BizStarts Connect

BizStarts Connect's mission is connect all entrepreneurs with the best possible resources through an online website, face-to-face networking events, and BizStarts' service providers.

Online Connections

Our website, bizstartsmilwaukee.com, contains a comprehensive Resource Center with documents, articles, templates, and helpful links in all aspect of business creation. It links entrepreneurs to Service Providers by topic and provides a Calendar of BizStarts service provider events and classes in all seven counties.

With BizStarts, for the first time an entrepreneur in southeastern Wisconsin has a one-stop website to find the right information and connections to move the entrepreneur's idea forward and create a successful business.

Networking Connections

"There's nothing that can fully replace good ol' face-to-face." The importance of networking cannot be understated, and as part of our mission to nurture a more entrepreneurial culture, BizStarts provides opportunities for people to get together, bounce ideas off each other, uncover ways of working together, and helping each other find solutions to challenges.

BizStarts hosts quarterly "Inspirational Entrepreneur" events, where successful entrepreneurs who have started companies share their stories; plenty of networking happens both before and after. Attendes include entrepreneurs, service providers, sponsors and investors – all interested in helping connect entrepreneurs with the best possible resources.

In addition to BizStarts-created events, BizStarts works with other groups to help entrepreneurs connect to resources, including:

Racine's "Launch Box"

The Racine Economic Development Corporation offers resources to entrepreneurs looking to start a variety of business in the Racine area. Read more about the Launch Box here.