FLORIDA SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTER AT IRSC
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Small businesses learn about assistance and resource
programs at college through radio show and podcast
Tom Kindred, right, regional director for Florida SBDC at IRSC, interviews Melissa Roberts, managing director of operations, Jim Moran Institute, and Michael
Myhre, CEO for the Florida SBDC Network, during the 2019 Small Business Leadership Conference in Orlando.
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Want to be in the know about Treasure
Coast business? Then tune in to WPSL and
WSTU for Startup Talk, a weekly business
talk show entering its fifth year of broadcasting.
Startup Talk has broadcast more than
175 live episodes of the program. The
show was designed and created to
promote and create awareness regarding
the business assistance and resource
programs available at Indian River State
College under the Dan K. Richardson
Entrepreneurship Development Institute.
Through the EDI, IRSC has built an innovative
business support program
that provides real value to the research
coast marketplace. The EDI consists of
the Florida Small Business Development
Center, the Business Incubation Program,
and the Corporate and Community Training
Institute, which collaborates with and
leverages the assets of the IRSC School
of Business.
Whether it is providing entrepreneurial
education, corporate training or offering
business assistance to early stage or mature
firms, the EDI is a powerful, one-stop
shop for business resources, assistance
and training that is truly engaged at every
stage of enterprise.
“Having owned and operated a Treasure
Coast business for over 20 years, I quickly
recognized the value and powerful business
assistance the Florida SBDC and the
other EDI programs could bring to the
marketplace,” says Tom Kindred, regional
director of Florida SBDC at IRSC. “I wanted
to ensure that every business owner was
aware of the business assistance programs
and resources available here at IRSC, so I
immediately began to develop a plan to
promote the programs.”
BY ROBERT LANE
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