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  • ACE and Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Invite Participation in National Education Opportunity

    Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses is offering an education program for small business owners to receive intensive training and advice from business experts and peers. The program gives you the time and resources you need to develop a customized growth plan for your business. TAKE YOUR BUSINESS TO NEW HEIGHTS Identify and evaluate business opportunities Analyze financial statements…

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  • Southern & Sassy Designs

    Ever since they met at church, Michelle Duran and Tosha Pratt have kept each other in stitches – they bonded immediately over fabric-oriented handicrafts. “We both are self-taught, and we would help each other,” said Duran. “We had a dream for a long time of opening a business together, and we finally decided we’d waited…

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  • Papa Joe’s

    “We use a different kind of wood process, and a rub concocted from 17 herbs and spices,” said Joe Parks, co-founder, with Christine Parks, of Papa Joe’s BBQ Pit restaurant and catering business in Decatur. For six generations, the Parks family has been legendary for its barbecue – a mainstay of church picnics, family gatherings,…

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  • Shenanigans

    Shenanigans lives up to its rollicking name, with creative food, quality libations, and a convivial atmosphere. However, owners Deb Rowe and Tommy and Andrea Lee take their hospitality mission seriously, and they work to extend it to their community in Dahlonega and beyond. “Shenanigans excels in community involvement,” said ACE loan officer Courtney Lynn. The…

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  • FUNDING YOUR BUSINESS….WHAT BANKERS WANT YOU TO KNOW!

    NAWBO March 2014 Chapter Program FUNDING YOUR BUSINESS….WHAT BANKERS WANT YOU TO KNOW! Panel:   Catherine Cattles, VP Market Leader, BB&T Cynthia Mayer, VP, PNC Bank Maria Peck, Small Business Loan Officer, Access to Capital for Entrepreneurs at ACE Capital  AGENDA: 11:30-12:00 Open Networking & Table Networking 12:00-12:10:  Announcements 12:10 -12:50:  Guest Speaker 12:50-1:00: Q&A…

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  • Money for Entrepreneurs- ACE on Georgia Works Radio

    Capital; it is the lifeblood for any business, and especially important for entrepreneurs. This week on Georgia Works Radio we look at a Georgia based company that specializes in micro-loans to start-up businesses. Since 1999, Access to Capital for Entrepreneurs (ACE) has made more than $21 million in loans, helping to create or save 3,400…

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  • ‘Amazing Grace’- Fricks honored as “Influential Georgian”

    (CLEVELAND — Special Edition Newsletter by Candice Dyer) — At the end of every year, Georgia Trend magazine recognizes the top “100 Most Influential Georgians,” a list of visionaries and power-brokers that has included Jimmy Carter, John Lewis, and Ted Turner, along with other game-changing politicos, university presidents, philanthropists, and the occasional rock star (Chuck Leavell, Zac Brown).…

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  • Grace Fricks, ACE President and CEO named one of the Top “100 Most Influential Georgians”

    100 MOST INFLUENTIAL GEORGIANS Georgia Trend’s annual listing of the state’s most powerful and influential citizens who affect the lives and livelihoods of all Georgians. Plus, a roster of Notable Georgians. For more on this years most influential, please click here.

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