UCF Small Business Development Center

Small Business Resources

UCF Small Business Development Center "serves an eight-county area that includes Brevard, Flagler, Lake, Orange, Osceola, Seminole, Sumter and Volusia counties."

Counseling - Certified Business Analysts will help you develop:
- Business Plans
- Marketing Plans
- Feasibility Studies
- Market Research
- Loan Proposals
- Accounting Systems
- Personnel Plans
- Employee Manuals
- Strategic Plans
Areas of Assistance
- Accounting: asset management, record keeping systems and procedures
- Finance: ratio analysis, breakeven analysis, financial projections and business valuation
- Marketing: pricing, advertising & promotion, marketing planning, market research and exporting
- Operations: production & inventory control, project management, risk management and energy conservation
- New Venture Planning: start-up information, feasibility analysis, business planning and general business consulting
- Technical Assistance: preliminary patent searches, patent, copyright & trademark, and technology transfer & SBIR/STTR
Seminars
- Basic Tools Seminar Series
- Specialty Tools Seminar Series
- Government Contracting Seminar Series
- Strategic Tools Seminar Series

Advisory Board Council Program "funded by the Orange County Government, acts a matchmaker between established businesses and area professionals to create personalized advisory boards. The program is offered to businesses at no cost who have at least two years experience, $500k in revenue, and eight employees or more."