Doing Business in Florida
See also Legal and Tax information for Florida Businesses
General Links for the Florida Business:
See Florida Small Business Development Center Network and Florida Division of Corporations (Sunbiz) and Florida Dept of Business and Professional Regulation, Licensing and myflorida.com and Florida New Hire Reporting Center and Florida Dept of Revenue and Florida Dept of Agriculture and Consumer Services (an entire A-Z listing of Florida govt services)
Inventor Assistance : Tampa Bay Inventors Council and Edison Inventors Association and Invetors Society of South Florida and
High Tech Business Sites: EFlorida OrlandoBO TampaBayPart BusinessJTampaB ClearwaterCC StPeteCC ForidaHighTechCouncil USF TampaBayBeachesCC BioFlorida TBIC SouthWest Fl NWFlorida JaxVille OrlandoEDC Tampa Bay US EDC Florida Research Consortium Tampa Bay Technology Forum Tampa Bay CC USF Center For Entrepreneurship (links) Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (Orlando) Scripps/Florida Business Development Board - Palm Beach County's and The Burnham Institute and Florida blood Centers Emory (includes a good listing of IP forms and reportedly a grant matching program for investors in new companeys). Georgia Medical center Authority
Financing and Venture Capital: Florida Biomedical Research Program and Florida Finance Network and Florida Finance Corporation and Florida First Capital Finance Corporation and Florida Venture forum and iCoast and eflorida and University of Central Florida Venture Lab and Florida high tech corridorand Florida Export Finance Corporation and
Help for Minority Business Owners: Hispanic Business Initiative Fund and See Florida Black Business Investment Board and See National Women's Business Council and
Assistance with Export transactions: Florida Export Finance Corporation
SBA Loans: See Small Business Administration
7(a) Business Loans up to 2million): This is SBAs primary load program. Loan proceeds can be sued for fixed assets, working capital, inventory, seasonal line of credit or, for compelling reasons for debt repayment.
SBA express (up to 350 k): Lenders use their own forms and prcesses to approve laons in amounts up to 350k. Interest rates are tied to the primer rate, but are negotiated with the lender.
Community express (up to 250k): this pilot program is available in geographic areas serving primarly low to moderate income entrepreneurs.
504 Loan program: this program uses fixed, long term financing to finance fixed assets for profit business with less than 7.5 million in et work and less than 2.5 million in after tax profits. The money can be sued for asets such as land, builidngs, long term machinery and equipment.
Prototype Design :
TampaTechnik (designs prototypes for inventors)
