Cal Poly CIE Small Business Development Center

To help create jobs and grow our regional economy, the Cal Poly Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship's Small Business Development Center (SBDC) provides entrepreneurs and small businesses with high quality education, consulting, support for innovation, and all of the tools necessary to build successful, sustainable, and scalable businesses.

The SBDC provides no cost professional business advising from over 30 industry experts in marketing, finance & access to capital, IP, and more. Each month we bring in local business professionals who specialize in all aspects of business from accounting to marketing through our open office hours program. the SBDC's intensive schedule of bootcamps, workshops, & events designed to strengthen business and entrepreneurial skills.