Ohio SBDC Export Assistance Network at YSU

What Ohio SBDC Export Assistance Network at YSU does

The Ohio SBDC Export Assistance Network at YSU is a host site of the Ohio Small Business Development Center network, located within Youngstown State University's College of Business Administration in Youngstown, Ohio. It is one of the regional nodes of the federally chartered U.S. Small Business Administration SBDC program, which provides no-cost or low-cost export advising, educational programming, and related resources to Ohio-based small businesses seeking to enter or expand in international markets. The unit is staffed by 6 personnel according to the available firmographic data and draws on YSU's academic infrastructure for program delivery; it is not a commercial enterprise and does not sell products or services in a market sense.

Operationally, the entity functions as a public-sector advisory program rather than a business with a product surface or revenue model. The available source material is dominated by the YSU 2026-2027 undergraduate academic catalog, which documents the university's broader course and program offerings but contains only incidental references to the SBDC Export Assistance Network itself. There is no disclosed technology platform, no proprietary product portfolio, no pricing mechanism, no customer list, no headcount trend, no funding history, and no strategic action history for the entity in the data set.

From an investment perspective, the entity does not fit a PE/VC/M&A profile. It is grant-funded through the SBA/state SBDC framework, embedded in a public university, and operates as a service-delivery program rather than a scalable commercial business. Any analytical outputs (moat, AI capability, revenue, customer concentration, growth trajectory) are therefore best read as evidence-of-absence rather than as commercial fundamentals.

Name

Ohio SBDC Export Assistance Network at YSU

Website

https://catalog.ysu.edu

Company type

Private

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

The Ohio SBDC Export Assistance Network at YSU is a publicly funded export advisory program, hosted at Youngstown State University, that provides no-cost export guidance and educational resources to small businesses in Ohio under the federal SBDC mandate.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Small Business Export Advisory Services

NAICS

Educational Support Services (611710)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Export Promotion & Market Access Support (BPADAMAC)

akta.pro secondary industry

Education Systems & Skills Technical Assistance (BPADAEAI)

Keywords

• Export assistance services
• Small business advising
• International market research
• Export training programs
• SBDC consulting

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations

Core offering

The Ohio SBDC Export Assistance Network at YSU provides free export advising, market research, and export training to Ohio small businesses. Operating from Youngstown State University's College of Business Administration, it serves as the northeast Ohio satellite of the statewide Ohio SBDC Export Assistance Network, connecting small businesses with state and federal export resources.

Product overview

Ohio SBDC Export Assistance Network at YSU (Youngstown State University) is a university-based small business development center that provides export assistance services to businesses in Ohio. The organization offers educational programs, advising services, and access to university resources through Youngstown State University's academic infrastructure. The data available pertains to the university's course catalog and academic programs rather than a commercial product portfolio. The SBDC operates within the university's ecosystem but does not offer discrete commercial products as typically understood in a product intelligence context.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Export Advising Services Confidential one-on-one export advising for Ohio small businesses seeking to begin or expand international sales, delivered by SBDC staff at Youngstown State University.
• Export Training and Education Programs Workshops, seminars, and educational programming on export readiness, international market entry, and trade compliance, offered to small businesses in the Ohio SBDC service region.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights1 record

Emerging players

• Small Business Exporters Association: A membership-based association that provides export readiness training, market entry support, and trade mission programming to U.S. small businesses, directly comparable to the educational and advising services the YSU SBDC Export Assistance Network offers.

Broad incumbents

• Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM): EXIM provides export financing and insurance to U.S. small businesses and frequently partners with SBDC export assistance programs; it is a comparable federal export-support institution that the YSU program refers clients to for trade finance.
• U.S. Commercial Service / International Trade Administration: The U.S. Commercial Service, part of the International Trade Administration, is the federal agency supporting U.S. exporters; it often co-delivers export programming with SBDCs, making it a closely aligned federal peer in export assistance.
• U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA): The SBA is the federal parent organization that funds and governs the entire SBDC network; it provides the program framework, funding, and policy direction under which the Ohio SBDC Export Assistance Network at YSU operates.
• Ohio Department of Development (JobsOhio / international trade division): The Ohio Department of Development runs state-level international trade promotion and export assistance programs that overlap with and often co-fund the YSU SBDC Export Assistance Network's mandate to support Ohio small-business exporters.

Direct peers

• SCORE (Service Corps of Retired Executives): SCORE is a sister SBA resource partner providing free small-business mentoring and education, with overlapping advising and educational programming to U.S. small businesses including those interested in exporting; it operates alongside SBDCs in the SBA's resource partner network.
• Ohio Small Business Development Centers (other Ohio SBDC host sites): The Ohio SBDC network operates multiple regional centers hosted at Ohio universities, providing nearly identical small-business advising and export assistance services across the state; the YSU site is one of these regional host centers, making other Ohio SBDC sites the most direct functional peers.

Regional players

• Youngstown/Warren Regional Chamber: The Regional Chamber provides economic development and small-business support services in the same Youngstown/Warren Ohio geography as the YSU SBDC Export Assistance Network, often referring small businesses to the program for export-specific advising.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/ohio-sbdc-export-assistance-network-at-ysu

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Investors

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M&A

Investments

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