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President of American Prudential Capital, Brenda Standlee spoke at the Bank CEO Network recently.

The Bank CEO Network has been helping Community Bank CEOs improve their banks’ performance for 17 years. The information and ideas gained from industry experts and other CEOs can be especially useful in difficult times. If you are a community bank CEO, we invite you to contact us to see whether The Bank CEO Network might be a good option for you.

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Robert A. Hulsey, President and CEO

American National Bank of Texas, Terrell, Texas

($1.5 billion total assets)

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Eric Standlee

Warren Buffet is quoted as saying, “Be Fearful When Others Are Greedy. Be Greedy When Others Are Fearful.” Dave Ramsey said during his Town Hall event on April 22, 2009, “We don’t have to participate in the recession.”

Instead, this can be a really great time to start a business, which is antithetical to what people presume. The down market can provide lower costs of real estate in terms of leasing space and lower labor costs because people are willing to work for less or for deferred payments with the option of equity.

Larger groups of people are open to taking that chance of being an entrepreneur, because being laid off is that kick in the pants they needed to take their idea to the next level. It is our belief that these people will be the ones to help lead the country out of this recession.

However, funding a new business can be a challenge. Asking for loans from your family can be a dangerous undertaking. After all, you want to be able to go home at Thanksgiving, no matter what happens!

Things to consider include whether you have enough operating capital so that if you have clients that don’t pay their invoices for 30, 60, or 90 days, you can still operate your business.

Or you can work with American Prudential Capital who can fund your accounts receivables immediately and collect your invoices while you focus on growing your business and creating success.

Small businesses created more than 60 percent of all new jobs in the past decade; today, about half of all private-sector jobs in the United States are at small companies like Moore’s. They generate more medical and technological patents per employee than big corporations, and history shows that they’re the first to begin hiring at the end of a recession. In short, small business has long fueled our country’s growth and expansion. But that’s the insidious trap of the current credit crunch — it’s threatening to squelch American innovation, which could hold the key to our recovery.

via Room to Grow: Economic Trouble for Small Businesses | Your Money Guide | Reader’s Digest.

Our firm specializes in funding these companies.  We can help.

Eric Standlee

In a recent Reader’s Digest Article “Room to Grow: Economic Trouble for Small Businesses“:

“With banks in lockdown mode, small businesses with big potential are being stifled. Why Main Street innovators matter to us all.”
“If you want to understand what’s wrong with the economy, consider Deborah Moore. After working as a nurse-practitioner for 15 years, Moore launched a medical transcription company from her home seven years ago, mostly to be closer to her two kids. The company, called AccuStat EMR, has grown dramatically: Moore still handles transcription services, but she also helps hospitals transfer their records from paper files to electronic documents. Since the federal government wants most hospital records to be stored electronically by 2014, it’s a booming business. Moore has big clients, like the University of North Carolina Student Health Center, Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, and the Missouri Department of Corrections, and her revenue in 2008 was $35 million. Her only problem? She can’t get a loan.”

American Prudential Capital has 20 years of history on the side of businesses like this. We help these businesses grow despite their inability to get business loans.

Eric Standlee

Joe Heller of Brooke Companies, a good friend, invited me to come with him on the HCCTV talk show Dialogue Houston with Larry Payne.

This was a great opportunity to talk about the economy and about opportunities I see in the commercial business acquisition market.

Eric Standlee
VP Business Development

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