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# Workshop will teach how to start a successful business
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/workshop-will-teach-how-to-start-a-successful-business/
- Published: 2003-07-03T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T02:28:33.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Business, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Daily Press staff*

On Aug. 21, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., the Santa Chamber of Commerce will hold an entrepreneur’s workshop taught by Bill Crookston, Ph.D. professor of entrepreneurship at USC’s Marshall School of Business.

The workshop will go in-depth on what it takes to start or improve a business. It will include how to turn an idea into a business concept, where to find customers and markets, how to take the product or service and turn it into a reality, distribution channels and money issues.

Participants will learn how to overcome these obstacles and create a profitable business so they can leave with the tools to become a successful entrepreneur.

The cost is $75 for chamber members and $150 for non-members.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on July 3, 2003.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/070303.pdf?ref=smdp.com)