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YOUR FUNDING TOOLKIT
Using Technology to Improve your Cash Flow - a video tutorial from SCORE
10 Marketing Plan Tips to Help Get a Bank Loan email course
Finding the right accounting software
Learn Quickbooks - Free Tutorials
Get money faster: Online invoicing and credit card processing tools
Understanding financial statements
Estimating Breakeven Sales for your Small Business
How trade reporting can help you build a credit score
Goal to fund your business: 1 Loan; 3 Credit Cards; 5 Vendors
Before you use your home equity or savings to fund your business
Sources of Business Capital
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Personal savings
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Home equity: lines and loans
Equipment loans
Personal lines of credit and loans
Micro business loans
Business lines of credit and loans
Carryback financing (purchasing business)
Online sources of capital
Factoring receivables
Special funding for exports and imports
Mezzanine debt for established businesses
Private placement debt
Early stage equity investors
Mid-stage equity investors
Funding Programs
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Manufacturer needing $3 million or less? Indiana Small Bond Program
Diverting waste from the waste-stream? Recycling Marketing Development Loans and Grants
Using recycled tires in your products? Waste Tire Fund
Life sciences: Indiana Seed Fund for working capital
Life sciences? Indiana Future Fund
SBA LOANS
SBA
SBA cap program: short-term working capital
SBA Dealer Floor Plan Financing
SBA approved lenders in Indiana
In a small community or rural area? SBA Rural Lender Advantage Program
Loans to buy a franchise
LOANS FOR AGRICULTURE & RURAL AREAS
Agricultural Bond Program
Loans and grants to rural small business and ag producers for energy improvements
USDA Loans for Socially Disadvantaged Farmers and Ranchers
USDA Rural Development Loan
Comparison between USDA and SBA guaranteed loan
Farming? USDA Farm Service Agency Farm Loan Programs
Farm Storage Facility Loan Program
LOANS FOR BUILDINGS & EQUIPMENT
SBA 504 Loans for Industrial and Commercial Property
LOANS FOR RESEARCH
High tech R&D? Funding and mentorship through Elevate Ventures
SBA Small Business Innovation Research
LOANS FOR VETERANS
Current or former military? SBA Patriot Express Loans
SBA Military Reservists Loans
GOVERNMENT GRANTS
Government grant scams
Required collateral
Personal guarantees
If you don't own a home
Equity Investors
Angel investors & venture capital
The Entrepreneur's Path: Handbook for High-Growth Companies
Videos on forming a high growth company from USpark at University of Utah
Indiana's largest venture capital firms
