Web Watch: On-line guide for entrepreneurs in Kentucky
Monday, April 21, 2003
The Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development has launch a new on-line guide for entrepreneurs and small business owners. It represents the beginning of interactive guides (e-Guides) for economic development. (Earlier this year, Wisconsin launched an interactive guide, the Business Wizard, focused on licensing and regulatory requirements.)
Kentucky's guide is designed to help business owners find resources that assist in planning, launching and expanding businesses. The guide starts with two screening questions, "In which county are you located?" and "Are you starting a businesss or are you an existing business?"
The guide also has a very clear goal: to provide the small business owner with the closest, most appropriate person who can assist them. The guide also provides links the other resources that may be helpful.
In the years ahead, we will see business retention and expansion programs -- which are notoriously difficult to manage -- moving to the Web where they can be easily customized. Kentucky's guide is a good start.
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Web Watch: On-line guide for entrepreneurs in Kentucky
