Start a Business
Your dreams realized
Make your big idea something real in the Evansville region!
At E-REP, we understand that fostering the development of new businesses is just as critical to sustainable economic growth as helping existing companies with their expansion plans. The Southwest Indiana Small Business Development Center (hosted by E-REP) exists to help you start or grow your business. The team offers no-cost business advising, market research, workshops, specialized training and more.
Ready to pursue your dream?
Southwest indiana small business development center (SBDC)
Hosted by the Evansville Regional Economic Partnership (E-REP), the Southwest Indiana Small Business Development Center (SBDC) helps businesses start, grow, finance, innovate and transition through no-cost, confidential business advising and low-cost training. Funded in part through a Cooperative Agreement with the U.S. Small Business Administration.
Success Stories
No Cost Services
Helping Indiana small businesses at every stage of the entrepreneurial journey
The Southwest Indiana Small Business Development Center (SBDC) provides no-cost, confidential business advising, hands-on training, and access to a library of curated tools and resources designed to help entrepreneurs and business owners succeed—from startup to expansion, and even through sale or retirement.
Services include:
Business planning • Financial projections • Startups • Market research • Networking • Strategic planning • Business counseling • Business development • Marketing • Financing advice • Innovation • Exporting • Acquisitions • Succession planning
You do not have to be an E-REP member to meet with the Southwest Indiana Small Business Development Center.
Start, grow, finance, innovate or transition your business with an SBDC Advisor!
From vision to
reality.
From tech and the health sciences to the next big thing on the horizon, entrepreneurs realize their dreams in the Evansville Region.
Because we dream right along with you.
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