Library Books
Financial Intelligence for Entrepreneurs: What You Really Need to Know About the Numbers - Karen BermanInvestors in your backyard: how to raise business capital from the people you know
Accounting and Finance for Your Small Business
Raising Venture Capital for the Serious Entrepreneur
Financing Your Small Business
Micro Loans
- Opportunity Fund: Working Capital for Working People
A pilot project to help people in business in the U.S. - a joint venture with Kivi.org that provides mico loans outside of the U.S. - ACCION USA ACCION USA is a private, nonprofit organization that provides microloans and other financial services to low and moderate-income entrepreneurs who are unable to access bank credit for their small businesses.
Government Resources
- 34 Federal Programs to Assist Businesses The Small Business Administration (SBA), the Department of Transportation (DOT), and the General Services Administration (GSA) provide the following assistance programs to large and small businesses in the form of training, counseling, and insured loans.
- Grants.gov : Current Federal Funding Opportunities for Business and Commerce
In response to The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act or Recovery Act, Grant-making agencies are posting Recovery Act specific grant opportunities on Grants.gov. - Small Business Administration - Office of Women's Business Entrepreneurship The Office of Women’s Business Ownership (OWBO) exists to establish and oversee a network of Women’s Business Centers (WBCs) throughout the United States and its territories.
Financing
- Getting Financing for Your Small Business From the online Small Business Toolkit from CCH, a publisher of legal resources, is an explanation of "smart money" and how small businesses may go about finding financing.
- Contra Costa County CDBG Small Business Loan Programs Microenterprise Loan Program, Economic Development Assistance Loan Program, and interest form.
- OBDC - Oakland Business Development Corporation OBDC Small Business Finance (OBDC) is a non-profit business lender committed to building strong communities by providing loans and referral services to new and emerging businesses, located in the low income areas of Oakland and the greater East bay.
- TMC Working Solutions TMC Development Working Solutions is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization committed to serving new and existing businesses throughout the nine San Francisco Bay Area counties.
- California Small Business Financing Programs Your online source to all federal and state financial assistance programs available for California businesses. From the State of California Web site.
- Equipment Financing Crest Capital’s strength is helping small and medium-sized businesses get the equipment financing they need at better rates while eliminating the hassle often encountered with typical bank financing.
- SBA Participating Lenders Local Area Contacts
Brochure - Credit Crunch - Small Business Issues impacting small businesses are discussed and advices to entrepreneurs on how to stay afloat during the financial crisis are offered.
Federal Funding
- Financing Your Business Provides information on small business finance and loan programs. The SBA offers a variety of financing options for small business. The SBA's assistance is usually loan guaranties made by banks and other private lendors to small business clients.
- SBA Preferred Lender Program PLP lenders are nominated based on their historical record with the SBA. They have demonstrated a proficiency in processing and servicing SBA-guaranteed loans.
- SBA Micro-loan Program The Microloan Program provides very small loans to start-up, newly established, or growing small business concerns. Under this program, SBA makes funds available to nonprofit community based lenders (intermediaries) which, in turn, make loans to eligible
- SBA Micro-Loan Intermediaries Listed by State
- SBA Small Business Forms Forms for financial assistance, disaster, technical assistance, contracting & surety bonds, 8(a) business development, and more
- Finance Primer: Guide to SBA's Loan Guaranty Programs This is a free online course
- Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Database of all Federal programs available to State and local governments; Indian tribal governments; US territories; domestic public, quasi-public, and private profit and nonprofit organizations and institutions; specialized groups; and individuals.
Women and Minorities
- Business Financing Information for Minorities and Women
- Wells Fargo Women's Business Center
- Amber Foundation The primary focus is assisting women who are trying to start small businesses, home-based or online. The grants are $500 to $1000 and are intended to be used to upgrade equipment, pay for a web site etc.
- Minority Business Development Agency Loans, grants and related information to assist you in building and optimizing your MBE financial portfolio.
- Financial Assistance for Women Business Owners Federal and state government agencies do not provide grants to women to help them start a business. Grants may be available from non-profits and private organizations, and focus on helping minority and women in economically disadvantaged communities.
SBA Loans
If your small business is stressed meeting expenses during these economic times, the U.S. Small Business Administration has a new loan program designed just for you.
- 2009 Recovery Act SBA and the Recovery Act
- SBA Loans - Recent Articles Articles on SBA loans and upcoming changes from magazines in the General OneFile library database.
Selected Directory
Find in the San Francisco Book of Lists:
Top Angel investors
Largest SBA Loans
Top SBA Lenders
Top Venture Capital Firms
Largest Venture Capital Deals
- Book of Lists - San Francisco
Compiled from the weekly San Francisco Business Times, the San Francisco Book of Lists ranks 2,000 companies in 151 categories contains the names of 2,344 key executives.
Venture Capital
- MIT/Stanford Venture Lab The San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the MIT Enterprise Forum, a non-profit organization promoting the growth and success of high-tech entrepreneurial ventures by connecting ideas, technology and people.
- Angel Capital Education Foundation Located in Kansas City, MO, this foundation helps entrepreneurs find angels.
- Golden Seeds Golden Seeds was formed to help women entrepreneurs grow their business. They look at companies with valuations of less than $4 million.
- Edward Lowe Perspectives Type in finance in the keyword search box to find information on financing your business.
- Small Business Administration - New Markets Venture Capital (NMVC) Program The New Markets Venture Capital "NMVC" Program is a developmental venture capital program designed to promote economic development and the creation of wealth and job opportunities in low-income geographic areas and among individuals living in such areas.
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