COOLEY COURSE
Overseas Workshop Pre-opening Risk Guide
Before making money abroad, avoid losing it through inflated prices, weak partnerships or premature investment. Six lessons help you test the decision, including the first 90 days on site.
COURSE OVERVIEW
Avoid costly mistakes before making money
For anyone taking financial, operating or technical responsibility for an overseas workshop. The course does not promise a return. It helps you avoid costly mistakes before the business earns money: a high quoted price is not profit, verbal partnership promises are not delivery, and a fully equipped site does not replace paid orders.
The six lessons cover your reasons for going, real business profit, a small paid partnership pilot, boundaries around money, inventory and equipment, a minimum viable site and team, and on-site verification during the first 90 days. Use customer, delivery, cash and team evidence to decide whether to continue, adjust or stop.
CURRICULUM
6 lessons to build your departure decision in sequence
- 0124 min
Lesson 1：Why go abroad？
Assess your goal, time, capabilities, evidence and limits.
- 0221 min
Lesson 2：A high price is not profit
Assess a business's sustainability using actual prices, paying customers, full costs, job contribution and period profit.
- 0322 min
Lesson 3：Test the partnership before opening
Validate demand, delivery, payment, responsiveness, correction and exit through a small real pilot.
- 0414 min
Lesson 4：Money, inventory, equipment and partnership boundaries
Name every type of money, match responsibility with authority and define evidence, assets and exit settlement in advance.
- 0511 min
Lesson 5：Site and minimum team
Work backward from core services, real orders and payback to premises, people, equipment and launch requirements.
- 0617 min
Lesson 6: validating the first 90 days on site
Save the pre-departure baseline and use ten days and three months of on-site facts to continue, adjust or stop.