...I have a personal mission to help entrepreneurs with their business, growing their business, growing their sales … coincidentally that seems to be the same mission as the Venture Center... I like to work with people of like minds who also have the same mission: to grow businesses.

- Al Lautenslager, Author Guerrilla Marketing in 30 Days

… One of the success factors of a regional economy is to have successful small businesses start up and continue to grow. The Venture Center is critical because it’s showing people who want to develop businesses the path they need to take for success.

- Mary Schmidt, Schmidt Communicates