Claudia Yáñez – Claudia is a Bilingual Sr. Small Business Specialist with the City of Aurora and the Aurora-South Metro SBDC. She is a business generalist with deep expertise in a variety of start-ups including food and childcare businesses, and the formation of cooperatives. She can work with SBDC clients in business plan development, business start-up strategies, cash flow development, pricing and sales projections, marketing strategies and, basic QuickBooks. She is the instructor for the Leading Edge Business Planning class and Cooperative Development classes in Spanish. She has assisted over 250 small businesses in launching and growing. Claudia is a Certified Colorado SBDC Network consultant.