Meet Our Clients: Subpar Miniature Golf

Subpar Miniature Golf is an indoor miniature golf course and arcade founded by Michael Taft and David Abernathy. They opened their original location in Alameda in August 2012. Since then, they closed that location and opened a new one at Ghirardelli Square in San Francisco in June 2018. At Subpar, mini golf is the focus…

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Advising Corner: Loan Readiness

Are you a small business owner seeking a loan from Main Street Launch, but have some questions about the process? Featured here is loan readiness advice from three experts: Karla De Leon, Senior Vice President – San Francisco Market Manager Adrian Gomez Zavala, Vice President – Relationship Manager Joshua Marquez, Program Manager – Veteran Launch…

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Resource for your business: Pacific Community Ventures

Main Street Launch is proud to partner with Pacific Community Ventures, a nonprofit business lender on a mission to create jobs for working people and make markets work for social good. They achieve their mission through a combination of fair lending, free mentorship, impact investing consulting services, and field building research. Featured here is an…

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Meet Our Clients: Bar Shiru

Bar Shiru is a hi-fi vinyl listening music bar in Oakland, and the first of its kind in the Bay Area. It was founded by business partners Shirin Raza and Daniel Gahr, who also happen to be wife and husband. Shirin and Dan met in 2008 while working at Current TV. Both of them were…

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2019 Circular Summit

The Alliance for Community Development has been using Alice as a platform for collaboration in support of the Bay Area’s small business ecosystem. We’d like to pass along an exclusive invitation from Alice to their fourth annual Circular Summit for high growth women entrepreneurs. Alice is bringing its annual Circular Summit to Sonoma County, CA,…

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