An Incubator to Accelerate Your Business

At the head of her landscape design and build company, Gravel To Gold in San Diego, which she runs with her husband, Anne-Emilie Gold took part in the Small Business Administration’s THRIVE program, a federal agency initiative. Anne-Emilie graduated from the program in December last year after going through six months of intensive training, both in person and online, designed to help existing small businesses take off. “I needed training as a business owner,” says the Quebec-born landscape designer. “When you are running your own company, you do not have time to step back and reflect on your business as a whole.” The result? New skills and valuable connections with experts and fellow local business leaders. It is a free program available across the United States that is worth spreading the word about!

Originally written and published in French by Agnès Chareton for The Elles Collective Inc., a diverse community of Women entrepreneurs using French as a common language and connected to the World.