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DI Squared: Dream It, Do It, Episode 5
Welcome to DI Squared….a ten-part weekly feature of KBOO News
DI Squared stands for “Dream it, Do it.”
This is the fifth in our ten-part series that’s designed to help you understand what an entrepreneur is, and whether you are or could become one. And in the course of doing that, we want to give you some of the tools you need to start a business of your own.
We’ve been focusing on minority businesses, mostly people of color. So far we’ve meet a black wine-maker, a Liberian man and his wife with a moving company, a pest control fanatic who escaped Wall Street , , and a guy who sells styling products for men….
Today we meet Dimas Diaz, a man who came to Portland in 1981 from Cuba and who now sells commercial insurance. Here’s Dimas to tell you about his long journey, from Havana to Portland . Bienvenidos, Dimos…Welcome to KBOO…
That was Dimas Diaz, a commercial insurance specialist.
Each week we introduce an organization in the Portland area that has resources to help entrepreneurs get started and succeed. We’ve told you about OAME, a Portland-based networking organization for minority businesses, OEN, another networking group and Prosper Portland, the economic development arm of the City of Portland. Today we take a leap into the federal bureaucracy and introduce you to the Small Business Administration, known as the SBA…
Our featured expert today is Marty Golden, who heads up the SBA’s Portland office. Marty gave me some background on the SBA: Oka y, ------- here’s our Question of the Week
I’VE HEARD THAT THERE’S A LOT OF PAPERWORK ASSOCIATED WITH A LOAN FROM THE SBA. IS THAT TRUE AND IF SO, WHY WHOULD I BOTHER TO APPL? I FEEL LIKE I JUST DON’T HAVE TIME FOR PAPERWORK AND RED TAPE.
Listeners, you can learn more about what the SBA has to offer by looking its web site, making contact with them and asking for the help you need. There are special programs for vets, women, minority people and others. This is a complicated organization and it may test your patience to figure out…what it can do for you…but we do have a federal government and I still believe that you can make it work for you…
Next week we meet a woman who can fix your shoes. Don’t we all need that kind of help from time to time? I know that our listeners are the kind of people who buy good shoes and keep them for decades. This lady will be good for your soles.
And we’ll tell you about a door you can walk through right here in Portland where you can get specific tools, like market research and mailing lists, that could help you be successful. It’s on North Mississipi, near the shoe repair shop, in case you want to….cool your heels.
And we’ll continue to explore what it is that makes a person likely to be successful as an entrepreneur. We keep hearing that word, passion, and next week we’ll give you a new term to chew on, that’s “proof of concept.” It’s not enough to be passionate. You have to do the hard work of testing the viability of your idea.
That’s it for DI Squared for today.
Thanks for listening. If you want to review what you’ve heard just now, go to KBOO.FM and look under evening news for today’s date---or look in KBOO”s podcast section for episodes of DI Squared.
And send your question to [email protected]. We’d like to make your questionthe featured questionfor one of our shows.
We’’ll be back in a week! Tune in then for the next episode of DI Squared----Dream it,Do it.
From KBOO News, I’m Tom Flynn
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By Thomas FlynnWelcome to DI Squared….a ten-part weekly feature of KBOO News
DI Squared stands for “Dream it, Do it.”
This is the fifth in our ten-part series that’s designed to help you understand what an entrepreneur is, and whether you are or could become one. And in the course of doing that, we want to give you some of the tools you need to start a business of your own.
We’ve been focusing on minority businesses, mostly people of color. So far we’ve meet a black wine-maker, a Liberian man and his wife with a moving company, a pest control fanatic who escaped Wall Street , , and a guy who sells styling products for men….
Today we meet Dimas Diaz, a man who came to Portland in 1981 from Cuba and who now sells commercial insurance. Here’s Dimas to tell you about his long journey, from Havana to Portland . Bienvenidos, Dimos…Welcome to KBOO…
That was Dimas Diaz, a commercial insurance specialist.
Each week we introduce an organization in the Portland area that has resources to help entrepreneurs get started and succeed. We’ve told you about OAME, a Portland-based networking organization for minority businesses, OEN, another networking group and Prosper Portland, the economic development arm of the City of Portland. Today we take a leap into the federal bureaucracy and introduce you to the Small Business Administration, known as the SBA…
Our featured expert today is Marty Golden, who heads up the SBA’s Portland office. Marty gave me some background on the SBA: Oka y, ------- here’s our Question of the Week
I’VE HEARD THAT THERE’S A LOT OF PAPERWORK ASSOCIATED WITH A LOAN FROM THE SBA. IS THAT TRUE AND IF SO, WHY WHOULD I BOTHER TO APPL? I FEEL LIKE I JUST DON’T HAVE TIME FOR PAPERWORK AND RED TAPE.
Listeners, you can learn more about what the SBA has to offer by looking its web site, making contact with them and asking for the help you need. There are special programs for vets, women, minority people and others. This is a complicated organization and it may test your patience to figure out…what it can do for you…but we do have a federal government and I still believe that you can make it work for you…
Next week we meet a woman who can fix your shoes. Don’t we all need that kind of help from time to time? I know that our listeners are the kind of people who buy good shoes and keep them for decades. This lady will be good for your soles.
And we’ll tell you about a door you can walk through right here in Portland where you can get specific tools, like market research and mailing lists, that could help you be successful. It’s on North Mississipi, near the shoe repair shop, in case you want to….cool your heels.
And we’ll continue to explore what it is that makes a person likely to be successful as an entrepreneur. We keep hearing that word, passion, and next week we’ll give you a new term to chew on, that’s “proof of concept.” It’s not enough to be passionate. You have to do the hard work of testing the viability of your idea.
That’s it for DI Squared for today.
Thanks for listening. If you want to review what you’ve heard just now, go to KBOO.FM and look under evening news for today’s date---or look in KBOO”s podcast section for episodes of DI Squared.
And send your question to [email protected]. We’d like to make your questionthe featured questionfor one of our shows.
We’’ll be back in a week! Tune in then for the next episode of DI Squared----Dream it,Do it.
From KBOO News, I’m Tom Flynn