Entrepreneurship Training

Entrepreneurs are people who can always see an opportunity.  Entrepreneurs are found in every conceivable business sector and industry, every age group and geographic region. The economic activity of the future will be concentrated in regions where entrepreneurs who create and grow enterprises can easily access the education and assistance they need.

Entrepreneurship training is designed to teach you the skills and knowledge that you need before embarking on a new business venture. While these programs cannot guarantee business success, an investment in entrepreneurship training will ensure that you are prepared for the future.

Youth Entrepreneurship Training

• NC REAL is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping bring entrepreneurship and small business creation to North Carolina. 

• Junior Achievement uses hands-on experiences to help young people understand the economics of life.

• North Carolina 4-H Youth Development lets young people “Learn by Doing” by participating in projects where they develop essential life and business skills.

Adult Entrepreneurship Training

• The Council for Entrepreneurial Development identifies, enables and promotes high growth, high impact entrepreneurial companies and accelerates the entrepreneurial culture of the Research Triangle and North Carolina.

• Fast Trac is a comprehensive entrepreneurship-educational program that provides entrepreneurs with business insights, leadership skills and professional networking connections so they are prepared to create a new business or expand an existing enterprise.

• NxLeveL Entrepreneurial Training Programs are practical, hands-on business development courses designed to help entrepreneurs advance their skills in starting, growing, and managing their business.

• Appalachian State University’s Center for Entrepreneurship provides opportunities to learn about entrepreneurship through expanded educational offerings and experiences where students can interact with entrepreneurial organizations in the region and around the world. 

• The East Carolina University Small Business Institute Program is an outreach program sponsored by the ECU School of Business that offers specialized, on-site management assistance to small business owners while providing senior level and graduate business students with valuable practical experiences.

• The Elizabeth City State University Center for Entrepreneurship provides a challenging and supportive environment to prepare students for knowledgeable, responsible participation and leadership in society.

• The Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill offers a wide range of entrepreneurship-related courses including management courses and extracurricular programs. 

• The Wake Forest University Babcock Graduate School of Management’s Angell Center for Entrepreneurship can help your business grow and prosper, whether you are starting a venture, exploring new horizons for an established, mid-sized firm or looking for ways to strengthen a family business.

• Western Carolina University’s College of Business offers the first Master of Entrepreneurship in the University of North Carolina System and the United States online, and one of only six in the world at this time.

• North Carolina A&T University promotes and fosters entrepreneurship as a career option.

• North Carolina State University provides the citizens of North Carolina high quality education in accounting, business management and economics, produces distinguished research and publications, and offers high quality executive education and outreach programs.

• The Small Business Center Network provides a wide variety of workshops and courses to help small business be successful including How to Start a Business, How to Write a Business Plan, Financing a Business, Marketing for Success, Recordkeeping and Taxes.

• Good Work’s Building Your Business™ training is an 18-hour, six-week participatory and interactive business skills training for small business and nonprofit entrepreneurs that focuses on retail and service businesses, child care businesses, construction trades businesses, and nonprofit enterprises.

• The HandMade Institute offers a series of training products and custom consultations in areas such as agricultural tourism, attraction development and management, craft development and marketing, creative economic development practices, cultural heritage tourism, retail marketing and small town revitalization.

• Women's Business Centers (WBCs) form a national network of more than 80 educational centers designed to assist women in starting and growing small businesses. WBCs help to level the playing field for women entrepreneurs, who still face unique obstacles in the world of business.

• The Women’s Center of Fayetteville assists entrepreneurs in developing and enhancing their business skills and encouraging the exchange of information through one-on-one counseling, mentoring and networking opportunities with other area entrepreneurs, credit and loan counseling and informative workshops.

• The NC e-Authority provides technological and entrepreneurship hubs within rural communities. These centers offer free internet service and fee-based business services to local nonprofits and businesses including employee training, office space, technology expertise and business advice.