Resource Links for Small Businesses Looking for Capital

Prepared by:

Liquid Capital of Northeast Ohio

www.lcneo.com

U. S. Small Business Administration (SBA)

• The best place to start learning about SBA financial assistance programs is http://www.sba.gov/services/financialassistance/index.html
• SBA Cleveland http://www.sba.gov/localresources/district/oh/cleveland/index.html

Government and community investment programs

• Ohio GrowNOW program. Reduced interest rates on bank loans. http://www.grownow.ohio.gov
• Cuyahoga County Department of Development http://development.cuyahogacounty.us/
• Economic Development Assistance Handbook http://development.cuyahogacounty.us/pdf_development/en-US/EconDevHandbook.pdf
• Cuyahoga County New Product Loan Fund (administered by MAGNET) http://www.magnetwork.org/programs/cuyahoga-loan-fund.htm
• Akron Office of Economic Development http://ci.akron.oh.us/ed/index.htm
• Cleveland Department of Economic Development http://www.city.cleveland.oh.us/government/departments/econdev/index.asp
• JumpStart http://www.jumpstartinc.org/
• NorTech/TechLift http://www.techlift.org/
• North Coast Angel Fund http://www.northcoastangelfund.com/
• ARCHangels http://www.akronarchangels.com/acorn.php

Incubator Links

• Beachwood Chamber of Commerce http://www.beachwood.org/businessdevelopmentcenter.htm
• Braintree (Mansfield) http://www.braintreepartners.org/
• GLIDE (Elyria) http://www.glideit.org/
• MAGNET http://www.magnetwork.org/
• Youngstown Business Incubator http://www.ybi.org/

Small Business Development Center (SBDC) links

• Akron SBDC http://www.akronsbdc.org/
• Cleveland Urban League SBDC http://www.ulcleveland.org/sbdc/index.html
• Kent SBDC http://www.krba.biz/
• Lake County SBDC http://www.lcedc.org/sbdc/sbdc.htm
• Lorain County SBDC http://www.loraincountychamber.com/sbd/
• Mansfield SBDC http://www.ohiomtsbdc.org/
• Youngstown SBDC http://www.ohiosbdc-ysu.com/
• Ohio SBDC Network http://www.entrepreneurohio.org/

COSE MindShare finance section

• Articles on various business finance topics by John Doucette and other experts. http://www.cosemindspring.com/finance

Alternative financing association links

• National Funding Association. Organization of alternative funding professionals. Information on Cleveland chapter at http://www.nationalfunding.org/chapters.html?sid=13241
• International Factoring Association http://www.factoring.org/index.cfm?page=factor_search

Sites to post requests for financing and to get information about capital formation

• BusinessFinance.Com http://www.businessfinance.com
• IdeaCrossing https://www.ideacrossing.org/
• RaiseCapital.Com http://www.raisecapital.com
• GoBig Network http://www.gobignetwork.com/

National Small Business Association

• Link to the full 2008 NSBA small business survey http://www.nsba.biz/docs/2008bizsurvey.pdf