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Self-employment rates are lowest for this group of people with disabilities.
What are VR participants?
The worksheet that measures if self-employment is a good fit for the participant.
What is the Self-Employment Readiness Worksheet?
Materials and supplies, equipment, and furniture are examples of these.
What are business start-up costs?
A hair stylist in an existing salon, a bookkeeper working from home, or a jewelry maker selling wares at craft shows.
What are examples of Tier 1 businesses?
The number of VR-SEG website chapters.
What is eight (8)?
Follow-though, multi-taking, and leadership are examples of these.
What are business owner traits?
This worksheet helps a participant determine what they would need to make and sell to cover their costs.
What is the cost-evaluation worksheet?
Examples could be wages, interest payments, property, and guns.
What are business costs that VR funds might not cover?
The type of information found in Chapter 2 of the VR-SEG website.
What is participant readiness?
Physical, social, community, spiritual, and learning are examples of these.
What are personal values?
A worksheet used to look at the reason for self-employment, past experience, and skills and/or training needed.
What is the “About You” worksheet?
Examples may be speculative, non-profit, hobby, and franchise businesses.
What are unsupported business types in VR?
The chapter that covers the cost-evaluation exercise.
What is Chapter 3 – Business Feasibility?
Values that you can take “off and on” depending on the situation.
What are “hat” values?
When a participant meets with a business owner and watches and learns from them.
What is self-employment shadowing?
Participant businesses that require more than $10,000 in funding?
What are Tier 3 businesses?
The place on the website where you can find all the worksheets to print.
What is the Materials tab?
Things a participant can believe about being self-employed that are usually not true.
What are self-employment myths?
3 worksheets that can serve as a simple business plan.
What are the About You, About your Business, and Start-up Costs worksheets?