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Successfully launching
a new business requires a broad range of resources...resources
often unavailable to the entrepreneur. Mass Ventures
helps fill that void by providing access to the
knowledge, skills, and contacts you need to reach
commercialization. From our virtual incubation services
anywhere in Western Mass to strategic planning and
assistance in obtaining funding, Mass Ventures provides
you with the critical ingredients you need to grow
and succeed.
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Massachusetts Small Business
Development Center
Contact Info:
Western MA Regional Office in Springfield
413-737-6712
e-mail: msbdc@msbdc.umass.edu
website: www.msbdc.org/wmass
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MSBDC is a coalition
of the US Small Business Administration, The Mass
Exec. Office of Economic Affairs and UMass Amherst.
Their mission is to help new and existing businesses
succeed.
Free and confidential counceling services are
available with MSBDC councelors with expertise
in finance, marketing and other disciplines. Business
feasibility, business plan development, strategic
planning, loan packaging, cash flow management
and many other business issues can be discussed
in private meetings arranged through the Chamber
office.
MSBDC also provides an ongoingseries of low-cost
seminarsand training programs often cosponsored
with the Chamber of Commerce.
Lyne Kendall of the MSBDC visits Amherst 3 Thursdays
a month to offer free and confidential counseling
for all aspects of small business. For an appointment
call Cherrel at the Chamber, 253-0700.
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Entrepeneur's Institute
Contact Info:
UMass School of Management
Professor Bob Hopley
545-3927
rhopley@som.umass.edu.
Professor Jim Theroux
545-5677
theroux@som.umass.edu
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Teams of School
of Management undergraduates are available for various
marketing related projects such as basic research,
market studies and other assistance. Students receive
academic credit and provide dozens of hours of potentially
valuable help for local businesses. Contact Professors
Theroux and Hopley to discuss your projects.
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UMass Family Business Center
Conact Info:
Ira Bryck
Mail: UMass Family Business Center Division
of Continuing Education
Box 31650 Amherst, MA
01003-1650
Phone:545-1537
Fax: 545-3351
e-mail: bryck@admin.umass.edu
website: www.umass.edu/fambiz
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The UMass/Amherst
Family Business Center assists family owned companies
in recognizing their common problems and in finding
solutions to the unique challenges confronting them.
The Center offers members an educational, interactive
learning environment, including presentations by
experts from the fields of psychology, management
training and development, law, accounting, financial
and estate planning, and banking. Learn to run your
company more professionally, develop policies and
procedures based on the best practices of successful
colleagues, improve your communication and strategizing
skills, increase both the satisfaction and the bottom
line in your family owned business.
Through a series of well-catered dinner forums and
roundtable discussion groups, the center offers
a confidential and intimate enviroment for airing
and sharing among the membership. Reach out and
broaden your professional and social horizons in
the comfort of a built-in community of colleagues
who can be counted on for support and continuing
dialogue.
We encourage you to attend our dinner forums, they
are listed on the calendar
of events and chamber members are invited to
attend one dinner event free of charge. We hope
you will take advantage of this great business resource.
The director of the UMass Family Business Center,
Ira Bryck, is interested and available to speak
with you more.
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SCORE
Contact Info:
Springfeild Enterprise Center
1 Federal Street
Springfield, MA
01105
Chapter #228,
413-785-0314
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Springfield, Mass
SCORE, Service Corps of Retired Executives Association,
a volunteer organization supporting Small Business.
Offers one to one counseling and periodic workshops.
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