Business Support & Resources

Small Business Support Hub (SBSH)

Through the Small Business Support Hub Grant, funded by the Michigan Economic Development Corporation, TechTown Detroit, ProsperUs Detroit, Eastern Market Partnership, Michigan SBDC, and BUILD Institute have partnered to expand our collective free resources and events to all of Wayne County.

The Hub offers free, low-cost resources and invaluable business insights to help start, scale, and grow your business. Resources include in-person and virtual workshops, cohort-based training, coaching with industry experts and business strategists, ecosystem networking events, and more.

Small Business Suport Hub Partners

BUILD Institute

What does BUILD Institute Do?

BUILD Institute honors the whole person by providing holistic support through education, personal and professional development, and start-up + grow resources, within a supportive, engaged, connected community. We adapt to the changing environment of the business landscape, advance equitable entrepreneurship, and foster economic mobility. Since 2012, BUILD has enhanced the trajectory of success for microentrepreneurs in metro Detroit and beyond.

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Co.Starters is a 10-week business development program designed for aspiring entrepreneurs to implement ideas and turn a passion into a sustainable and thriving small business. During Co.Starters, you’ll develop and fine-tune your business idea, building models based on your assumptions, tweaking your next steps through real-time customer feedback, learning valuable management and marketing skills, and receiving constructive feedback from advisers, peers, and local businesses.

BUILD Basics is a core eight-week business and project planning class designed for aspiring and established entrepreneurs. Classes are taught by local experts and cover all the basics of starting a business – from licensing to financial literacy, market research to cash flow and more. You’ll leave the class with a completed business plan, a cohort of fellow entrepreneurs in Detroit, and the knowledge and confidence to take your idea to the next level.

Eastern Market Partnership

What does Eastern Market Do?

Eastern Market Partnership’s mission is to manage operations, develop programs, build facilities, and provide critical infrastructure to:

  • Make Detroit happier by strengthening the Eastern Market District as a great place.
  • Make Detroit wealthier by fortifying the food sector as a pillar of regional economic growth.
  • Make Detroit healthier by increasing the consumption of healthy, green, affordable, and fair food.
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ServSafe is a food and beverage safety training and certificate program for anyone working in the food industry. The ServSafe Manager Certification is a five-year certification and verifies that a manager or person-in-charge has sufficient food safety knowledge to protect the public from

Become licensed through the Michigan Dept of Agriculture and Rural Development (MDARD), Wayne County, and the city of Detroit. Learn about health department regulations, kitchen etiquette, standard operating procedures, best practices, and food safety protocols.

A six-week workshop series designed to provide the fundamentals and strong foundation for a consumer-packaged goods or foodservice-based business.

A six-week workshop series designed to provide in-depth insights into the unique challenges and strategies involved in scaling a consumer-packaged goods foodservice-based business.

This six-week program offers a unique opportunity to “drop in” to any classes that pique your interest. Whether you are a seasoned entrepreneur or just starting your food business journey, these workshops offer a wealth of knowledge and practical techniques that you can immediately implement in your business.

Michigan SBDC

What does Michigan SBDC Do?

Since 1983, the Michigan Small Business Development Center (SBDC) has been a statewide small business support organization that provides expert consulting, business education, market research, and technology commercialization to new and existing businesses. Eastern Michigan University locally hosts the MI SBDC’s Southeast Michigan Regional Center and serves small businesses in Macomb, Oakland, and Wayne counties.

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Designed to to help businesses launch, grow, and transition. Assistance with business plan development, marketing strategies, and financi

Built to offer the opportunity to learn more about running and growing your business. From securing financing to writing a business plan and more, our online library is full of live and on-demand webinars to help you on your schedule.

We offer no-cost secondary market research to help you better understand and reach your target audience. Our market research includes industry reports, demographics, consumer spending, traffic counts, social media audits, search engine optimization reports, to name a few.

ProsperUs Detroit

What does PropserUs Do?

ProsperUs collaborates with entrepreneurs and trusted community connectors to foster business launch, growth, and sustainability. We provide radically supportive and culturally competent entrepreneurship training, financial coaching, business services, and capital because we believe neighbors best know what their communities need.

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We offer:

  • Business 101 Training
  • Entrepreneur Training
  • Business Services (TA projects and coaching)
  • Personal Financial Coaching
  • Capital Access Coaching

Where should you start?

We offer Discovery Sessions, which are one-on-one meetings that walk you through both TechTown's offerings and our partner offerings above.

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