Helping Businesses Grow & Succeed
Stage 4 Company (35-57 employees) This isn’t the time to think about saving money by hiring inexperienced managers. Once your company reaches Stage 4 (35 – 57 employees), you are in need of managers who ‘have been there, done that’. As CEO, you now are spending about 70% of your […]
Stage 3 Company (20-34 employees) Hang on to your sanity, your world just shifted. The dynamic that occurs when a company moves to Stage 3 (20 – 34 employees) is unlike anything you’ve been through. Up to this point in the company’s history, it has been CEO-centric – your passion, […]
Stage 2 Company (11-19 employees) You are not sure when it happened. But without really being cognizant of it, you have 14 employees. Fourteen people who now rely on you to ‘bring home the bacon’ so they can fry it up at home. Ouch. You knew things were getting more […]
The honeymoon is over. You have your start-up capital, you quickly ramped up to 4 – 6 employees and now the fun begins. Getting out of the gate with a new company is not easy, but it’s a cake walk compared to creating a consistently profitable business that you run […]
Is your company export ready? To find out, says Florida SBDC at FIU consultant Shelly Bernal, answer the following questions: Does your company have a product that has been successfully sold in the domestic market? Can your company commit sufficient production capacity to the export market? Is your company willing […]
Raul Santoya and his co-founders run Skymo, a manufacturer of specialty cleaners and degreasers that are safe for the environment. Their initial target market is the aviation industry. “It was at an aviation trade show in 2015 where we discovered the huge opportunity in aviation for products that work but […]
One Florida SBDC at FIU consultant says only about 15 percent of the small businesses he sees are eligible for a traditional small business bank loan. If you are in that elite group, great! For everyone else, there are options. There are alternative financing options – yes, they are more […]
Don’t meet bank qualifications for a business loan? Here are three community financing organizations that the Florida SBDC at FIU works with for Miami-Dade and Monroe County businesses. Each of them lends money and has its own criteria. Miami Bayside Foundation The primary mission of MBF is to provide access […]
Raising capital to grow your business is a challenge – for just about everyone. While small business loans are one route to take, some growing companies have business models and present opportunities that would appeal to outside investors, such as venture capitalists, angel investors, private equity or family offices. Florida […]
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