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Virtual Career Center
Entrepreneurial/Small Business
Resources
Whether you are starting your
own business or building an exisiting
business, you may need additional
resources to be successful.
- Business
Network International
- BNI is a business and professional
networking organization that allows
only one person per professional
classification or specialty to
join a chapter.
www.bni.com
- Career
Transitions Center
- Start Your Own Business is a
10-week course offered to help
participants develop a plan to
start their own businesses instead
of working for someone else. About
half of the participants decide
to start a business after taking
the course, and about half of
those actually start their own
businesses.
www.ctcchicago.org/SYOB.htm
- Crain's
Chicago Business -
The Small Business section includes
news and information related to
starting and growing small businesses.
www.chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/portal.pl?id=47
- SCORE
- the volunteer resource partner
of the U.S. Small Business Administration,
offering counseling, workshops
and an on-site Business Information
Center.
www.scorechicago.org
- UIC
Center for Urban Business/Small
Business Development Center
- offers individal consulting
and group seminars.
https://web.cba.uic.edu/cub/
- UIC
Institute of Entrepreneurial Studies
- The mission is to expand awareness
and knowledge among students,
entrepreneurs, professionals and
academics regarding new venture
opportunities, methods for creating
and growing enterprises, and the
role of entrepreneurship and new/smaller
firms in economic development
and the world economy.
www.uic.edu/cba/ies/
- Women's
Business Development Center
- Has offered workshops, advising
and comprehensive resources since
1986. to help women launch and
strengthen businesses in Chicagoland.
www.wbdc.org
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