| Nevada TeleCenter offers plan training to business owners
The Nevada TeleCenter is offering a three-part program helping small business owners and hopeful entrepreneurs write a successful business plan on December 3, 10, and 17 from 8 to 10 a.m. A Business Plan is the most important means you can use as a business owner to set and achieve goals, outline strategies, provide background information, secure funding, and ensure the success of your business. Your Business Plan is your blueprint for success. It is equally as important to develop and follow a business plan for a start up business as it is for an existing business. During this three week, six hour training, you will learn: The difference between a feasibility plan and a business plan, the purpose of a business plan, the components of a successful plan, how to write a winning business plan, funding sources for start ups and established businesses, and information gathering ideas.
Smart Growth Resource Library: Small Farm Funding Resources
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Rural Information Center offers a Small Farm Funding Resources guide that contains information about issues to consider before starting a farming operation, with links to full-text guides on how to start a farm business and develop business and marketing plans.
This resource also contains information about funding sources for beginning farmers, training, technical assistance contacts, organizations with resources and programs for beginning farmers, and more.
Read more at the resource link below. Resource: http://www.nal.usda.gov/ric/ricpubs/small_farm_funding.htm View Printer-friendly page .
Yodle Raises $12 Mln In Latest Financing - Update
(RTTNews) - Monday, online lead generator, Yodle Inc., announced that it has raised $12 million in a round of financing. The new funding is the second round of successful financing for the quickly growing New York based start-up. The funding was led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson, with existing investor Bessemer Venture Partners also participating in the round. Yodle said it has aimed to make buying online ads simple and easy for small businesses and to offer a high-performing, cost-effective alternative to the outdated Yellow Pages, previously the standard for small business advertising. Court Cunningham, CEO of Yodle, said, "Today, 63 percent of consumers primarily search for local businesses online; Yodle is tapping this enormous advertising market to drive customers to businesses in a way that has never been done before.
County inks small business contracts; considering FAU economic study
County commissioners have approved separate one-year agreements to aid small business in Palm Beach County. - A one-year, $94,000 contract with the Florida Atlantic University (FAU) Small Business Development Center to provide technical assistance and training to qualified small business enterprise firms. - A one-year, $96,800 grant agreement with the Palm Beach County Resource Center to provide funding for activities and services to develop and assist small businesses. Commissioners will also consider today a $149,243 contract with Florida Atlantic University to establish measurable benchmark performance standards, assess businesses and citizens input, and conduct a research on the fiscal effects of the Palm Beach County Strategic Economic Development Plan on local and county governments.
Angels are alive in Clark County
We all know it takes money to make money. But if you’re a cashless entrepreneur with a great idea, where do you turn? A number of start-up companies are getting their funding from angel investors. According to the New Hampshire-based Center for Venture Research, angels invested $11.9 billion into U.S. startups during the first half of 2007. Part of those dollars was invested right here in Clark County – local high-tech firm Lightfleet Inc., in business since 2003, is 100 percent angel-funded, according to CEO John Peers. Angel funding helps span the "equity gap," said Dr. John Becker Blease, a finance professor at Washington State University Vancouver. Entrepreneurs usually need from $100,000 to $5 million to fund their endeavor. Financial institutions are usually loath to lend that much, while venture capital firms aren’t interested in such "small potatoes." Clint Page, CEO of Dotster Inc., a successful, young high-tech firm headquartered in Vancouver, said that angel investing in the Vancouver-Portland metro area "is coming of age.
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