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What Small Businesses Can Do To Survive And Thrive During The Pandemic

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The odds were always difficult for small businesses even before the pandemic. According to the numbers published by the Small Business Administration in 2018, 20% of these enterprises fail in their first year. Scan through them and see which assistance your business may be eligible for. A Change in Attitude.

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How to Decide the Best Way to Fund Your Business

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The idea here is to attract small amounts of funding from a large number of micro-investors, rather than working with one wealthy individual or large firm. This distributed model often makes it easier to get the funds you need, but there are a couple of logistical hurdles. Grants and loans. Determining Your Priorities.

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8 Steps to Starting Your Own Business

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Rather than thinking of a business plan as a hefty document that you’ll only use once (perhaps to obtain a loan from a bank), think of it as tool to manage how your business grows and achieves its goals. No two businesses are the same! As your business grows you can flesh out the sections as you see fit. Credit cards.

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How to Start a Brewery

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Where in your area will you find land or a building with the right zoning, size, facilities, and access for bringing in raw materials, attracting customers, and/or shipping out finished beer for distribution? How wide do you want to grow production and distribution, or do you want to focus on selling over your own bar? Relationships.

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How to Form a Corporation

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Ideally, you will interview a few candidates and pick the partners you feel comfortable working with for a long time. Also, creating a quick lean financial forecast will help ensure your business idea is viable and financially sound. Small Business Administration: . Get back to work, and good luck! Primary sources.

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Why The SBIC Doesn’t Work For Venture Capital Anymore

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I woke up to an article in Daily Camera today titled Small Business Administration trying to bring SBIC funds to Colorado. The article starts off saying that “Matthew Varilek has traveled across the state, proselytizing the potential benefits of the Small Business Investment Company Program.”

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How to Start a Brewery: Growing Your Own Craft Beer Business

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These products will be distributed to remote yet extremely viable areas, where the market is appreciative of readily-available, good-quality brew. With this money, they plan to expand its distribution to selected metro areas within the state of Oregon. Initial plans are to produce three main lines of beer. Martin Cove Brewing Company.

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