2: Competitive Opportunity Gaps

Increase small business success by bridging competitive opportunity gaps facing entrepreneurs

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This strategic goal is intended to benefit those small businesses that deal directly with SBA and its established network of resource partners. The SBA empowers individual entrepreneurs to take advantage of the opportunities the market offers by providing knowledge, skills and technical assistance, access to loans and equity, and procurement opportunities either directly or through its partners. While SBA programs benefit all entrepreneurs seeking its assistance, the Agency places particular emphasis on the preservation or establishment of small business concerns located in urban or rural areas with high proportions of unemployed or low-income individuals or owned by low-income individuals, and other groups that own and control little productive capital because they have limited opportunities for small business ownership such as reservists.

Objective(s):

2.1: Small Business Start-Ups

2.2: Sustainability and Growth

2.3: SCOGS

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