Starting a business involves planning, making key financial decisions and completing a series of legal activities like conducting market research, registering your business with the State, filing for a tax ID number and more. This can seem scary to the new business owner, but it doesn’t have to be. The Small Business Development Center at Kent State University at Tuscarawas (SBDC) is your local connection to a network of centers across Ohio and the nation that provide most, if not all, of the necessary resources you’ll need to get your start-up company off the ground and growing into a profitable organization. Here in our local office, we give you the assistance you need to move through all stages of business development - from your idea, through start-up, development and into growth and expansion. We work hard to maximize and leverage available financial and other resources that provide support and assistance to individual entrepreneurs for a successful outcome. So now that you know, let’s talk!