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Small Business Index of Learning Companies.
All small businesses should be learning companies. In several episodes of the
show we learned the remarkable results that occur when the owner teaches
employees how to read the financial statement and how to have bottomline
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| TRUST YOUR
ADVISORS - Put your CPA on Notice: Small business CPAs are naturally
conservative and unless you ask them for advice on capital programs, they
probably will not volunteer. But, these people, as a group will keep you on the
straight and narrow. The best run small businesses turn to their CPAs as
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- MirFoxRodriguez CPAs: Learn how to put your
CPA to work for you.
- Omnex
CPAs: See how this CPA is a trusted business advisor.
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| Business Basics: |
- Review
this episode on Understanding Your Financials
- We'll show
you the money.
- About
Money: Our discussions based on these episodes of the show.
- Staying
Power: A few business basics lessons about finances.
- In
this business everyone knows how to read the financials and interpret their
contribution to the bottom line
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| Raising operating capital: |
- SBA
Loans: Many throughout these episodes talk about their SBA loan. There is
also equity capital available through some of the SBICs.
- Small Business Investment Corporation (SBIC):
Medallion Financial
The largest SBIC for
women and minority loans.
- Money
advice from a banker: Doug Carleton give us 12 key points.
- Battery
Ventures: About venture capital.
- Small
Corporate Offering Registration (SCOR): The SEC instrument, Regulation D,
Rule 504, to do Direct Public Offerings to people who know you, trust you, and
like you. This type of offering does not require that the investors be
pre-qualified by the SEC to make investments.
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| Equity/Liquidity Models and an Exit
Strategy: |
- Employee
Stock Ownership: Three businesses and three flavors of employee stock
ownership. Meet Ray Smilor, the Executive Director of the Beyster Institute,
ESOP experts.
- Selling
Your Business: You'll need your lawyer, CPA, and a business broker. Meet
three small business owners who knew it was time to move on and let somebody
else pick up the reins.
- Sell to
publicly-traded company: You'll especially need your lawyer, CPA, and a
business broker. Meet two who navigated the waters and did well.
- Sell to
one of the top 1000 publicly-traded companies: The larger the deal the more
important it is to have experts at your side. Get the best lawyer, CPA, and
merger-and-acquisition specialists.
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It is your turn: |
- Recommendations? These episodes of the show
are profiles of good small business owners who
have been recommended to us by the small business advocates within an area. Now
everybody is a producer. Though we have always encouraged the recommendations
of our viewers and web visitors, the
show is being rebirthed as a local show so as many as 4000 profiles can be
done each year. Since 1994 these television profiles have aired throughout the
USA on PBS-member stations and around the world on the Voice of America. If you
know a great business in the financial services, let us
know!
- I want to recommend my own business. Are you
in the financial services industry? Would you like to be listed an linked from
this page of the web site. You can. Sign Up today, and then begin working
throughout this web site on the Interactive Questions. Once you have populated
a template and you like how your answers look on a page, it can be published on
this site. We'll need to hear from some local people -- "these folks are great"
-- and that could come from your local Chamber of Commerce, National Trade
Association, a local Economic Development Commission, your Better Business
Bureau and your CPA.
Once you complete this step, you are then on the
list for consideration of an episode, or part of an episode, of the show when
we are in production in your home town.
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