Small Business Development

Virginia Beach is a diverse community and proudly serves as home to a wide variety of people and businesses. The City is home to more than 30 percent of all women and minority-owned companies and one of every three start-ups in the region. 

Virginia Beach is proud of the numerous accomplishments of the SWaM community. For the past eight years the city has been home to the Hampton Roads Chamber’s small business of the year. In addition, Virginia Beach companies are routinely named to the Chamber’s Top Small Business to Watch list and Inc 5000 list. 

This book provides an in depth overview of the opportunities and assets available to those looking to open or expand a small business in Virginia’s most populous city.