Date: 12/3/2008
Time: 11:45 AM TO 1:00 PM

513 W. Maple St.
Cumming, Ga 30040

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Event Description: Are you ready? This discussion focuses on the necessary qualities and personal traits required for starting a business; the steps required to achieve success and take your company to the next level and insights into why banks so NO, but how you can still obtain funds or reduce the amount of money needed by “thinking outside of the box!” Learn the most effective way to obtain Small Business Administration (SBA) Guaranteed Loans, including a review of the bank decision and underwriting process. • How loan and venture investor decisions are made – what crucial questions you must answer, including the importance of credit reports. • Business plan preparation review and discussion of what yours must contain to facilitate positive funding decisions. • Tapping non-traditional funding sources including: Angel Investors, Seed Capital, Venture Capital, factoring, vendor and user financing, leasing, merchant banking. SBSC classes are held at the Chamber’s events facility, 513 W. Maple St., Cumming. Free for members, $10 for non-members. Brown Bag lunch (bring your own). Drinks will be provided. Register by contacting the Chamber at cfccoc@cummingforsythchamber.org or 770-887-6461. Please park in the events facility lot, located off W. Maple St.


Directions:
Please park in the events facility lot, located off W. Maple St.

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