SBDC hosting flood insurance workshop
The Small Business Development Center will host a free workshop about flood and business insurance from 8 to 10 a.m. tomorrow, May 21, at the Business of Art Center in Manitou Springs. A lot of business owners have had trouble making sense of the current business insurance environment, especially as it pertains to flood insurance, said Ingrid [...]
The Small Business Development Center, which is housed at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, will relocate to the El Paso County Citizens Service Center, alongside the Pikes Peak Workforce Center. The SBDC plans to be in its new office by April26. It will be on the first floor of the center, 1675 Garden of [...]
Continue reading …If your business phone rings and it’s Ingrid Wood from the Small Business Development Center, take the call. She’s not selling anything. She won’t try to fast-talk a small-business owner into something he or she doesn’t need. She wants to help. Wood knows it’s been nine months since the Waldo Canyon fire shut down businesses [...]
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Local banks have teamed with the Colorado Springs Regional Business Alliance and other community partners to offer $10,000 loans to small businesses that were affected by last summer’s Waldo Canyon fire. The loan amount is up to $10,000 at zero interest for 12 months and then 12 percent thereafter. There is no loan fee and [...]
Continue reading …When Nathan and Melissa Liljestrand’s remodeling business, Custom Creations, needed a bottom-line makeover, they took it to the Small Business Development Center’s Leading Edge class. The couple’s business plan has advanced to a state-level competition, where it will compete against the business plans submitted by 14 other SBDCs for a cash prize. The SBDCs 13-week Leading [...]
Continue reading …The Colorado Small Business Development Center received a $100,000 federal grant to help support services for small businesses affected by the Waldo Canyon fire. The services available include loan packaging, marketing and business planning for recovery, assistance with the FEMA disaster program and the application process for the low interest Small Business Administration disaster loans. [...]
Continue reading …About three years ago, Jesse Russow wanted to open his own business, using experience gained from years as an entrepreneur and as a traveling roofing salesman.
Continue reading …A search committee is reviewing applicants now for the director’s position at the Small Business Development Center at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. The committee hopes to start interviewing candidates in February and name a new director by March, said Venkat Reddy, dean of the UCCS College of Business. Marcella Hurley, who took [...]
Continue reading …Marcella Hurley has left her job as director of the Small Business Development Center at UCCS. Her departure was abrupt, but Venkat Reddy, dean of the College of Business, did not offer details about whether she left voluntarily or was fired. “All I can say is that it did not work out and that Marcella Hurley [...]
Continue reading …Veterans transitioning out of the military are choosing entrepreneurship. And, the Colorado Springs Small Business Development Center wants to help them make the leap from military life to owning their own business. The organization is hosting a two-day workshop for veterans who are interested in starting their own business or expanding their business. “Based on [...]
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