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The Complete Guide to SBA Loans

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territory including the United States, Puerto Rico, Guam and the U.S. If ‘debt financing’ – how we refer to these types of loans – is not a route you want to go down, the SBA has offers a couple of other options, including a Surety Bonds program , a Venture Capital program and various Grants. Virgin Islands.

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5 Critical Tips to Reduce Your Business Taxes This Year [WEBINAR]

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But basically, your personal finances and business finances are little more intermixed when it’s pass-through entity. These are state designations. The advantage there is that we can designate part of their net profit that they can distribute to the owner as either tax-free distributions, or as owner salary.

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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

I lived through the time when working in my first job in Ann Arbor Michigan we had to get out a map to find out that San Jose was not only in Puerto Rico but there was a city with that same name in California. A 20 th century VC was likely to have an MBA or finance background.

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