Target Funding: A Proven System to Get the Money and Resources You Need to Start or Grow Your Business

Kedma Ough, MBA, is a nationally renowned business coach and funding expert, adviser to independent inventors, winner of the Small Business Administration (SBA) Small Business Champion of the Year Award, and successful entrepreneur and inventor. She has guided thousands of entrepreneurs to a wide range of funding opportunities, and has shown thousands more how to fund their ventures through her target funding strategies.

Foreword
Preface
Introduction

PART ONE
The New American Dream
A Business of One’s Own
1 The Opportunity
Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Small Business Ownership
2 The Challenge
It’s All About the Cash
3 The Solution
Target Funding

PART TWO
Diversity Funding
4 Funding for Veteran-Owned Businesses
5 Funding for Businesses Owned by People with Disabilities
6 Funding for Minority-Owned Businesses
7 Funding for Women-Owned Businesses
8 Funding for Other Diversity Groups

PART THREE
Community-Based Funding
9 Economic Development Funding
10 Industry Cluster Funding
11 Community Development Financial Institutions

PART FOUR
Funding for Inventions and Innovation
12 Funding for Independent Inventors
13 Funding for Research and Technology Ventures

PART FIVE
Funding for Startups and Small Businesses
14 Business Advice Funding
15 Grants for Startups and Small Businesses
16 Funding for a Franchise
17 Government Procurement–Based Funding

PART SIX
Funding for the Unbankable
18 Matched Savings Funding
19 Incubator- and Accelerator-Based Funding

PART SEVEN
Ready, Set, Fund!
20 Creating Your Target Funding Map
21 3-2-1 Target Funding Launch!

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index