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Hoffman, Carl – Appalachia, 1999
A nonprofit community action agency, BusinesStart, provides business training and small loans to entrepreneurs in 18 rural counties in southwestern Virginia and northeastern Tennessee. The entrepreneurs, many with no previous business experience, cite the agency's basic business training as key to their success. (SV)
Descriptors: Basic Business Education, Disadvantaged, Entrepreneurship, Rural Areas