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SBTDC at Appalachian State University

Our team of experienced professionals is here to help your small or mid-size business:

Make better, more informed decisions
Access sources of capital and financing
Evaluate and improve your financial performance
Explore new market opportunities
Improve leadership skills and employee performance

Your Local SBTDC

We serve the counties of Alexander, Burke, Caldwell, Catawba, Cleveland, Gaston and Lincoln.

CLIENT SUCCESS

“The biggest thing that [the SBTDC] helped us with was the actual financial plan within the business plan . . . dissecting those numbers and creating those assumptions. We didn’t have historical data; we’d never had a restaurant before. So we had to create a really solid financial plan to be able to approach somebody, whether it was an angel investor or a bank or whoever. We ended up going through a financial institution, and the SBTDC was a huge help, very instrumental in the financial plan for us.”

Ethan Herman, Local Roots & Provisions