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Welcome to the Entrepreneurial Center

Your Business. Your Vision. Our Expertise.


The Entrepreneurial Center provides hands-on coaching and business training for new and expanding small businesses, as well as aspiring entrepreneurs.

Calendar of Upcoming Events and WorkshopsMinimize risks. Maximize results.

EC provides cost-effective, high quality services that enable businesses to compete and prosper in the current marketplace. Practical resources and tools are offered through:
  • One-on-one business advising 
  • Seminars
  • Roundtables
  • Professional development events

Learn to act and respond quickly to an ever-changing economic climate.
The EC expert team of consultants and resource partners provide customized services to help businesses:

  • Develop and implement marketing, business and financial plans
  • Identify capital needs and access financing programs
  • Improve cash flow and financial management
  • Grow sales and reach new markets through exporting and government contracts
  • Streamline operations by utilizing business software
  • Gain confidence in making decisions and managing risks in business operations

Contact us today to speak with a business advisor!

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Funded in part through a cooperative agreement with the  U.S. Small Business
Administration.
 

The City of Hartford partially funds the Entrepreneurial Center.

  Hartford Small Business
  Technical Assistance Program
  is funded in part with
  Community Development
  Block Grant funds allocated
  to University of Hartford's 
  Entrepreneurial Center by
  the City of Hartford.

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 Connecticut State Department of  
 Economic and Community
 Development
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"I stumbled through running a business . . .

for two years, figuring that being a great photographer was all there was to it. After I realized how mistaken I was, I took the business planning course at the Entrepreneurial Center and learned a million things I didn't know about the financial and organizational side of solo entrepreneurship . . ." Shana Sureck of Shana Sureck Photography


EC in the News

"The Department of Economic and Community Development provides funding to programs such as The Entrepreneurial Center in Hartford to assist women-owned small businesses . . . "


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