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How Small Business Development Centers (SBDCs) Can Help Your Business

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UW-Madison Small Business Development Center (SBDC) celebrating SBDC Day. Starting a new small business? Looking for some professional consulting to help you think through your business plan or your strategies for growth? Your local Small Business Development Center (SBDC) can help. Business planning.

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MSU Celebrates Student Entrepreneurship | Starkville Daily News

Campus Entrepreneurship

Today I learned from Steven Nalley at the Starkville Daily New that some Mississippi State students have pushed into the breathalyzer market and have done well with their idea ( Night and Day Vending ) on the business plan circuit. They chose to create a campus activity app instead. Parker Stewart is a true competitor.

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One Little Ice Cream Cart That’s About to Have Big Growth

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By contrast, Stuart grew up working in his father’s law office in the Mississippi Delta. In addition to law, Stuart was involved in various business ventures, including building subdivisions, as well as owning or operating restaurants, a grocery store, and a farm.

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How to Fund a Startup

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So while nearly all VC funds have some addressyou can send your business plan to, VCs privately admit the chanceof getting funding by this route is near zero. I suspect VCs accept business plans "over the transom" more as away to keep tabs on industry trends than as a source of deals.

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Boom and Bust and What Comes Next

Scalable Startup

The 2000 collapse followed a period of manic investing when entrepreneurs with off-the-wall ideas and ridiculous or nonexistent business plans sought and received funding from ill-informed investors blinded by the magical aura of the Internet or just simple greed.