I approached 'em once years ago., Useless hardly says it.
But the entity may be more aggressive and active where you are.

SCORE is very uneven across the country but, having been to two good chapters, I found their advice and help was the turning point for my business. The SBA, not so much for me. Your mileage may vary.

The SBA where I am is not very helpful at all. Mostly it's like a retirement club for older local businesspeople who sold or closed their shops.

I've had decent experience with them. I found that you have to search around a bit through their catalogue of coaches before finding ones that you gel with and will give thorough and good advice. But, it didn't take that much looking and contacting of their coaches before I got ahold of a couple really informative gents. I've not gone to a meeting/seminar of theirs though. They don't seem too badly priced, but as a new business owner, I was interested in several of the topics; And that adds up.

Maybe I just totally missed the local chapter, but seems like the closest location to even go to the seminars (from Los Angeles) is San Diego. Which is about a 3 hr hike.

I'd like to establish something in Los Angeles that performs the function of networking and learning from other business owners, but for a much lesser cost. I put this up for suggestion in a tribe-a-doo that I just posted ("female business owners"). What yall think?

My general experience with SCORE and SBA is that you will get "some" good information -- but most of what I ever learned from them I either already knew from personal experience OR I found on line.