Success stories

SBA Recovery Programs Allow This Business to Keep On Cookin’ Through Pandemic

What happens when you fuse traditional Italian recipes with soul food grilling? You get The Black Italian Grill Kitchen. In 2008, Chef Paula Hunter was cooking and needed to add meat to her...

SBA Grant Gets This Movie Theatre Business Through COVID-19 Pandemic

Apex Entertainment, LLC operates two multiplex movie theatres: the landmark Village 8 Theatres, which offers first-run discounted movies and hosts special events; and Baxter Avenue Theatres, which has...

Native American SDVOSB and SBA 8(a) Business Graduate Mentors Others

After holding mid-senior level positions in business development and strategic marketing roles with Fortune 1000 Companies and assignments with the U.S. Air Force Reserves and the Pentagon, Scott...

Still Catering to a Higher Cause

In 2012, Mavis Linnemann-Clark opened The Delish Dish, a catering company in Covington, KY. She obtained a Catering and Personal Chef certificate in 2011, having combined her passion for travel...

Vet Uses COVID EIDL, PPP and other SBA Programs to Survive and Grow

In 2013, Alejandro “Alex” Ramirez retired from the U.S. Army after 22 years of service. Before retiring, Alex participated in the SBA Boots to Business entrepreneurial training program on the Ft. Knox...

Company Uses SBA 8(a), HUBZone and PPP to Grow and Survive the Pandemic

Since 1986, Grōt, Incorporated has provided electrical and IT work for building construction, industrial and commercial projects. In 2002, the company became SBA HUBZone certified. Realizing that...

Grilling Up New Ideas for a WOSB, Rural Manufacturing Company

Situation Oscarware, Inc. is a family-owned manufacturing business, founded in 1989 by the wife and husband team of Debra and Reg Dudley. Sensing the anything-can-be-grilled trend, they invented a new...

Pharmaceutical Company Receives SBA PPP Loans & Research Grants

Situation: Estimates show that developing a single prescription drug that gains market approval cost $2.6 billion. The further a drug goes into this process, from R&D to clinical trials to...