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10 Reasons You Don’t Qualify for an SBA Disaster Loan

Up and Running

Maintaining your business through the coronavirus crisis has likely led you to cut costs, revise your sales projections, and potentially seek out a loan to help you stay afloat. Most banks will not issue traditional SBA loans to brand new businesses. Moreover, the collateral that you provide is split between the SBA and the bank.

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Is Life Insurance Required For Your SBA Loan Approval?

YoungUpstarts

When applying for a loan through the Small Business Administration (SBA), you have to meet some basic qualifications. For example, you need excellent credit , $5 million or less in annual revenue, and a net worth equal to or less than $15 million. Why is life insurance required to get an SBA loan? Applying for an SBA loan?

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5 Creative Ways To Finance Your Small Business When Revenue Is Low

The Startup Magazine

In a perfect world, small businesses would have an endless stream of revenue coming in and there wouldn’t be need to worry about financing. Sometimes businesses have to get creative when it comes to their small business financing, especially when revenue is low. However, we all know that’s not the case.

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Circular Advice from the SBA

VC Adventure

As I wrote about at the beginning of the week, the SBA has made a mess of the Payroll Protection Program. Yes, there are some challenges to parts of the structure of the program , but I was referring in that post to the SBAs implementation of the program and the varied guidance they’ve given since the program’s launch.

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8 Essentials To Qualify Your Startup For A Bank Loan

Startup Professionals Musings

The failure rate is just too high, and startups typically don’t have the assets or revenue stream to back up the loan. Demonstrate an ability to repay from revenues, not collateral. They actually prefer to see that you have a revenue stream to repay the loan, since they don’t want to own another home.

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6 Ways To Get Credible Data To Support A New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

If ten percent of these numbers, multiplied by your average product price, will get you the revenue you need to scale your business, you will get the love you need from angel and venture capital investors. In most cases, these are available to the public for free access, and can be referenced and footnoted in your plan.

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8 Key Ingredients to a Profitable Consulting Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet, according to statistics from the Small Business Association (SBA), over half of new businesses offer something else - personal professional services, including consulting, business coaching, and advisory services. Set pricing to assure both revenue and profit. They expect reviews and testimonials from other clients.