The Angel Capital Education Foundation (ACEF) is a charitable organization devoted to education and research in the field of angel investing, a growing driver of our entrepreneurial economy. Information, education, data, and research analysis is available to investors, entrepreneurs, policy makers, state and local entrepreneurial support professionals, university faculty and students, and others interested in learning more about angel investing.

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Need help with marketing, social media, business plan or strategy? We will connect you with a university consulting teams to carry out a 12-week project to help you solve your needs. MoreMarbles.com is a marketplace that connects businesses and nonprofits with university teams from around the country. In a capstone course, a team of business students and their professor spend all semester carrying out a project for your organization. Tap in to new ideas, industry expertise and 300 hours of student work to help you grow your organization.

The mission of the Small Business Center is to increase the success rate and the number of viable small businesses in Guilford County by providing high quality, readily accessible assistance to prospective and existing small business owners and their employees. We provide a number of seminars, workshops and classes on topics such as Financing Opportunities, Writing a Business Plan, Marketing Strategies and Tactics, and HR issues. We also offer free, confidential one-to-one counseling to help refine your business plan and develop financial projections.

The Central Texas Business Resource Center (the BRC) provides high-quality business counseling, training, and assistance to potential and existing small business owners, including the self-employed.

The USC / Columbia Technology Incubator focuses on helping start fast-growth companies here in the Columbia, SC. We are successful in Economic Development because we focus on small highly technical companies, and then we actively incubate those companies towards fast growth to create high paying jobs.

LivePlan helps you write professional business plans quickly and easily.

This is a community based organization operating in two slums in Nairobi Kenya to restore hope to the hopeless in the two slums. .

The one thing all very successful entrepreneurs have in common is that they all know it starts with the mindset. Take Warren Buffett for example and his investment advise. "The most important investment you can make is in yourself. Very few people get anything like their potential horsepower translated into the actual horsepower of their output in life. Potential exceeds realization for many people…The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be."

One Stop Shop source of Inspiration for music lessons, rehearsal, performance, recording and promotion of musicians. We provide "A Total Music Experience" with Live Music, Open Stage Nights, Workshops, Band Camps all withing a Coffee House setting, with a full mission of providing all the steps of learning, developing and promoting music and the arts. Additionally, we provide a family friendly community gathering place for lovers of music and the arts.

The Zazida Institute of Entrepreneurship is an Institute of Higher Learning dedicated to developing high impact Entrepreneurs in Africa, thus creating new wealth and jobs and promoting economic development in African economies.