$5,000 Second Runner-Up

North Coast Tutoring Services

Andrew Schell

North Coast Tutoring Services is a Eureka-based tutoring clinic with educational resources, computers, current school district textbooks, reading, writing, and phonics programs, and passionate teachers. NCTS will offer one-on-one tutoring, small group tutoring, assessment testing, a mobile tutoring service, computer training, standardized test preparation, and more.

Team Advisors:

Heather Bonser-Bishop, Mike Munson, Susan Jansson

Most Useful Resources:

SBDC, the advisors, the Economic Fuel website, and anyone willing to red-ink my plan.

Reason for Participating in Economic Fuel:

It’s always been a dream of mine to open a tutoring clinic Humboldt County.

Advice for Future Competitors:

Focus on your financials; Start early and utilize those brilliant advisors!

Most Valuable Lesson Learned from Writing the Business Plan:

It is extremely easy to visualize a business idea yet extremely tough to put it all down in a plan.