Success stories
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Sandi Luck, Bully Brew Coffeehouse
Luck’s entrepreneurial journey began 18 years ago when she launched a modest coffee kiosk while serving as a professor of marketing and entrepreneurship at the University of North Dakota. Blending...
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Humtown Products Uses SBA Support to Expand, Innovate, and Strengthen American Manufacturing
The Ohio manufacturer used SBA financing and business support to invest in new space, expand exports, and grow into North America’s leading producer of 3D sand cores and molds. Humtown Products has...
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Stell Environmental digs in with Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Contract
Stell Environmental Enterprises was established in 2004. The business, headquartered in Exton, Pennsylvania became an SBA-certified 8(a) business in 2006 providing environmental and planning services...
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Phoenix Language Services keeps interpreting with SBA’s technical assistance, pandemic programs
Founded in 1993, Phoenix Language Services (Phoenix) provides comprehensive language access services for their limited-English proficient and deaf and hard of hearing clients and patient populations...
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Super Natural & Fresh Produce helps eliminate local food deserts with SBA technical assistance, pandemic programs
Leopoldo Sanchez grew up in the city of Santiago de los Caballeros in the Dominican Republic and worked in stores owned by his relatives. He came to the U.S. in 1992, settled in the Bronx, and opened...
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Passing the Ownership Torch to a New Generation
Situation Prior to purchasing an ExecuTrain franchise in Lexington, Kentucky in 1997, Crinda Francke was an accountant for a large auto dealership in the area. Her knowledge and experience at that...
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Building the Future of Manufacturing One Skill at a Time
Olson Custom Designs (OCD), headquartered in Indianapolis, is redefining what a modern machine shop can be. This high-tech manufacturing and training facility turns out precision components for the...
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Thriving in the America’s Rural Heartland
In the Heartland, rural entrepreneurs don’t simply weather challenges—they rise to meet them. And few stories capture that spirit better than the journey of K & K Dirtworks in Evanston. The company’s...