Solar Small Business Entrepreneurs May Get Funding/Grants/Loans From Various Sources
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I’ve received some of your emails regarding questions/concerns in how to obtain funding to start a solar/renewable energy/energy efficiency small business. Here are some info/links that may be of assistance to you:
- For those of you in Canada: here are 10 Small Business Loan Sources; 8 Sources of Business Startup Money; 7 Canada Government Grants Your Small Business May Qualify; Self Employment Program: One of the Best Small Business Grants in Canada;
- For those of you in UK: here are UK Business Funding Centre; Financing Solar PV at Triodos Bank; Solar PV Finance Solutions; Compass Business Finance; Small Business Finance Directory; Small Business;
- For those of you in USA: here are US Small Business Administration;US Department of Energy Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization; REC Solar Finance Solutions; Green Solar Finance; Conergy Solar Project Finance Program; SolarCity & US Bank Finance Solar Projects; etc.
- For those of you in Australia: here are Australian loans from Business-Trader.com; Australian Government Grants & Small Business Funding; Energy Matters; Australia Business Finance Centre; Clean Energy Regulator;
Furthermore, there are also several other avenues for finance one may consider upon starting one’s own business:
- Self-financing
- Loans from family and friends (agreement in writing is highly recommended)
- Private stock issue
- Forming partnerships (General Partnership: all partners are individually personally responsible for their debts and all partners has the power to manage the business; Limited Partnerships: only general partners have control over management, whereas limited partners are only responsible for the debts to the extent of their investment in the business and no influence in management of the business at all; Limited Liability Partnership: all partners have limited liability but all also have power to manage the business.)
- Venture capital: supplied by the professional investors and given to new growing businesses with impressive business venture plans. Financing is done by third-party investors investing from the professionally managed fund (generated by managing the pooled money of others.)
- Angel Investors: wealthy individuals lending his/her own personal funds to help set up a business and in return generally acquires ownership equity of the business. Now a days, multiple Angel Investors are forming Angel Groups or Angel Networks engaging them in financing small businesses to a greater extent (example: Oprah’s The Angel Network.)
- Bank loans, donations, grants and subsidies are also potential sources of finance for small businesses (as seen above in various links).
Let’s speed up our ability to spread the sunshine across our planet earth by empowering solar (or other) entrepreneurs! Hurry Up, there are not that many free $25 left!
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