and effective. (Hint: It’s all about the P&L, which we go over in detail in this Beginner’s Guide to Starting a Small Business.)
What's in the Beginner's Guide to Starting a Small Business?
What's in the Beginner's Guide to Starting a Small Business?
What’s In the $15 Beginner’s Guide?
✅ Starting with the End in Mind: The P&L
✅ Understanding Key Performance Indicators
✅ Knowing the Main Functions of a Small Business
✅ Creating a Business Plan
✅ Ways to Fund Your Business
✅ Setting Up Your Business Entity & Name
✅ Tax Considerations
✅ The Part Most People Get Wrong: Reporting & Analytics
✅ The Part Most People Never Get To: Calibrating & Continuing