Are you ready to start a business?

This assessment tool is designed to help you better understand your readiness for starting a small business. It is simple to use and will take less than five minutes to complete. The tool will prompt you with questions and assist you in evaluating skills, characteristics and experience as they relate to your preparedness for starting a business.

Your responses will be scored automatically when you click the Submit button. This score will be used to develop your assessment profile. Based on your score, you will also receive a statement of Suggested Next Steps, directing you to the most appropriate SBA resources to help improve your business preparedness. These suggested next steps may include free SBA online courses, direct access to online counseling or targeted links to appropriate resources.

Click here to begin the assessment

This is an automated self-assessment tool. SBA is not collecting information, tabulating or utilizing individual visitor's results.