Entrepreneurship, Side gigs, and Business Building in Pensacola, A ‘How to' Conversation

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Have you ever had a great idea? Have you ever wanted to own your own side gig/business or scale a product into the national spotlight? PYP is happy to have Mr. Patrick Rooney from CO:LAB, a local business incubator.

What to expect:

• Actionable steps to build a business in Pensacola
• Understanding idea identification and scaling to markets
• Introduction on how to find funding, loans
• Introduction to entrepreneurship and network building
• Avoiding pitfalls and fatal errors in business development

Patrick serves as Director of Entrepreneurship Development for CO:LAB Pensacola, a program of Florida West EDA, in partnership with Pensacola State College. CO:LAB is a business incubator and growth accelerator with a key goal: to help entrepreneurs reach their next level. CO:LAB does this with a community of mentoring, participating, caring, giving, and collaborating.

He has a proven track record in building and leading high-performance teams through effective assistance with private fundraising, enterprise process improvements, and operating management process development. He is a graduate of the University of West Florida with a Bachelor of Arts in Accounting with magna cum laude honors. He earned his Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in November 1980 and is a Chartered Global Management Accountant. He also completed a yearlong program on Multinational Management at Georgia Institute of Technology through the Southern Center for International Studies.