Learn about the Southwest Louisiana Entrepreneurial and Economical Development (SEED) Center and its benefits.

2. Mission Statement
 The mission of the SEED Center Business
Incubator is to serve the 5 parish region as
an economic catalyst to facilitate the
development and sustainability of early
stage firms, and existing business
ventures.

3. What is a Business Incubator?
A support process that accelerates the
successful development of start-up and
fledging companies by providing an array of
targeted resources and services.
Historically, 87% of incubator graduates are
still in business after 5 years.

4. SEED Center Project Funding
$8 million - City of Lake Charles, Calcasieu
Parish Police Jury, Louisiana Recovery
Authority
Land - McNeese State University
$1 million - SWLA Economic Development
Alliance
$3.9 million - Federal E.D.A Grant

5. Facility Size and Configuration
30 Business Incubator
14 single offices
8 two-office suites
2 three office suites
2 labs
4 workshops

6. DiSC by Inscape
Transform individuals, teams and organizations and
realize greater success.
 Certified Coaching Program
 Discover how your DiSC Style affects your
workplace and business relationships. Explore
your priorities.
 Understanding other DiSC Styles and what works
with each DiSC style.
 Create strategies and action plan build more
effective relationships

7. Cooperative Endeavor

8. Pre-Incubation/Commercialization Program
Wendy Kennedy Program
 Program to access the incubation readiness of
entrepreneurs, and their ideas.
 Entrepreneurs test and validate the robustness
of their business concept or business model.
 This program is widely used in business
incubators around the world.

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10. Young Entrepreneurs
Academy
 Students in grades 6th – 12th
 Founded in 2004 at University of Rochester
 100% of YEA graduates graduate high school
on time
 19% of YEA graduates start second business
 50% of YEA graduates continue business for
1 year +
 42% of YEA students matriculate to local
college