Alaska Small Business Development Center
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The State Small Business Credit Initiative (SSBCI) is a federally-funded program intended to attract lenders & investors to help with funding businesses that can’t get conventional business loans from banks & lending institutions.
The AK SBDC is the administrative lead on the program for Alaska, and will deploy the funding to lenders and investment funds.
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This 41-minute recorded webinar discusses the importance of external funding and introduces two of them: federal non-dilutive SBIR/STTR funding and third-party target/VC funding which may be critical at the early stages of technology development. This webinar discusses how to identify a target which can provide you with financial or developmental support, where to find them, how to approach them and what questions to ask. The webinar also provides suggestions on how the value proposition for your technology should be modified to make potential partners interested.
Presented by: Konstantin Izvolsky, PhD. – Director of Consulting and Training, Foresight
The link above will take you to our client portal, where you will be able to register for access to this training video.