Us Small Business Administration Launches New Site for Young Entrepreneurs

A Home Business Article Contributed by Elizabeth Fox-Wise

The Us Small Business Administration (Sba) Has Launched a New Site for Teens

The U.S. Small Business Administration has set up a new Web site designed to help budding entrepreneurs start and run their own small businesses.

The site, which is geared towards budding teenage entrepreneurs, can be found at http://www.sba.gov/teens/. It covers the fundamentals of starting a small business from brainstorming to evaluating the feasibility of your idea; developing a well thought out and thorough business plan; learning from successful young entrepreneurs, fundamentals of small business administration, and learning to make good financial decisions

Other Help Available at the Small Business Administration New Site

This Small Business Administration new launch site also allows access to the Small Business Administration entrepreneurial development partners and services. This includes the Small Business Development Centers; SCORE; Women's Business Centers and, the online Small Business Training Network.

These valuable Small Business Administration resources provide both in person and online counseling and training to help you start and grow a small business .

Investigate the site for great sources of information on legal issues you may need to address when starting a small business or find youth organizations working with young entrepreneurs.

Mentoring from people with small business administration expertise can be a rewarding both personally and professionally. This Small Business Administration site provides several links to small business mentoring groups. A mentor is a caring, experienced business person who volunteers to help as your guide. Your mentor can help with everything from focusing your talents to create a successful business to long term small business maintenance and administration.

Some Groups available to provide mentoring service through the Small Business Administration include:

The National Mentoring Partnership - a resource for mentors and mentoring initiatives nationwide.

Teen Coach - This site helps you locate a personal coach.

SCORE - this organization has more that 11, 000 volunteer small business mentors. You can locate SCORE members in your community to meet with them face to face if you wish or you can get email mentoring

Online Business Advisor - this site provides a wealth of free business and administration advice.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of America - this program has a nationwide mentoring program called First Mentors that unites college students with younger students for mentoring.

Why Does the Us Small Business Administration Want to Help Young Entrepreneurs

Small business ownership is becoming more common among Americans and studies indicate that this trend will continue. Since Small Business if vital to the American economy, it stands to reason that resources will be available to help budding entrepreneurs do it right!

Today's Young Americans believe that independent small business ownership is vital to their present and future economic growth. The US Small Business Administration wants to introduce young American's to the concept of small business ownership as a viable career choice, and give them the knowledge base and assistance they will need to make their dreams of small business ownership become a reality.