Local Business Assistance & Resources
Starting, selling or improving a business? Here are resources and contacts that can help.
Small Business Development Centers
- Small Business Development Center - Southwest Community Action Program (SWCAP) - Contact Dave Vobora at (608) 935-2326
- Southwest Small Business Development Center - UW/Platteville (SBDC) Contact the SBDC at (608) 342-1038 or E-Mail: swsbdc@uwplatt.edu
- UW Extension Small Business Development Centers - Wisconsin (SBDC)
Small Business Administration
- Small Business Administration (SBA) Home Page
- Expanding a Business (SBA information)
- Financing a Business (SBA information)
- Starting a Business (SBA information)
- Writing Your Business Plan (SBA information)
Business Resources
- Access Dubuque Jobs, Dubuque, Iowa
- Alliant Energy
- Boscobel Economic Development - Ray Saint, P.O. Box 83, Boscobel, WI 53805, 608-485-1056, E-mail: saintcom@mwt.net
- Business Loans and Technical Assistance (Impact 7)
- Fennimore Economic & Industrial Development - Linda Parrish, Promotions Coordinator, 850 Lincoln Avenue, Fennimore, WI 53809 608-822-3599 or 1-800-822-1131 (O)
- Forward Wisconsin
- Northeast Iowa Community College - Calmar, Iowa
- Platteville Area Industrial Development - George Kreuger, Executive Director, P.O. Box 252, Platteville, WI 53818 Phone (608)348-3050
- Platteville Main Street Program - Contact Program Manager at (608) 348-4505 or E-Mail: pvmainst@yahoo.com
- SCORE Business/Entrepreneur Counselors, Platteville
- Solid & Hazardous Waste Education Center (SHWEC)
- Southwest Wisconsin Job Centers
- Southwest Wisconsin Technical College (SWTC) - Fennimore. Contact Vicki Olds at (608) 822-3262 ext.2317 or E-Mail: volds@swtc.edu
- Southwestern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission
- University of Wisconsin - Platteville - Dr. Duane Ford, Dean, School of Business Industry, Life Sciences and Agriculture, University of Wisconsin-Platteville, 1 University Plaza, Platteville, WI 53818, (608)342-1547
- Wisconsin Entrepreneurs' Network (WEN)
- Wisconsin Innovation Service Center (WISC) - Assistance with inventions & new products
- Wisconsin Manufacturing Extension Program (WMEP) - Contact Brian Fairbrother at E-Mail: bfair@execpc.com
