BUSINESSCourses Learn what moves your business forward.
Short video lessons on money, marketing, contracts and cutting costs. Watch on your schedule, pick up where you left off, and put it to work in your Compass roadmap.
Pick a topic. Start with one video.
Every course is free for clients. Become a client to unlock all of them.
Cash Flow and Financial Reporting
Read your financial reports, forecast your cash flow, collect what you are owed and know your cash runway.
Choosing the Right Kind of Funding
Loans, investors or grants: find the funding that fits your business and how the LA funding landscape works.
Preparing a Funding Application
Get application-ready with a pre-application checklist, a clear use of funds and answers that match what funders look for.
Financial Readiness for Small Business Owners
The systems underneath your business, reading your own numbers, and building cash, capacity and credit.
Getting Paid, Knowing Your Numbers, Borrowing Well
Get paid faster, know your own numbers, and borrow on terms that work for you.
Small Business Marketing Masterclass
Three sessions: positioning and visibility, AI that does real work, and building a website you control.
Winning Government and Corporate Contracts
Get procurement ready, find the right certifications, win the bid and become a corporate supplier.
Utility Programs That Cut Your Costs
LADWP and Edison rebates, programs and rates that lower what you pay for power and water.
Learn it in minutes. Use it the same day.
Watch a short video
Each lesson is broken into short videos you can watch on a lunch break. Many have captions you can turn on.
Check what you learned
Quick knowledge checks in the funding courses help the big ideas stick.
Pick up where you left off
Your progress is saved, so you can stop any time and come back to the exact video.
Put it to work
Many of the same videos show up on your Compass roadmap, right next to the step they help you finish.
Become a client. Every course is included.
Signing up is free for LA County businesses and takes a few minutes.
- All 8 courses and every video
- Your own roadmap in Compass
- One-on-one advising with our team