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No Business Credit? Here’s a Simple Strategy to Get Credit and Conserve Cash Flow
By Marco Carbajo, Guest Blogger If you plan to take out a loan for your business, buy equipment, open a business credit card – just about anything that requires borrowing money – having business credit is essential. But if you
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Rethinking Insurance Coverage
By BarbaraWeltman, Guest Blogger Like most small businesses, you probably can’t self-insure (pay for losses out of pocket) because you can’t afford the risk for substantial financial exposure. You need insurance. But you may not have the type or amount
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How to Develop and Use a Good Executive Summary
By Tim Berry, Guest Blogger Most business owners have a general idea of the executive summary that comes with the traditional business plan. However, in the real world, summaries come up much more often than just in the business plan.
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SBA, LSBDC, and SCORE Present “Fifth Annual Bootstraps to Briefcases Veteran’s Small Business Conference” in Baton Rouge on July 27
BATON ROUGE– The Louisiana District Office of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), the Louisiana Small Business Development Center of Baton Rouge, SCORE “Counselors to America Small Businesses”, will be sponsoring the “5th Annual Bootstraps to Briefcases Veteran’s Small Business
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CEO Roundtables Program Expands To Six Louisiana Cities
Yearlong program nurtures growth of Louisiana firms via peer learning and access to experts BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana Economic Development is expanding its successful CEO Roundtables program to six cities throughout the state, with classes beginning this summer for
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Half of Millennials Want to Start a Business: Here’s How to Get Going
By Kali Geldis, NAV If you were born between 1977 and 1995, there’s over a 50% chance that you would start your own small business if you knew where to get help to make it happen. America’s SBDC, the face
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