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How To Write A Business Plan For Your Small Business
For all small business owners, a business plan is core to your company’s success. It’s a written description of your business’s plans for the future, and explains to potential partners and investors how you’ll get there. These documents usually look ahead three-to-five years into the future, and outline the path your small business intends to […]
Jul 22, 2015 – Small Business Advising And Mentoring • Small Business Resources •
Small Business Marketing: Content Marketing
[This is a continuation of our Marketing 101 series] Once you have the groundwork done in building your small business’ marketing — research and messaging, website, digital marketing, and maybe ads — you’re likely thinking two things. What’s next? And at this point, how can I afford to compete against larger businesses? For many […]
Jul 22, 2015 – Small Business Advising And Mentoring • Small Business Resources •
Mentoring and Advising: Crucial To Small Business Success
Seventeen years ago, we saw venture capital firms doing something to drive startups to greater success: pairing an entrepreneur not just with working capital, but an expert business advisor as well. Our founder Bud Colligan connected the dots: small businesses are the engine of job creation in America, but more of them fail then they […]
Jul 22, 2015 – Small Business Advising And Mentoring • Small Business Resources •
5 Tips To Prepare Your Small Business For Capital
As a small business lender in California, we meet small business owners looking for capital for all sorts of reasons, and in all kinds of amounts and forms. One thing that almost all small business owners that we meet have in common? The need to do a little financial and business strategy housekeeping before they’re […]
Jul 21, 2015 – Small Business Loans • Small Business Resources •
Free Webinar: Pillars of a Successful Small Business Brand
Update: If you missed the live webinar, you can watch the relay here: Join BusinessAdvising.org on Friday, July 24 for a free webinar on building your small business brand. You’ll learn four essential keys to developing, launching and sustaining a successful brand. Vision/Mission Statements – Where are you going and how are you getting there? […]
Jul 21, 2015 – Small Business Advising And Mentoring • Small Business Resources • Webinars •
What’s New In Impact Investing? June Roundup
Impact investing is about a very simple, progressive idea: markets and money for good. Impact investing is built on the belief that financial tools can play a powerful role in solving the massive global challenges of our day, and that capital markets should work for good as well as profit. This vision is realized through […]
Jul 21, 2015 – Impact Investing •
Free Webinar: Small Business From Idea to IPO
This past Friday, our BusinessAdvising.org program hosted entrepreneur Noah Alper — founder of Bread & Circus and Noah’s Bagels — and discussed strategies and practices to take your small business from its conception through to an IPO. This webinar leads small businesses — especially those in the food and restaurant industry —on a path to […]
Jul 21, 2015 – Small Business Advising And Mentoring • Small Business Resources • Webinars •
Is It Always Bad If My Credit Score Drops?
Most Americans don’t realize how much their daily life is affected by their credit score. Almost everyone is aware that their credit score is used when they want to finance a major purchase, but it goes far beyond this. Your credit score is a determining factor in most auto, renters, or homeowners insurance rates. Most […]
Jul 21, 2015 – Small Business Loans • Small Business Resources •
PCV’s Five Year Impact
The Great Recession destroyed almost 3 million jobs at small businesses, and devastated America’s working people and low-income communities. Pacific Community Ventures has fueled the recovery since the end of the Recession five years ago. We’ve created 1,297 jobs for working people in underserved communities, and empowered 867 companies across 25 states. The small business […]