Successful Business Plans
Lesson 8: Funding Your Plan
Commercial Funding
One of the greatest benefits of our free enterprise system of supply and demand is the vast network of diverse, targeted funding vehicles that has evolved. It has been fine tuned over recent decades to provide specific types of capital to different businesses in different industries and regions. Here are some commercial funding venues:
- Commercial Banks
- Line of credit
- Commercial loan
- Inventory loan
- Accounts receivable factoring
- Term loan
- Monthly payment business loans
- Real estate loan
- Asset based lending
- SBA Funding Programs
- SBA Loan Guaranty Program
SBA Direct Loans - SBA Disaster Loans
- Small Business Investment Companies
- Small Business Development Companies
- Minority Enterprise Small Business Investment Companies (MESBIC's)
- Microlenders
- Small Business Innovative Research Grants (SBIR)
- SBA Loan Guaranty Program
- Venture Capital
- Venture Capital funds
- Investment banking firms
- Boutiques
- State venture capital funds
- Going public
- Franchising
- Insurance Companies
- Pension Funds
- Commercial Finance Companies
- Credit Unions
- Savings and Loans Associations
- Factoring companies
- Leasing
- Warehouse receipt financing
- Wholesale floor planning
- Procurement assistance programs
- Surety bonding companies
- State Business and Industrial Development Corporations (SBIDC)
- Veterans' Administration guaranteed loans
- Farmers Home Administration guaranteed loans
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