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Missouri Small Business Development Centers (MO SBDC): providing business counseling and training to help both existing and start-up businesses.
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Selling to the government
Missouri Procurement Technical Assistance Centers (MO PTAC): selling to federal, state and local government entities.
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Missouri Small Business & Technology Development Centers (MO SBTDC): enhancing technological competitiveness. This program includes the MoFAST initiative, helping to access government R&D (SBIR/STTR) awards.
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Career Options Project: dislocated workers and others can obtain information on occupations and training
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Environmental Programs: showing businesses how to save money by reducing waste, understand regulations and use recycled materials.
Make a film in Missouri
Missouri Film Office: helping filmmakers in Missouri with needs such as scouting, pre-production and liaison via a strong network of local contacts
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The University of Missouri Extension's business program helps Missouri's entrepreneurs succeed in private enterprise and promotes the economic development of the state of Missouri. It performs this vital service through a network of business counselors located throughout the state. [more] |
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Renewable Alternatives, Columbia
Dr. Rusty Sutterlin, co-founder and CEO of Renewable Alternatives, a Columbia, Mo.-based business, calls the University of Missouri's SBTDC a "full-circle service provider." Sutterlin along with his partner and the firm's co-founder, MU chemical engineering Professor Galen Suppes, have pursued several SBIR-STTR awards with the help of MU's business counselors. [more]
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