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Posts in Category: Financing your business
October 30, 2019
The average commercial building wastes 30 percent of the energy it consumes. Most of that energy consumption comes from lighting, followed by cooling, then computers. Today, thanks to the new NH Small Business Development Center and Eversource partnership, small and mid-size businesses across the state have enhanced access to energy efficiency resources, technical assistance, and energy expertise.
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October 23, 2019
Mark toussaint has helped businesses improve their efficiency throughout NH for 20 years, the last twelve as an Eversource Energy Efficiency Consultant. The NH SBDC works closely with energy consultants like Mark, to ensure that NH businesses have all the resources they need to consider, assess and implement their efficiency projects.
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October 17, 2019
In 2017, Daryl Dawson purchased a Lakes Region landmark, the Kellerhaus, in Laconia. Daryl decided that pursuing energy efficiency was a great way to bring the Kellerhaus up-to-date and improve his bottom line, so he reached out to Andrea O'Brien, director of NH SBDC's Business Sustainability Program, for help.
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July 17, 2019
Did you know that the NHCLF provides flexible capital and customized technical assistance for NH businesses? Liz Short, Director, Business Finance, NH Community Loan Fund, answers questions about NHCLF and its programs for business owners in NH.
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July 23, 2018
Bob Sundstrom, a Merrimack, NH retired carpenter, had always been a bit of an inventor. There was his “super sleeve” invention, his rotating mop invention, then there was the fishing lure...
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January 31, 2017
NH SBDC’s e-Learning for Entrepreneurs program has re-launched new, updated versions of Starting a Business in New Hampshire and Financing a Business in New Hampshire.
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October 14, 2016
Sara Laroux hoped to run her own veterinary clinic one day. In 2014 her dream became a reality when she took over the Tilton Veterinary Hospital. Financing such an endeavor took some creativity, Sara said, and a lot of players.
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September 30, 2016
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) provides several pieces of the funding puzzle, placed somewhere between conventional commercial financing and alternative lenders. While the SBA is not a direct lender (other than the disaster loan program), we support a variety of lending partners who work in this space.
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September 19, 2016
The Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act was signed into law on April 5, 2012. One of the most novel aspects of the JOBS Act was that it would allow unaccredited individual investors to make investments in companies through the private marketplace, much as accredited investors have been permitted to do for many decades. In common practice it may be referred to as Equity Crowdfunding.
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June 20, 2016
It’s three o’clock in the morning. Something woke you. Was it your anticipation of the delivery of your next inventory shipment - while hoping the payment from the client’s last order appears soon? Or your anxiety about the new accounts on the horizon? (Which, mind you, are not yet accounts, but you are optimistic - a good trait of an entrepreneur!) Or are you stressed about the frantic process of creating inventory to fill those new orders?
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