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PCV Entrepreneurs Meet with Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi
Last week proved to be a little chaotic, and very exciting, around here — with moving our office from the fourth to the first floor of our building where we’ll all have a little more breathing room, and then a last minute request to invite a handful of PCV entrepreneurs to meet with Senate Minority […]
Jul 08, 2015 – PCV News • Small Business Clients And Success Stories •
6 Flavors Of Microfinance
What do great food and microfinance have in common? Before last night I would have said: “not much.” But after attending Opportunity Fund’s A Taste of Microfinance event, I think I found the answer. Given the right mix of ingredients, both microfinance and food can have a big impact. Below are six local chef-entrepreneurs who […]
Jul 08, 2015 – Small Business Loans • Small Business Resources •
Small Business Is Indeed A Cause
Hat’s off to Geri Stengel, founder of Ventureneer (www.ventureneer.com) who wrote the blog post below. She’s absolutely right—Small business is indeed a VERY WORTHY cause, for all the reasons she cites: Small businesses are where jobs are created in our country today. Yet, the small business failure rate is high—more than half of all new […]
Jul 08, 2015 – PCV News •
Five things I learned yesterday about online marketing at PCV
Yesterday, Chase and I attended a ’25 Ways to Market your Website’ seminar through the SF Non-Profit Leadership Series. Here is what I thought the five most interesting take-aways were: 1) Content is STILL king. There is no replacement for creating and putting out meaningful content, dialogue and interesting ways of engaging your audience. 2) […]
Jul 08, 2015 – Small Business Advising And Mentoring • Small Business Resources •
2011 Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting: Jobs
The 2011 Clinton Global Initiative kicks off today in New York City – and the envy towards all those attending is running at fever pitch throughout the philanthropic world. It’s palpable here at PCV this year, seeing that the lead topic for discussion this year is job creation. * Watch it live here * The […]
Jul 08, 2015 – PCV News •
Advised Company Heath Ceramics Expands into SF
“It’s true… we’ve signed a long-term lease for manufacturing, warehouse and retail space in San Francisco’s vibrant and creative Northeast Mission Neighborhood. Tile will be made here moving forward, but you’ll be able to touch, feel and buy all Heath products in our accompanying retail space. We’re excited and we hope you are too. Our […]
Jul 08, 2015 – Small Business Advising And Mentoring • Small Business Clients And Success Stories •
PCV’s Event is on the Front Page of Today’s Chronicle Business Section!
From today’s Chronicle: Job growth of 9 percent is a rare feat in these times, but that’s the contribution a San Francisco business nonprofit helped bring to the local economy last year – and it could be on track to do as well or better this year. “We haven’t compiled this year’s numbers yet, so […]
Jul 08, 2015 – PCV News •
Got Health Insurance?
In March of last year, after much cajoling and arm-twisting, the president signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law. OK, so, what now? One intention of the legislation is to expand health coverage to millions of Americans via the small businesses that employ so many of them. You might wonder if there’s […]
Jul 08, 2015 – Impact Consulting •
PCV Advised Company Parties That Cook’s 12 Tips on ‘The Recipe For Business Success’
Twelve years ago, I left my corporate job to fulfill my lifelong dream of attending professional cooking school. Now I run Parties That Cook, a mobile culinary events company that stages hands-on cooking parties and corporate team-building events in four cities. We grew to a staff of over 100 by following this recipe for business […]