Success stories
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EIDL Assists Inn During Pandemic
By Danny Monahan Small Business Administration Vermont District Office Following a stateside disaster declaration on March 20 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Governor Phil Scott informed small business...
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Ohio Manufacturer Turns to SBA for Assistance During Challenging Economies
American Manufacturing is a Toledo, Ohio, auto industry parts maker that was founded in 1995. Prior to the 2008 recession, owner Chuck Gotberg employed 125 people, but when the auto industry was...
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Harris Dream Clean: From Rock Bottom to Entrepreneurial Success Through Faith and Family
They say necessity is the mother of invention. For one young entrepreneur in Wichita, becoming a new father after losing his job with only unemployment income spurred him to act. Jordan Harris started...
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Surgeon Gets Mixed Up In Entrepreneurship
By Danny Monahan Small Business Administration Vermont District Office Active sitting sounds like a contradictory term. An oxymoron along the lines of open secret or bittersweet. Besides how can one...
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Landmark Theater Navigates COVID-19's Impact, Triumphantly Announces 2021-2022 Season
The date was March 12, 2020. A production of “The Play that Goes Wrong” was set to take the stage that night at Wilmington, Delaware’s iconic theater The Grand Opera House. More than 800 tickets to...
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Rural Baby Business Gets Big Boost Using Multiple SBA Programs to Grow
Little Falls, a small rural town in central Minnesota on the Mississippi River, may not seem the most obvious place for “Minnesota’s one-stop baby shop,” but that’s how Adelle Starin describes her...
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Adding Creativity to the Trades with Help from the SBA and Partners
When Tobias Flood and Mark Eiden met in college in 2014, where they were studying machine tooling technology, the pair quickly decided to start a business together. Luckily for them, the college...
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Mission-Driven Café Gets Support from SBA to Continue Serving
The concept behind Bellden Café, a mission-driven café in the heart of Bellevue, came from Claire Sumadiwirya’s life. Before opening Bellden Café in 2017, Claire was on a short-term work assignment in...