Start Your Business

The path for a high-growth, high-impact business is rarely a straight line. When you’re ready to turn your innovation into a business, make sure you take the right steps. Our resource partners can help.

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FastTrac®

FastTrac® TechVenture™ helps innovative entrepreneurs learn the business that will push their technology into the marketplace.

• Determine market opportunities and business strategies and pursue them successfully.
• Define your target customers.
• Develop a solid marketing plan.
• Learn to assess and build a top management team.
• Calculate the funding needed at each stage of your business and discover the best ways to access it.
• Learn the importance of protecting your intellectual property through licenses, patents, trademarks, and copyrights.
• Hone your elevator pitch and investor presentation.

Check KCSourceLink’s class calendar to find the next FastTrac seminar.

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These resource partners specialize in helping high-growth companies get off the ground.

Kansas High-Growth Business Services

Enterprise Center of Johnson County

ECJC provides business consulting services, cost-effective office space, and shared resources in an entrepreneurial environment. Since 2000, ECJC companies have included technology, biotechnology, clean energy, and business services companies.

Missouri High-Growth Business Services

Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies and Development at the University of Central Missouri

In addition to a host of business support services, the institute helps high-growth and technology-based businesses with engineering support, advanced manufacturing, and intellectual property research and patent filing.

Small Business & Technology Development Center at the University of Missouri-Kansas City

UMKC’s SBTDC offers confidential one-on-one counseling, access to expertise and educational programs covering a wide-range of issues, including SBIR/STTR grants, feasibility, patents, equity valuation, secondary market research, corporate partnering, production planning, distribution, and access to venture capital, angels, and loans.

Turn your idea into a product. back to top

If you have an idea that you want to turn into a product—or if your company wants to trim your manufacturing processes to open the doors to new business, these resource partners can help.

Mid America Manufacturing Technology Center offers seminars, workshops, and consulting services to help companies implement integrated process improvements, explore technical innovations, and test and develop products.

Missouri Enterprise helps business improve their manufacturing and business processes and their quality management systems.