MySBA Learning
A free learning platform for entrepreneurs.
MySBA Learning is divided into major topics called Journeys, developed by experts in entrepreneurship. Choose any journey to start, skip the ones you already know.
Within each Journey, you'll find Excursions with the tools you need to master a topic. Each excursion includes a time estimate for completion. You're the boss of when and how to apply these tools to your business.
Things you can explore within excursions:
- Exercises & Tools: Learn and apply growth practices to your business.
- Fireside Chats: Learn from experts about how entrepreneurs grow their businesses.
- Infographics: Gain a snapshot view of growth concepts.
- Success Stories: Be inspired by stories from real-world entrepreneurs.
- Discussion Guides: Use questions to stimulate thinking for you, your advisors or team.
- Videos: Grasp key concepts in just minutes.
- Key Insights: Understand key topics to support your business growth.
- Self-Assessments: Benchmark your current practices through self-focused inventories.
Journeys
- Journey 1: Disaster & Economic Recovery - Prepare for a disaster by understanding the potential impacts and forming a plan for your business.
- Journey 2: Strategic Marketing - Explore specific planning techniques, strategies and tactics to make your business stand out in a sea of competition.
- Journey 3: Your People - Recruit, hire, and retain the right people with these smart strategies.
- Journey 4: Your Business Financial Strategy - Sharpen your financial skills with data-driven decisions and projections using these tools.
- Journey 5: Access to Capital - Understand how to secure the appropriate funding for your business, including forms of debt and equity.
- Journey 6: Government Contracting - Identify government contracting opportunities suited to your business and prepare to pursue those opportunities.
- Journey 7: Partnerships - Seek out, create and maintain partnerships that drive business growth.
- Journey 8: Entrepreneurial Leadership - Position your business for growth by building and refining your leadership skills.
- Journey 9: Managing Sales - Outline strategies to build and strengthen your sales process and sales team.
- Journey 10: Growing Globally - Discover the potential ways of taking your business global and plan your path for expanding into international markets.
- Journey 11: Opportunity and Innovation - Identify and capitalize on new growth opportunities, and drive innovation that aligns with customer needs.
- Journey 12: Opportunity Assessment - Learn strategies to evaluate new opportunities for business growth from a wide-angle lens.
- Journey 13: Military Spouse Pathway to Business - Military spouses will receive step-by-step guidance on how to own or expand a business with Pathway to Business.
- Journey 14: SBA Mentor-Protégé Program Tutorial - Learn more about the Mentor-Protégé Program.