Hi there.
I'm looking for money to fund our small business idea. We don't have much savings or collateral so we have to look at grants, forgivable loans and or executive loans to start. I am working on a VERY comprehensive business plan and have been for a long time now.
We have a great business idea (a vintage online comic book store). I am an expert in this field and have been for over 36 years and am very passionate about comic books.
This isn't something we just started, it's been going on for years growing more and more everyday. It isn't just a hobby it's going to be my full time career so we've been working on it every day for years now.
We just about had it going in the last few months but our financing fell through 70% and it was not enough to start responsibly so now I am working on finishing our business proposal (a tough job when you have to do it yourself and you've never done one before).
Grants are handed out all the time from my research and I've actually had one for $8000.00 when I was in a band to record one of our albums but this is a different scenerio alltogether.
Still, I'm confident with our elaborate business plan, our passion, our experience and our confidence, we will eventually win over the right person who will be able to fund us and we can get on with the rest of our lives.
Thanx for the advice so far, I'll probably have more questions over time but I welcome any more advice as well as the ones already given.
Hank.
P.S. We have considered the cheapo templates for an e-commerce site and nothing even comes close to what we need and we aren't going to start off just like 80% of the other smaller stores because we need to break into the 20% of the ones who are doing this for a living in order to survive and thrive!
I didn't mean that in a snobby way, I just mean we want to be the bigger fish in the pond rather than the guppies....
This site is similar to what we want to do and be.
http:
Worldwide Comics Start Page