Florida
Miami
The FAU Small Business Development Center
The FAU Small Business Development Center provides business consultation services to small and medium sized businesses looking to grow. The SBDC’s mission is to help businesses develop their business model, strategize their goals and help them execute and exceed those goals.
Florida Power and Light
Helps entrepreneurs and small businesses grow and prosper with their PoweringFlorida® Small Business Tool. This local business intelligence tool is designed to help small and medium-sized business owners compare themselves to their competition and make intelligent business decisions. The web-based app is imbedded in PoweringFlorida.com and provides comprehensive market analysis designed to allow companies to benchmark themself against the competition; identify and map potential customers and suppliers; map demographics, labor force and consumer expenditure data; and find the best places to advertise.
https://www.fpl.com/business/resources/small-business-tool.html
Non-profit organization providing a network of resources and expert resources for small business owners and entrepreneurs.
Florida First Capital Finance Corp.
(FFCFC), founded by the State of Florida and licensed since 1984 by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), is chartered for the primary purpose of promoting and assisting the growth and development of small business by assisting with the SBA 504 and 7A loan programs as well as the Florida Recycling Loan Program.
Florida Women’s Business Center (FLWBC)
The Florida Women’s Business Center (FLWBC) assist women in achieving their dreams by helping them start, run, and grow successful businesses, regardless of social or financial disadvantage, race, ethnicity, or business background.
The Miami MBDA Export Center, is operated in Florida by M. Gill & Associates, Inc., a minority and woman-owned company, with over 30 years of service excellence to small, minority, women and veteran-owned businesses throughout the United States, the Caribbean, Canada, and Africa.
https://www.mbda.gov/business-center/miami-mbda-export-center
Orlando
SCORE is a nonprofit association supported by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Our Mission: Grow successful small businesses across America, one business at a time.
Every Wednesday at 9 am 1MC Orlando will showcase two startups from the Metro Orlando area in the Bush Auditorium at Rollins College in Winter Park. Presenters prepare six-minute presentations and engage in 20 minutes of feedback and questioning from a diverse audience of mentors, advisors, and entrepreneurs.
https://www.orlandoentrepreneurs.org/view/1-million-cups/
We guide women business owners in defining and achieving tangible goals by providing them with access to a panel of business advisors. Each advisory panel is hand-selected based upon each woman business owner’s individual needs. These volunteer panelists serve as mentors and advisors for a 12-month period at no charge to the woman business owner and, ultimately, strive to help the woman business owner achieve growth and profitability.
https://www.athenaorlando.com/
BBIF Florda Black Business Investment Fund
BBIF Florida is a is a non-traditional lender that specializes in providing loans to black, minority and underserved small businesses.
Do you have a truly spectacular idea but no idea where to go with it? (But you just know this thing’s gonna be big?) Starter Studio could be your chance to incubate and grow your business in a nurturing environment. Those entrepreneurs who are accepted (that’s right) into the “class” will receive one-on-one training from a specially selected expert. They will also receive 24/7 access to the studio’s beautiful work space downtown (with all the coffee, soda, and snacks you want) as well as many educational events and discussion forums to help direct all those great ideas you have into something manageable and (ultimately) profitable.
https://www.starterstudio.org/
The Orlando MBDA Business Center is federally funded by the U.S. Department of Commerce, with a mission to foster the growth, expansion, & competitiveness of minority business enterprises (MBEs) by assuring access to credit, capital, markets, and other resources.
Tampa
Entrepreneur Collaborative Center
Hillsborough’s Entrepreneur Collaborative Center serves as a flexible venue for free and low-cost entrepreneurial services, including workshops, lectures, consulting, and other events hosted by partnered organizations.
https://www.hillsboroughcounty.org/locations/entrepreneur-collaborative-center
SBDC at the University of South Florida Tampa
The greatest strength of the SBDC is their free, confidential, 1-on-1 business mentoring for anyone who seeks it.
https://sbdctampabay.com/tampa/
We’re local volunteers eager to provide free help to small businesses in Hillsborough County.
WBC-The Tampa Bay Women’s Business Centre
The Tampa Bay Women’s Business Centre (WBC), is part of a national network of WBC’s dedicated to helping female entrepreneurs to launch and grow their own businesses. Funded through the Federal office of Women’s Business Ownership, our team of professionals help women with training and coaching in entrepreneurial readiness, business plan development, networking, strategic planning, finance preparedness, career transition and access to capital.
http://www.thecentre.org/programs/womens-business-centre
1 Million Cups is an educational and support program for Entrepreneurs. We meet every Wednesday at 9am. Admission is free.
Jacksonville
SCORE provides free counseling and advice to small businesses.
https://jacksonville.score.org/
The Small Business Resource Center
The Small Business Resource Center offers access to premier research databases and textual resources categorized into relevant sections (business plans, funding, marketing, etc).
https://www.jaxpubliclibrary.org/research/small-business-resource-center
Women’s Business Centers are nationwide programs established by the SBA to assist women in starting small businesses.
http://jaxchamberfoundation.org/jacksonville-womens-business-center/
JAX Chamber’s Small Business Center
For more than 20 years the JAX Chamber’s Small Business Center has provided mentoring, entrepreneurial education, consulting and networking opportunities to advance the success of entrepreneurs at every stage of business development. The Small Business Center (SBC), through its programming, continues to provide entrepreneurs with the critical skills needed to start and grow a business
Small Business Development Center (SBDC) at University of North Florida (UNF)
Sponsors workshops on business start-up basics, a HELP desk and a business library for potential business owners. Certified business analysts meet with business owners at no charge to provide a confidential sounding board and can connect clients with helpful resources, provides management assistance with financial analysis, market analysis, business planning, management audits and more.