Success stories
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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...
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Spokane Valley Sign Manufacturer Starts and Grows Business with SBA Help
Marshon and Steve Kempf had successful careers in nursing and the United States Air Force. After serving as an F-16 pilot for 27 years, Steve retired in 2010, leaving the couple free to do whatever...
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Tumwater Woodworking Business Utilizes SBA Services to Overcome Obstacles
Joe Wadsworth started Custom Source Woodworking in 2007 after having spent more than a decade working for other businesses seeing how woodworking shops treated employees as replaceable while not...
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Closing the Door on a Dream Opens the Doors to Many More in Oregon
In 2002, Cecil DelaCruz was one of a handful of engineers and technicians tasked to oversee the shutdown of a fabrication facility when months before he was overseeing its construction. His employer...