Business Assistance and Financing

Business Assistance

• SBA/CIT SBLC Developing a Business Plan
• Active Plans: The Leading On-line Business Planner
• The U.S. Small Business Administration Starting Your Business Web Site
• Starting a Business in Wisconsin - State of Wisconsin
• Wisconsin Entrepreneurs' Network
• Business Wizard - State of WI Business Assistance
• Wisconsin Business Permit Primer - environmental permitting programs
• Sauk Prairie Market Analysis - 2005
• Forward Wisconsin
• Cap Services Wisconsin Virtual Business Incubator
• Business Procurement Assistance Center - "Assisting WI Businesses with Government Contracts"
• Internal Revenue Service - Small Business Products
• Tourism Business Development Toolbox
• Entrepreneur Magazine
• 4-C Community Coordinated Child Care, Inc.
• Idea Cafe - The Small Business Channel
• "Let's Talk Business" - Ideas for Expanding Retail & Services in Your Community - UW Cooperative Extension Center for Community Economic Development
• More Business - By Entrepreneurs for Entrepreneurs
• North American Industry Classification System (NAICS)
• Small Business Development Center
• SBDC Solutions for Small Business
• Wisconsin Innovation Service Center
• Wisconsin Business Resource Network - Web Site Directory
• Wisconsin Manufacturing Extension Partnership
• Workforce Development Board of South Central Wisconsin, Inc.
• Wisconsin Technology Council

Business Financing

• The Baird Private Equity group consists of a series of partnerships that invest in high-growth, early- to late-stage companies and change-of-control transactions within targeted industry sectors in both North America and Europe.
• Wisconsin Angel Network - mission is to increase the number and amount of early-stage equity investments in Wisconsin start-ups
• Gaebler Ventures - A business incubator and holding company providing venture capital investment to early-stage companies
• Impact Seven - A Wisconsin Development Corporation
• Grants.gov is the single access point for over 900 grant programs offered by the 26 Federal grant-making agencies
• Mason Wells is a middle-market private equity investor serving Midwest entrepreneurs who need capital to start a business, acquire a business or to support growth.
• National Venture Capital Association
• Silicon Pastures - A Milwaukee based venture capital firm
• Small Business Administration (SBA)
• Venture Investors Management LLC - Manager of Early Stage Venture Capital Funds
• United States Department of Agriculture - Rural Development
• Wisconsin Business Development Finance Corporation
• Wisconsin Department of Commerce - Financing Your Business in Wisconsin
• Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority
• Wisconsin Women's Business Initiative Corporation