MBDA Tacoma Business Center is excited to have been selected as one of 30 top Tacoma blogs by Feedspot! It’s an honor and we are excited to provide technical assistance and strategic consulting to ethnic minority-owned businesses in the region. Check out the Top 30 Tacoma blogs here.
Skanska’s BOOST Program is designed to teach MWBE contractors how to overcome challenges to successfully work with large prime contractors. Program classes are scheduled to meet in Seattle on Thursdays over a 12-week period September 20 thru December 6, 2018. There is no cost to class participants.
Billions of dollars in small business loans and government contracts, and millions of new jobs later, the Small Business Administration (SBA) continues to play a vital role in spurring economic development and growth, all in the span of 65 years of its existence. In his article, Jeremy Field, SBA Regional Administrator of Pacific Northwest, celebrates the innovation and pioneering of small businesses in the Northwest, and SBA’s contribution to help their success. SBA continues to connect small businesses with the resources needed at various stages of the business lifecycle. Here are 10 things you didn’t know about the SBA:
Bunker Labs is hosting a 20-week online course for active duty military and veterans to learn how to start a business. This is a great opportunity to learn how to become a successful entrepreneur. Applications are open now – first meeting is on June 11, 2018. Bunker Labs provided an overview of the topics and format of the training.
On behalf of SBA, Marco Carbajo the founder of the Business Credit Insiders Circle has written a guide for business owners to maximize their company’s true financing potential through building your small business credit. Through an understanding between the difference between personal and business credit Carbajo has identified four key differences to help businesses establish their own unique credit identity. Read more
Tacoma, Wash. — The City of Tacoma’s Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) Business Center has been named Public Agency of the Year by the Northwest Mountain Minority Supplier Development Council (MSDC).
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Inventors and small businesses that meet certain financial thresholds and other criteria may be eligible for free legal assistance in preparing and filing a patent application. The Patent Pro Bono Program is a nationwide network of independently operated regional programs that match volunteer patent professionals with financially under-resourced inventors and small businesses for the purpose of securing patent protection. Each regional program provides services for residents of one or more states. Read more
The Veterans Incubator for Better Entrepreneurship (VIBE) provides an applied training environment that supports military veterans’ entrepreneurial aspirations and promotes their understanding of the modern startup life cycle. VIBE’s Business Plan Competition is the pinnacle event for the Veterans Incubator for Better Entrepreneurship at the University of Washington Tacoma.
Learn more about the competition and how to enter here.
Find out more about VIBE on their website.
SBA.gov community author, Paul Lester, listed the three essential financial statements a small business must have for successful growth. Read the full blog and find out how to create these financial statements in the link below.
Accurately tracking financial data is not only critical for running the day-to-day operations of your small business, but it is also essential when seeking funding from lenders or investors to take your business to the next level.
In addition, keeping tabs of your finances can help ensure your products and services are priced right, identify what your margins are, determine your cash flow and make filing taxes easier. Read more
Funding of up to $7,500 for supportive services is available to qualified DBE firms that are engaged in highway activities.
The program has two distinct parts: Read more
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