article thumbnail

How Small Business Development Centers (SBDCs) Can Help Your Business

Up and Running

UW-Madison Small Business Development Center (SBDC) celebrating SBDC Day. Starting a new small business? Looking for some professional consulting to help you think through your business plan or your strategies for growth? Your local Small Business Development Center (SBDC) can help.

article thumbnail

6 Things to Consider Before Entering a Market

Up and Running

For example, the farm and ranch real estate market in Montana is composed of a few large firms and hundreds of mom and pop shops, so it is very fragmented. This can still be done in small business—every one of my businesses was self-funded. Never sell more than 50 percent unless you are preparing to exit the company.

Marketing 111
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

5 Lessons Learned Launching a Startup With No Plan, No Cash, and No MBA

Up and Running

In the summer of 2009, my wife and I caught the entrepreneurial bug and started a company without any prior business experience. We didn’t know anything about small business accounting or finance. We didn’t even know how to write a business plan. We’d never hired anyone.

Startup 119
article thumbnail

The Real Story Of America Is About Small

VC Adventure

The loss of small businesses may be one answer. In research for our upcoming book, we found that small business owners often inhabit the shrinking middle ground of politics in their communities. Now, with his wife, Claire, he owns a guide company in the Bob Marshall Wilderness of Montana. Why is America so divided?

America 92
article thumbnail

2013’s Top 10 Small Towns For Mobile Entrepreneurs

Mike Michalowicz

Wasilla, Alaska is actually more business oriented than most people (including me) realize. It’s also one of six hubs for Alaska’s Small Business Development Centers and the fastest growing city in Alaska. Bozeman, Montana. for doing business in small towns.” New Hope, Pennsylvania.

Mobile 163
article thumbnail

Now Is The Time To Prepare Your Business For A Natural Disaster

YoungUpstarts

Simultaneously, people in Oregon, Montana and Idaho are dealing with forest fires brought on by the driest conditions these states have seen in decades. Once you do get through to them, you should have a long and honest conversation with them about what exactly your business does and does not do on a daily basis.

article thumbnail

Who are the Major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

David Teten

We provide revenue-based funding and business acceleration support to service-based small businesses located outside of major capital markets such as Silicon Valley and New York City.”. “We GSD Capital. “ GSD Capital partners with early-stage SaaS founders to fund growth initiatives.

Revenue 60