This guide has given me the ability to make good decisions in making the right choice about what type of business to start. All of your guides have helped me to see things from a better point of view. I look forward to every guide you send me. I hope you continue to develop new courses - I don't want them to end.
Prison Education Program
How To Start Your Own Business: Thrive In The First Year
The second guide in Level’s How To Start Your Own Business series for people in prison gives solid instruction on how to set up a new business after incarceration and propel it through the important first year. This guide focuses on the critical fundamentals – startup, budgeting, marketing, accounting, taxes and investing for growth.
Enrollment fee is a one-time payment that includes this guide and Level's entire prison education program including all educational and job training guides and all certificates. No hidden monthly payments or recurring fees. The enrollment fee includes shipping.
What they'll learn:
- Get set up legally and understand the difference between common business structures
- Learn how to budget for success including the importance of staying aware of cash flow
- Build your business through marketing with a focus on low cost options
- Learn good accounting practices to handle your money with care and keep good records
- Prepare to pay taxes and comply with other legal requirements
Guide includes:
Finances
Goal setting
Skill development
Quiz
Schedule
Self-guided - learners complete at their own paceGuide length
48 pagesTime to complete
~10 hoursWhat is Level?
Level is a popular, independent, nonprofit prison education program that offers education, career training and personal development for people in prison and connects with family members and supporters on the outside. Our unique approach can reach nearly any person at any prison, even those in high security or solitary confinement. 7,052 people in prison have spent 109,220 hours using the Level program inside 1,071 prisons across the country.
Testimonials for this guide:
- Michael, incarcerated in Colorado
I had no idea how to go about starting my own business and the information in this guide was very helpful. It provided information on how to conduct research before starting a business and how to plan everything. I want other people to learn how to be entrepreneurs, too, and help create a better society.
- Gabriel, in prison in Pennsylvania
So little information and schooling is available to us here. I used this guide more than I thought I would. I have a certificate in business but I needed to look back and check for things I thought I knew. I learned new things and it was humbling to realize how much I forgot. This is a great thing you are doing.
- Steven, in prison in Arizona
