Gilberto Laines and Jocabet Cortes, with their daughters, began L&C Garden and Home Care, LLC as a result of seeing an opportunity.
For Gilberto Laines and Jocabet Cortes, entrepreneurship did not begin with a business plan, a loan or even the certainty that they would one day own a business. It began with work.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Laines was laid off from his factory job and began painting houses with a friend. While working on those…
Weekend Ventures brought together a variety of students to learn how to create a business in just three days.
A high school student from Dothan, TROY students, community entrepreneurs and business professionals may not ordinarily find themselves on the same team building a business from scratch.
For one weekend in Troy, they did.
The Alabama Small Business Development Center at Troy University brought Weekend Ventures to Troy Sept. 18-20, challenging participants to move from…
TROY's Small Business Development Center brought together the Grow Southeast Alabama regional economic development coalition and the U.S. SBA.
The Troy University Small Business Development Center (SBDC) recently facilitated a strategic discussion between the Grow Southeast Alabama regional economic development coalition and the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), bringing together economic development professionals to explore new ways to support and strengthen existing industries across southeast Alabama.
The meeting focused on helping local economic developers deepen…
The virtual initiative was developed in response to Gov. Kay Ivey's calls for strengthened economic ties with Mexico.
Building on Alabama’s growing efforts to strengthen economic ties with Mexico, the Troy University Small Business Development Center (SBDC) recently partnered with Tecnológico de Monterrey’s Centro PyME to host a first-of-its-kind international networking initiative connecting entrepreneurs and small businesses from Alabama, Mexico and across the southern United States.
The two-part virtual initiative was developed in…
