Starting Your Own Business

This year, in partnership with the Sacramento Metro Chamber

About the Office of Small Business (OSB)

About The Emerging and Small Business Development (ESBD) Program

Major Program Components

Certification

Finding A Vendor

Contracting Opportunities

Starting Your Own Business

Small Business Development and Employment Advisory Board

Some files on this page

require Adobe Acrobat Reader

Picture of a mailbox and link to Contact Us Page

So You Want to Start Your Own Business . . .

While the City of Sacramento's Office of Small Business Development is not involved in actual business startups, here are some general informational links on "How To . . . . ."

Things You Need to do to do Business in Sacramento . . .

First and foremost......"How To Do Business In The City Of Sacramento" - a joint effort of the Economic Development Department and the Office of Small Business Development, based on recommendations made by the Small Business Development and Employment Advisory Board.

And then check out some of the following links . . .

CCH's Business Owner's Toolkit
City of Sacramento - Doing Business in Sacramento
City of Sacramento - Neighborhood Service Department
Licenses, Permits, Fictitious Business Name (dba) Statements; Office in the Home; that sort of thing
Sacramento County Business Environmental Resource Center (BERC)
Sacramento County - Business License Section
Small Business Development Center, San Joaquin Delta College -
"How to Start a Business" "Como Iniciar un Negocio"
U. S. Small Business Administration's Small Business Startup Kit

And Some General References and Resources . . .

Business Information Centers
     California Employment Development Department (EDD)
     Downtown Sacramento Partnership
Greater Sacramento Small Business Development Center (SBDC)
     Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
     McGeorge School of Law
     Opening Doors, Inc. (formerly M icroenterprise Assistance Program)
     Secretary of State's Business Portal - Starting a Business
     Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE) - Sacramento
     Small Business Association (SBA) - Sacramento
     Small Business Association's Online Women's Business Center

Chambers of Commerce . . .

Indus Valley Chamber of Commerce (916) 275-5453, (916) 399-9111, or
          (916) 802-5776
     North Sacramento Chamber of Commerce
     Sacramento Asian-Pacific Chamber
     Sacramento Black Chamber
     Sacramento Filipino-American Chamber of Commerce (916) 691-6642
     Sacramento Hispanic Chamber
     Sacramento Metropolitan Chamber
     South Sacramento/Greenhaven Chamber

Business Learning Opportunities . . .

Business Information Centers
    California Capital EnterFund "STRIVE" Program - Call (916) 442-1729;
        Fax (916) 442-7852
   Federal Technology Center (FTC) - Procurement Technical Assistance
            Center (PTAC)
     Los Rios Community College District
     Pacific Gas & Electric's Energy Training Center (Stockton)
     SBA's Small Business Classroom - On-Line
     Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE) - Sacramento
     The Learning Exchange
     Your Business Taxes - Educational Seminars

Financing Options . . .

California Capital EnterFund - Call (916) 442-1729;
        Fax (916) 442-7852
California Technology, Trade and Commerce Agency
     Consumer Credit Counseling Service of the Sacramento Valley
     Grow Sacramento Fund
     Sacramento Angels
     SBA - Financing Your Business

Bids, Bidding, Contracting, Registry, and Similar Opportunities . . .

Capitol Area Development Authority (CADA)
   County of Sacramento
    Northern California World Trade Center
     Sacramento Housing & Redevelopment Agency (SHRA)
     Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District
     Sacramento Regional Transit District
     Secretary of State's Business Trade Registry
     Small Business Administration
     State of California, Department of General Services, Procurement Division
     US Army Corps of Engineers

Business Associations . . .

Latin Business Association
     National Association for Female Executives (NAFE)
     National Association of Minority Contractors (NAMC)
     The American Small Business Association (ASBA)

Now that you have your business up and running, here are some sites you might want to check into for additional information...

Business Environmental Resource Center
Golden State Builders' Exchanges
McClellan Technology Incubator

North State Building Industry Association (BIA)
     Sacramento Builders' Exchange
   Sacramento Small Business.com
     SacSites
     Pacific Gas & Electric's Small Business Tool Kit (to help small firms save energy)

And . . . An idea whose time has come . . .

California Materials Exchange (CalMAX)

Note: Links to Internet sites maintained by other organizations or agencies are provided by us for educational and informational purposes only. Any such link does not constitute an expressed or implied endorsement of any organization, view, opinion, publication, product, or service.
Please report broken links to us.

Last Updated 12/27/2006 3:48 PM