The West Virginia Center for Employee Ownership (“WVCEO”) was created in 2024 to help promote employee ownership in West Virginia through outreach and education. Located in the University of Charleston downtown Innovation Hub, The WVCEO is the 15th state center in the Employee Ownership Expansion Network (“EOX”) and the 23rd...
With the recent opening of the West Virginia Center for Employee Ownership (WVCEO), the network of State Centers for Employee Ownership now numbers 23. That makes fifteen new state centers EOX has helped launch since they were founded in 2019. See the map of State Centers...
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Today's blog is a repost of Mr. Jens-Kristian Kiel's article written for the West Virginia Small Business Development Center's website. To find the original posting of this article, you can visit https://wvsbdc.com/seven-tips-for-marketing-your-small-business-to-the-right-audience/.
Are you aware that West Virginia lags far behind Appalachia, and the nation, in entrepreneurial and start-up activity? In fact, the Kauffman Foundation’s 2017 State Report found that WV ranked last in startup early job creation with a third as many jobs created as the leading state, and below the...
Today's blog is an excerpt from the article Understanding Cybersecurity Risk — Small Business Edition by Andrew S. Baker, president and CEO of Brainwave Consulting Company, LLC. This article can be read in it's unedited entirety on the WV SBDC website, which can be found here.
West Virginia small businesses know a thing or two about “Building a Better America through Entrepreneurship", as nearly 99 percent of businesses in the Mountain State are considered small and they employ nearly half of the private sector workforce. Therefore it was fitting the U.S. Small Business Administration to...
