Welcome to the CWE Community! We are so glad you are here.

We know that entrepreneurship can be exciting, challenging, scary, thrilling, happy-making, lonely, and a way to build community all at the same time! We are a community of business owners, educators, experts, friends, shoulders to cry on, and people who have been there. We are here to support you as you grow your business to be exactly what you want it to be. Your dream may be a side-hustle to pay for an annual vacation, a multi-million-dollar business, or somewhere in between. Wherever your dream lands, CWE is here to support you.

Please take our Entrepreneurship Phase Assessment to determine your current phase of entrepreneurship and learn how best to utilize CWE’s resources at this time. Feel free to come back and take this assessment as you grow as a business owner to reassess and realign!

While you take the assessment, keep the following things in mind:

Don’t overthink it. Pick whichever answer calls to you.
There are no wrong answers.
Nothing is set in stone.
Your answers here (and everything you do with CWE) are completely confidential.

At the end of this assessment, you will know your current phase of entrepreneurship & how best to use CWE’s resources. If you feel stuck after the assessment, please contact your home Center. You can find their information here.

If you are curious about how we define the phases of entrepreneurship, please find all the phases here.

Entrepreneurship Phase Assessment

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Your Business Name (if applicable)

Are you military-service connected?

(Veteran // Active Miliary // Active Reservist // Active National Guard // Military Spouse // Child of a military connected person)

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Your Home Center Eastern Massachusetts (Essex, Barnstable, Bristol, Suffolk, Dukes, Norfolk, Middlesex, Nantucket, and Plymouth counties)Central Massachusetts (Berkshire, Franklin, Hampshire, Springfield, and Worcester counties)New HampshireVermontRhode IslandNone of the above – Out of Service Area

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What best describes you? I am interested in starting a business but am not sure what I want to doI have a business idea, but have not made any salesI have a side business or have been making informal sales and am ready to take it to the next levelI want to open a franchiseI have an existing businessI want to buy a businessI want to make an exit plan for my business (sell your business, pass to family members, close business etc.)I am not interested in starting a businessI want to start a non-profit

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Welcome to the CWE Community! We are so glad you are here.

Entrepreneurship Phase Assessment