Tuesday, May 21, 2013

New Entrepreneurship Lending for Veterans

The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) has launched the SBA Veteran Pledge Initiative to help veterans become entrepreneur.

According to the SBA:

Often times, veterans face challenges in raising capital or have trouble receiving a conventional loan. With the support of SBA’s top 20 national lending partners, and approximately 100 additional regional and community lending partners across the United States, SBA expects to assist an additional 2,000 veterans obtain loans to start or expand small businesses by increasing lending by $475 million over the next five years. This equals a five percent increase above historic veteran lending activity by the SBA.
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Veterans make up a large number of successful small business owners. Nine percent of small businesses are veteran-owned. These 2.45 million veteran-owned businesses employ more than 5 million individuals. In the private sector workforce, veterans are more likely than those with no active-duty military experience to be self-employed.

To learn more about all opportunities for veterans available through the SBA, visit www.sba.gov/veterans.

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