Originally Posted 12/18/06 written by Shane Percival
A recent Forbes.com article (http://www.forbes.com/home/entrepreneurs/2006/12/15/shopzilla-adozu-vonage-ent-fin-cx_kw_1215wharton.html) discussing topics addressed at the 2006 Wharton Entrepreneurship Conference got me thinking that I needed to do another blog post. Specifically, the article discussed how too much emphasis is placed on venture capital these days when historically business have been funded using friends and family, credit cards, second mortgages, and Small Business Administration (SBA) loans.
It was this SBA snippet that got me thinking I needed to do some shameless plugging of the services provided by Leyendecker & Lemire, LLC. No, we don’t fund companies, but we do work with an organization, the Colorado SBDC Network, that can provide you with information on how to do so. The SBDC is a great organization as it provides, free of charge, a seemingly endless supply of information on how to get your start-up off the ground and running.
The SBDC recently asked us to provide our services for an intellectual property seminar. So, ON JANUARY 24, 2007 FROM 3PM – 5PM, MYSELF, KURT LEYENDECKER, AND PETER LEMIRE WILL BE HOLDING AN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SEMINAR AT THE SOUTH METRO DENVER SBDC OFFICE. To sign up for this free seminar, click here: http://www.smallbusinessdenver.com/events.cfm. Specifically, we’ll be discussing patents, trademarks, and copyrights. However, if there’s a question on how to fund your business, we’ll give it our best shot. Hope to see you there.
