SBDCs in the News

LoudonTimes.com - June 23, 2008

Mr. Giovanni Cozzarelli, a past executive director of the Loudoun Small Business Development Center, will lead participants through the essential steps for starting a small business. Highlights of the seminar will include taxes, licensing, accounting and record keeping, business-plan development, sources of financing, marketing and insurance. Questions and answers will follow.

StatesmanJournal.com - June 24, 2008 - Jimmie Wilkins

If you are like many business owners, you have been under strong pressure for some time now. You have done the work of "battening down the hatches" to weather the economic storm and even put in place many stringent policies to survive. As some begin to see a light at the end of the tunnel, there is another critical stage for you to go through.

7thSpace.com - June 23, 2008

DES MOINES, Iowa -- The U. S. Small Business Administration (SBA) today announced the opening of a Business Recovery Center (BRC) in Cedar Rapids. The center is specifically designed to provide a wide range of services to businesses impacted by the flooding.

“Due to the severe property damage and economic loss these floods inflicted on businesses in Cedar Rapids and surrounding communities, we want to provide every available service to help get them back on their feet,” said Steven Smith, Chief of the Executive Office of Disaster Strategic Planning and Operations. “This center will provide a single one-stop location for businesses to access a variety of specialized help,” he added.

NJ.com - June 20, 2008 - Beth Fitzgerald

Persistence is paying off for Norma Tempel. After three years of "constant networking," her stone-fabrication business may land some work on the new Giants/Jets football stadium now going up in the Meadowlands.

"I've built relationships with construction project managers who know that I'm a small company that can get the work done," said Tempel, whose 10-year-old South Hackensack company employs five people.