Fueling your business with funding and financials
Fuel your business ideas We know you have great ideas, but passion alone doesn’t pay the bills. Your brilliant ideas need funding, and Missouri SBDC at MSU experts are here to help you get a grasp on your financial groundwork. Whether you are a solopreneur, start-up or experienced entrepreneur, funding and financials are the fuel […]
Early-Stage Business Boot Camp growing statewide
Poplar Bluff, Joplin, Mountain Grove and Springfield areas now taking registrations.
Finding that need in fifth grade
Angela Stephens found her calling thanks to repeated phone calls from her son’s school.
Icehouse to idea hub: Marlin family’s legacy fuels Springfield’s innovation
efactory’s Brick City: History meets hustle.
Makenna Seghers: Business meets Agriculture with the Early-Stage Business Bootcamp
Missouri SBDC at MSU’s Early-Stage Business Bootcamp helps bring MacKenna Segher’s business idea to life. Thanks to the bootcamp’s resources, Seghers is prepared to take on her soil laboratory business venture.
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Anticipating the future with Imagine Foresight
Envisioning the future Everyone has an image of the future. In the 1960’s, cartoonists imagined the future of flying cars. In “Back to the Future 2,” screenwriters imagined hoverboards, video calls, smart homes and screen-in-screen viewing. In practically every business, someone is thinking about what comes next, be it in their job description or not. […]
Join Our Team – Hiring a Regional Program Coordinator
We’re looking for a talented regional program coordinator to support Missouri State’s Economic Development Administration University Center. The right candidate will oversee a comprehensive grant program designed to connect individuals, employers and economic development organizations with university resources. Are you highly motivated and community-focused? As part of the efactory’s business support and training programs and […]
Regional collaboration aims to spark innovation and entrepreneurship across southwest Missouri
Springfield Business Development Corporation (SBDC) and Springfield Area Chamber of Commerce were recently awarded a regional Node Planning Grant from Missouri Technology Corporation. The planning grant will be used to organize regional “nodes” which are intended to support innovation and entrepreneurship through coordinated partnerships among entrepreneurial services organizations withing the node. This process will align […]
Welcome Rob Taylor to the team
Meet our new Administrative Assistant, Rob Taylor. He joined us alongside the opening of our new coworking space in Brick. He’s excited to be here, and we’re excited to have another welcoming personality at the face of our office. He’s everything we could ask for in someone who will make the member experience memorable: personable, […]