Small businesses are the engines of Missouri’s economy. They create jobs, develop breakthrough technologies, create the cultures of our towns and elevate opportunities for the citizens in our state. MISSION MOSourceLink helps build businesses stronger and faster and helps make entrepreneurship easier by being a first-stop, one-stop hub for entrepreneurial resources in your community or across the state. We connect all types of entrepreneurs and business owners—from Missouri’s microenterprises to our high-impact innovation-led companies, in rural and urban communities—to the resources they need to start, grow and accelerate businesses across Missouri. We help them find resources to write their business plan, start a business, develop prototypes and products, find mentors and investors, find financing, explore new markets, develop products and more. WHAT WE DO - Staff a hotline and help desk to answer entrepreneurs' questions and refer entrepreneurs and business owners to the right resource at the right time - Provide entrepreneurs with a vetted database of business-building resources - Host a statewide calendar of business - Publish comprehensive startup and business guides, blogs and success stories on our website to provide education, inspiration and resources ADVANCING ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN MISSOURI MOSourceLink is also working across the 600+ resource network, communities and the state to facilitate collaborations to identify and fill gaps in the entrepreneurial ecosystem. And finally, because we know that what gets measured gets prioritized, we measure entrepreneurial requests and efforts to report on how entrepreneurs, stakeholders, legislators, investors and resource providers are working together to make Missouri the state for innovation between the coasts. When it comes down to it, it’s about visibility and accessibility—MOSourceLink makes sure entrepreneurs and small business owners can find the right resource at the right time.