Small businesses play a strong role in generating new jobs. Policymakers have been encouraged to find ways to foster and support their development, especially by linking entrepreneurial training to the existing employment and training system. The purpose of this paper is to provide a background and a focus for further discussion of entrepreneurial training in Wisconsin. Programs that have encouraged and/or trained entrepreneurs elsewhere include (1) a program in Great Britain that allows unemployed workers to continue to receive unemployment benefits while establishing businesses; (2) a program in France that allows unemployed workers to take their unemployment benefits in one lump sum to use as capital to start a business; (3) the Women's Economic Development Corporation in Minnesota which has helped nearly 100 women become entrepreneurs since 1984; (4) use of Job Training Partnership Act Title III funds in Ohio and Texas to provide training in entrepreneurship to dislocated workers; and (5) a Wisconsin program that trained 16 economically disadvantaged participants to start their own businesses. A model entrepreneurial training program could focus on individual creation of a business plan with the use of several existing community programs to provide supplemental services and support. Entrepreneurial training can be particularly relevant for professionalizing the skills of the self-employed; the field of family day care is a good example. (The final section summarizes issues surrounding entrepreneurial training in general and those specifically related to day care.) (YLB)