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Virginia.gov has developed a new portal for doing business in the Commonwealth: starting a business, running a business, business resources, employment, tourism and travel, even a section for kids. WCPL is partnering with the Dept. of Business Assistance to help you with finding the resources you need. At Washington County Public Library we mean business!
 A series of entrepreneurial business and management workshops are being held across Southwest Virginia to assist new business startups and existing small businesses! These workshops
are designed to provide information on available business resources and deliver
practical, hands-on training covering key elements of business practice.
Workshop segments will include information on how to start and operate a
business, growing an existing business, marketing strategies, financing and
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The mission of the Center for Business and Industry is to establish and deliver a total program for retraining, job-specific retraining, and pre-employment training to foster and promote area economic development. Announcing a new Pharmacy Technician Program. Visit them online: http://www.vhcc.edu/cbi/ |
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Virginia Dept. of Business Assistance Small Business Launchpad: 17 steps to starting a business in Virginia. |
Note: Washington County PL has partnered with the Virginia Dept. of Business Assistance to provide information to entrepreneurs and small business owners looking for information about their business concerns. The Virginia Business Information Center is the "one stop" gateway for answers to your questions and for information about how to obtain assistance and action from state government agencies and their programs. Stop by the Reference Desk at the Main Library or call 676-6298 for more details.
How to Start a Business in Virginia, a service of the Virginia Economic Development Partnership
Business and Company Resource Center (Gale) through
FindItVa.
Login (valid WCPL card number) required*
Includes profiles of over 500,000 companies, both public and private, industry and trade journals, business associations, brand and product information, includes Predicasts reports, and
Newsletters ASAP (*available in the library or from remote computers for patrons
with valid WCPL cards through
Find It Virginia
)
Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service
Statistics, trends, reports, demographics for the Commonwealth of Virginia. Virginia Statistical Abstract. Also includes links to U.Va. Geospatial and Statistical Data Center.
BusinesStart "Microenterprise"
Development Program (an affiliate of People, Inc.). Business training,
technical assistance, access to capital for new and existing small businesses.
BusinesStart is located in Abingdon at 1173 West Main. Contact
"BusinesStart" 276-619-2228
Small business incubators are among the most popular techniques to help entrepreneurs and start up businesses survive and grow.
The small business incubator is a physical facility which provides various sizes of business offices and suites, warehousing and manufacturing space, common loading docks, shared board and meeting spaces, kitchen facilities and a common reception area.
The Virginia Highlands Small Business Incubator is located in the new Stone Mill Business and Technology Park in Abingdon.
The focus is on launching locally owned technology-based companies. It contains 40,000 square feet of office space which house 33 individual offices, four office suites and four manufacturing spaces.
Recently the Virginia Highlands Small Business Development Center relocated the the Small Business Incubator site.
"For established firms, emerging companies or aspiring entrepreneurs, the Virginia SBDC is the place where businesses go to talk business. Counseling, training and information resources are the hallmark of the SBDC program. Business owners and managers can count on professional guidance, experienced insight, practical solutions and respect for confidentiality when they work with a Virginia SBDC."
Contact Jim Tilley, Director, or Sue Wagner (swagner@vhcc.edu) at 276-492-2066.
Bristol Chapter of SCORE Business tips, contacts, newsletter.
[REGISTRATION REQUIRED*]
NetLibrary is a collection of over 20,000 full text books, mostly academic, Reference, or career-oriented in focus. There are thousands of business-related titles available, including books on Management, Planning, Human Resources, Interviewing, and Compensation. Patrons who register at the NetLibrary site while in the Library can access these titles from anywhere by using an Internet connection. (*Must register in library first)
UPDATED 02/19/08
