Thinking About Starting a Business or Ready to Grow?
You're in the right place! The UW Parkside Small Business Development Center has developed the IDEA process to grow entrepreneurship and business. Annually we assist more than 300 small business owners and entrepreneurs in Southeast Wisconsin. Whether you are at the discovery level of becoming an entrepreneur, someone researching ideas to develop into a business or if you're looking for methods to grow an existing business, we can assist you.
The UW-Parkside SBDC, in conjunction with its partners, has assembled a number of resources to facilitate an entrepreneurial pathway. For a listing of resource links, click the IDEA tab and select where you are along the business development process.
About The SBDC
The UW-Parkside SBDC provides education, training, and one-on-one counseling to entrepreneurs and existing businesses throughout Kenosha and Racine counties, while connecting business to university resources including students and faculty at UW-Parkside. A program of the School of Business and Technology, the SBDC also offers workshops and business writing series to help understand the clear picture of what it takes to run a successful business.
Some key roles of the SBDC include:
- Coaching and guidance to businesses
- Financial lending assistance
- Business/Marketing/Strategic Plan development
- Business startup plans
- Market analysis for businesses
- Financial analysis
- Minority business issues
- Growth assistance for existing businesses
- Tech venture assistance
The UW-Parkside SBDC is housed within the Molinaro Hall on the campus of UW-Parkside with outreach offices for client services at the Center for Advanced Technology and Innovation (CATI), 2320 Renaissance Blvd, Sturtevant, and the Kenosha Area Business Alliance (KABA), 600 52nd Street, Suite 120, Kenosha. Please call 262-595-3363 to make an appointment. If you need immediate assistance with general business issues call our business answer line at 1-800-940-7232.
