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Create Denver Week 2012
Create Denver Expo 2012
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Get Connected
Starting Your Creative Enterprise
Creative Space
Create Denver Revolving Loan Fund
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Creative Vitality Index
Listen Local: Denver's Music Scene
Policy & Research
Create Denver: A to Zine
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Starting Your Creative Enterprise
Nine Steps to Start Your Business
Congratulations on your decision to become a creative entrepreneur!
 
Click here for a roadmap to starting a business that includes a checklist of government requirements and resources. The requirements may vary according to the type of business you intend to start, but following nine steps will put you on the highway to success.

Business Assistance Center
The Business Assistance Center (BAC) 
is dedicated to supporting Denver’s small businesses by helping businesses complete government forms and comply with city, state and federal regulations. The BAC is a one-stop information center to assist small business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs navigate through licensing, permitting, regulatory issues while ofering research tools and community resources to help you successfully start, manager and run a small business. Contact BAC first when seeking information to open, expand or support your creative business.
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Resources to Finance Your Creative Enterprise

 


SUMMARY OF FINANCIAL TOOLS APPLICABLE FOR CREATIVE ENTERPRISES
Creative, for-profit businesses most often are small businesses which may benefit from or be eligible for public and private funding resources. Banks and other financial institution should be considered; however, non-traditional lending instituions may be more flexible to the needs of a creative enterprise. If you are interested in establishing or expanding a creative enterprise, you may want to consider learning more about these city-supported and private financing opportunities: 

 

City-Supported Financing
Create Denver Revolving Loan Fund 
Denver Urban Enterprise Zone
Neighborhood Business Revitalization (NBR)
Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) Program
SBA 504 Mortgage Loan Program

Funding Available from Financial Institutions
Community Development Finance Institutions and Micro Lenders
  • Rocky Mountain MicroFinance Institute
  • Colorado Enterprise Fund
  • ACCION Colorado
  • Small Business Association (SBA) Loan Programs
    Administered by Major Bank, Micro-lending Organization or Certified Development Corporation 
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Additional Resources

Small Business Resource Center
The Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce’s Small Business Services Department assists members by offering free and low-cost training programs in the areas of sales, marketing, customer service, technology, workforce and professional and management development.

Denver Public Library
Get assistance researching and writing a business or marketing plan with the help of one of the Library's many knowledgeable reference librarians.

List of Denver Lending and Support Organizations
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