Creating an entrepreneurial community in Chelsea
Entrepreneurs are starting to get a helping hand in Chelsea with business counseling and resource assistance.Excerpt:The Chelsea area has long been a place where aspiring artists, industrious farmers and small businesses prosper, but a group of somewhat unlikely partners might help improve the success rates among these groups or those thinking of starting a business. The Chelsea District Library, The Chelsea Area Chamber of Commerce, The Food System Economic Partnership (FESP), The Michigan Small Business and Technology Development Center (SBTDC) – Region 12, and Washtenaw Community College (WCC) have all come together to offer business counseling, business research services and resource assistance – all for free at the Chelsea District Library.”The library is already the place people go for information,” says Bill Harmer, head adult services librarian. “It’s such a natural fit to extend our service more directly to the small business community.” Read the rest of the story here.
Entrepreneurs are starting to get a helping hand in Chelsea with business counseling and resource assistance.
Excerpt:
The Chelsea area has long been a place where aspiring artists, industrious farmers and small businesses prosper, but a group of somewhat unlikely partners might help improve the success rates among these groups or those thinking of starting a business.
The Chelsea District Library, The Chelsea Area Chamber of Commerce, The Food System Economic Partnership (FESP), The Michigan Small Business and Technology Development Center (SBTDC) – Region 12, and Washtenaw Community College (WCC) have all come together to offer business counseling, business research services and resource assistance – all for free at the Chelsea District Library.
“The library is already the place people go for information,” says Bill Harmer, head adult services librarian. “It’s such a natural fit to extend our service more directly to the small business community.”
Read the rest of the story here.
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