The Business Credit and Financing Show
In The Business Credit and Financing Show we tackle all types or topics relating to how you can get business credit and financing to start and grow your business. We also discuss marketing and growth strategies with top influencers and industry experts, to help you start and grow a profitable business.
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Mark Dusseau: How to Use AI to Make Smarter Lending Decisions
<p>Mark Dusseau is the technical co-founder of StarterStack.ai, a profitable, bootstrapped enterprise AI company based in Atlanta. StarterStack builds the operating system for private capital, deploying on-premise AI agents that automate underwriting and monitor portfolio risk in real time for non-bank lenders scaling from $50M to $500M.</p> <p>Before StarterStack, Mark was a data scientist and product leader. He started his career at Ernst & Young and later worked alongside engineers at Two Sigma.<br /> Across startups and mid-market companies, the products he has built have driven over $500M in revenue and impacted more than four million users.<...
Duane Youngblood: Make Your Business Fundable and Get Approved for the Capital You Need
<p>Duane Youngblood, known as The Success King, is the founder of Bizstart Group Inc. and creator of the CBL Wealth Blueprint. He spent 18 months studying consumer credit law to fix his own credit from scratch, then built a system that has helped over 7,000 entrepreneurs improve their credit, build fundable businesses, and access capital. With 37 years in credit and business funding, Duane teaches entrepreneurs exactly how to go from financial setbacks to building a business that can get funded.</p> <p>During the show we discuss:</p> Why a good credit score doesn't tell the whole story How credit patterns...
Rob Misheloff: How to Evaluate Equipment Financing Offers and Avoid Costly Funding Traps
<p>Rob is the Vice President and Founder of Smarter Finance USA, an equipment financing firm dedicated to helping small and mid-sized businesses secure the capital they need to purchase equipment and grow. With more than 20 years of experience in financial analysis, business valuation, and financial services, Rob founded the company to bring greater transparency and straightforward guidance to the equipment financing industry.</p> <p>Rob combines a strong financial background—with a Bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of California, Irvine, an MBA in Finance from Pepperdine University, and completion of CFA Level II—with practical, real-world lending expe...
Tom Nagar: Is Your Business Structure Helping You Grow or Holding You Back?
<p>What if the way you've structured your business to save taxes or protect your assets today is actually making it harder to get funded, grow, or build wealth tomorrow? </p> <p>As business owners we may find ourselves thinking about about entity structure, taxes, business credit, funding, and asset protection as separate decisions. The reality is that these pieces are deeply connected—and the decisions we make early on can either create opportunities for us later or limit them. </p> <p>Today we're going to talk about how to build a business structure that not only protects what we're buil...
Eric Olsen: Alternative Financing Strategies for Business Owners
<p>Eric is a business finance professional with Solutions Financial Services, where he helps business owners secure customized funding solutions to support growth, acquisitions, equipment purchases, and working capital needs. Through his work, Eric partners with entrepreneurs across a wide range of industries, helping them navigate the lending landscape and access the capital necessary to achieve their goals.</p> <p>With extensive experience in commercial finance and business lending, <br /> Eric brings a practical, solutions-oriented approach to helping companies overcome funding challenges. His expertise includes alternative lending, equipment financing, SBA financing, and structuring capital solutions that align with each client's u...
Donald Brown: How to Solve Cash Flow Problems and Find the Right Business Financing
<p>Donald Brown, Founder of Beacon Business Capital, is a strong fit for your guest lineup because his expertise spans nearly the full range of lender categories. Through Beacon Business Capital, he works across SBA loans, working capital, MCA, revenue-based lending, invoice factoring, equipment leasing, commercial real estate financing, bridge loans, startup funding, and franchise financing.</p> <p>This makes him especially valuable as a guest because he's not limited to one niche product—he understands and structures funding across multiple capital sources, which aligns directly with the broad lender ecosystem your show covers. His 25+ years in commercial finance also gi...
Laura Ries: How to Make Your Business Stand Out in a Crowded Market
<p>Laura Ries is a globally recognized brand strategist, bestselling author, and leading authority on positioning. As the Chairwoman of RIES, the consulting firm she co-founded with her father, marketing pioneer Al Ries, she has spent over three decades helping companies define their brands, dominate their categories, and achieve long-term growth through strategic positioning.</p> <p>Laura is the co-author of several influential marketing classics, including The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding and The Fall of Advertising and the Rise of PR, and the author of Visual Hammer and The Strategic Enemy. </p> <p>Her work has shaped how businesses approach b...
Candice Frazer: How to Fix Operational Inefficiencies that are Blocking Growth
<p>Candice Frazer is the revenue efficiency strategist and founder of AlphaRev, a firm that helps established businesses systematically increase revenue across retention, expansion, referrals, win-backs, and lost deals. Frazer works with CEOs, CFOs, and operators in professional services and industrial organizations to help them capture more value from their existing customers, partners, and pipeline.</p> <p>With more than 20 years of experience across revenue strategy, operations, and growth systems, Candice is known for bringing clarity to messy growth problems. Rather than pushing top of funnel tactics exclusively, she and her team at AlphaRev help teams focus on revenue<br />...
Peter Ribeiro: How to Get Fast Business Funding Without Waiting on Traditional Banks
<p>Peter Ribeiro is a seasoned entrepreneur, business finance expert, and Founder & CEO of Capital Gurus, a fintech platform dedicated to simplifying and accelerating access to business capital. Under his leadership, Capital Gurus has developed innovative lending technology that enables businesses across the United States to receive fast funding decisions and access capital efficiently.</p> <p>Prior to Capital Gurus, Peter founded and scaled US Business Funding from the ground up, ultimately achieving a successful exit in 2018. His background in business lending, funding operations, sales leadership, and financial technology has made him a respected voice in the alternative finance industry.<...
Henry Magun: How to Turn Business Credit Reporting into a Growth Engine for SMB Lenders
<p>Henry Magun is the CEO and co-founder of Hansa, a company he launched in 2023 to help businesses grow through innovative technology solutions. Prior to founding Hansa, Henry was a venture capital investor at New Enterprise Associates (NEA), where he focused on early-stage enterprise technology companies and supported founders through investment and board involvement. He also served as the New York Chapter Lead for EVCA and gained experience in product management at Nebia and expansion at WeWork. Henry holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University, where he was selected as a Mayfield Fellow through the Stanford...
