MOSourceLink is a guide to entrepreneurship in Missouri that helps aspiring startups and established businesses find the right business resources to start, scale or accelerate.

MOSourceLink

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. 


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"Well, S***." 

That's one of Ashley Raetz's best-selling signs. See how her business RiOak started small and has grown into a juggernaut that's helping her community and other small businesses owners in the Missouri town of Cole Camp: 

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We hope there are some fireworks this year for your business. Happy Fourth of July to you and yours from all of us here at MOSourceLink!

If you build it, they will come. Music lovers Parker Bond and Travis Tyson set out to open Spectrum Record Lounge, Cape Girardeau's first business of its kind. See how Old Town Cape, Inc. helped them clear hurdles to open their dream business.
 
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Did you know that Missouri startups create 81% of all new jobs in the state? Explore more amazing findings about startups and their impact in the latest MOSourceLink "Show Me Jobs" report: 

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