BUZGate.org™ is a leading branded business-to-business resource and referral community and one of the most demographically targeted social networks on the Web serving the interests and needs of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). As a national consortium of government, nonprofit public business assistance agencies, and underwriters of educational content, BUZGate.org provides an easy-to-use robust gateway to business mentors, information, goods and services tailored to supporting small business start-up, growth and profitability.

As a non-commercial, educationally focused community, BUZGate.org provides a reliable, trusted network where users can build knowledge and establish productive business-to-business relationships. Content focuses on educating individuals about thousands of free and low-cost public assistance programs and productivity-enhancing business solutions that exist to support their entrepreneurial progress.

BUZGate.org interactive features enable users to connect with real people in their local communities who will assist them at no charge with issues such as startup, funding, marketing, import/export, regulations, advocacy, and much more. On average, BUZGate.org is routinely connecting millions of entrepreneurs to over 33,000 business mentors, 12,500 business assistance programs, and hundreds of productivity enhancing SMB product and service solutions. Networking between entrepreneurs and government, public and private sector solution providers occurs daily as:

* All individuals access BUZGate.org for free
* All public nonprofit assistance agencies routinely add and update content at no charge
* All private sector product and service solutions are presented in a standardized, educationally-focused Edutorial format that serves to build knowledge and facilitate more informed decision making
* Collectively, these networking activities are driving local, regional and national economic recovery

In essence, BUZGate.org is a one-of-a-kind entrepreneurial community "where all users add value and all users receive value."

Content providers include national small business development icons such as the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), Small Business Development Centers (SBDC), SCORE Counselors to America's Small Business (SCORE), Women's Business Centers (WBC), U.S. Department of Labor, U.S. Department of Rural Development, Procurement Technical Assistance Centers, and micro-finance agencies.

Content partners and other key SMB influence leaders, such as IBM, The World Bank, Key Bank, public utilities, U.S. Senators/Congressmen and economic development agencies, promote awareness and access to BUZGate.org through links, marketing materials and promotional events in order to further promote economic recovery through entrepreneurship in their respective communities.

Regional and state-based BUZGate.org community collaborators include local law firms, accounting firms, financial institutions, telecommunications providers, conference centers, financial advisers, human resource service providers, management consultants, software/hardware suppliers, insurance agencies, web development firms, and other high value business-to-business product and service providers.

BUZGate.org is an initiative of the Knowledge Institute, specialists and social entrepreneurs in entrepreneurial development and educational services. The Knowledge Institute works with Fortune 500, government, nonprofit and small business clients to drive SMB business development and business-to-business transactions.

The term BUZGate is short for Business Utility Zone Gateway:

Buz Bullet Business because it fosters entrepreneurship to drive economic recovery and shared prosperity

Buz Bullet Utility because it adds value to the process of learning about and connecting with entrepreneurial solutions

Buz Bullet Zone because it is a centralized and collaborative entrepreneurial platform available to everyone, everywhere, 24/7 at no charge

Buz Bullet Gateway because it is a value-neutral, non-commercial, non-government, non-corporate educationally-focused resource and referral network that facilitates mutually productive relationship building