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Back to the Banks

Difficult and time-consuming as they are to find, sometimes a good old-fashioned bank loan is what you need

IF YOUR BUSINESS has been around for more than a decade, you might remember how easy it once was to borrow money. “Before the recession, I joked I could fax over a letter and the bank would give me credit,” laughs Sean Castrina, the author of 8 Unbreakable Rules for Business Start-Up Success.

That’s so 2005. Six years into the recovery from the Great Recession, many small businesses still

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