SOACE 2025
Building CEOs: Empowering Career Coaches to Help Entrepreneurial Students
Presented by: Golden Madume and Kelly Nielsen
Helping students who want to be entrepreneurs can be tricky. Here are some tools and resources to help you guide your students on their entrepreneurial journey:
National (Resources available online to all U.S. residents)
The following links take you to websites that are not affiliated with Florida Atlantic University.
- U.S. Chamber of Commerce - 19 Free Resources for Small Businesses
- Forage - Entrepreneurship and Innovation Job Simulation
- U.S. Small Business Administration - Write Your Business Plan
- Operation Hope - Creating Financial Uplift
- Save the Student - 53 Small Business Ideas
- Coursera - Advance your career with more than 10,000 courses
- IBISWorld - Industry Market Research, Reports, and Statistics
- Inventor and Entrepreneur resources
- How to Fund your Business Idea
Local (Resources that may be available in your city)
- City and County Councils
- Local Chambers of Commerce
- Your State’s Small Business Development Center
- Business Mentoring and Education - www.score.org
- City and County Councils - e.g. www.economiccouncilpbc.org
- Local Chambers of Commerce - e.g. Palm Beach County Chamber of Commerce discover.pbc.gov/pages/chambers-commerce
- Your State’s Small Business Development Center - e.g. www.fau.edu/sbdc
- Your State’s Division of Corporations Business Entity Website - e.g. dos.fl.gov/sunbiz
- Florida Venture Forum - Florida’s largest support and networking organization for entrepreneurs and venture capitalists flventure.org
Institutional (Resources that may be available at your institution)
- Institutional Entrepreneurial Center - e.g. Florida Atlantic Adams Center for Entrepreneurship business.fau.edu/centers/adams-center
- Florida Atlantic Business Pitch Competition business.fau.edu/centers/adams-center/business-plan-competition
- Entrepreneurship focused classes at your institution - e.g. business.fau.edu/images/business/undergraduate/files/ENTM_minorcert.pdf