Success stories
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Mission-Driven Café Gets Support from SBA to Continue Serving
The concept behind Bellden Café, a mission-driven café in the heart of Bellevue, came from Claire Sumadiwirya’s life. Before opening Bellden Café in 2017, Claire was on a short-term work assignment in...
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Spokane Valley Sign Manufacturer Starts and Grows Business with SBA Help
Marshon and Steve Kempf had successful careers in nursing and the United States Air Force. After serving as an F-16 pilot for 27 years, Steve retired in 2010, leaving the couple free to do whatever...
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Tumwater Woodworking Business Utilizes SBA Services to Overcome Obstacles
Joe Wadsworth started Custom Source Woodworking in 2007 after having spent more than a decade working for other businesses seeing how woodworking shops treated employees as replaceable while not...
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Closing the Door on a Dream Opens the Doors to Many More in Oregon
In 2002, Cecil DelaCruz was one of a handful of engineers and technicians tasked to oversee the shutdown of a fabrication facility when months before he was overseeing its construction. His employer...
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Sailing with the Navy to Millions in Sales
Mr. Tomas Santos-Alejandro, CEO of Advent Services, joined Advent Services as VP of Operations in 2014, before taking over. Advent Services provides cybersecurity, systems/software engineering, and...
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Sal & Mookie’s New York Pizza & Ice Cream Joint
Jeff Good and Daniel Blumenthal, Owners of Sal & Mookie’s New York Pizza & Ice Cream Joint of Jackson, Mississippi, built a business from the ground up by being focused, fearless and fun. The pair are...
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From Steel to Salsa - Nebraska Couple Open Mexican Family Restaurant in Gering, Nebraska
When asked why he left a 30+ year career in the steel industry to open Chino’s Mexican Restaurant in Gering, Nebraska, Ed Bartella had a quick answer: “I’d been doing the same thing for an awful long...
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Vaudeville Act Receives Venue Grant
By Danny Monahan Small Business Administration Vermont District Office Comedy, circus and music are hallmarks of a vaudeville show and for 12 years a Greensboro Vermont troupe’s act has stayed true to...