Laura Fine

A dream team of student entrepreneurs from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock has won two of the top honors at the Arkansas Governor’s Cup Collegiate Business Plan Competition, a statewide business plan competition for college and graduate students sponsored by Arkansas Capital Corporation.  

Small businesses are ringing up sales and growing with help from the UA Little Rock-based Arkansas Small Business and Technology Development Center (ASBTDC).

The Arkansas Small Business and Technology Development Center (ASBTDC) at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock has received a $125,000 grant to assist innovative, technology-driven small businesses. 

The Little Rock Technology Park will host three free upcoming Arkansas Small Business and Technology Development Center events for prospective entrepreneurs.

Women who are looking to start their own technology-based companies can hear from fellow women excelling in research, innovation and business at “accelHERate,” a free forum presented by the Arkansas Small Business and Technology Development Center.

From restaurants and coffee shops to breweries and bakeries, the Arkansas Small Business and Technology Development Center is looking to boost food and beverage businesses in four central Arkansas counties this year.

Small businesses in rural communities face the one-two punch of dwindling population and online competition. 

A University of Arkansas at Little Rock-based center recently received $200,000 to support innovative small businesses. 

A 27-year veteran of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock’s Arkansas Small Business and Technology Development Center will become the program’s new leader in January.